The Creation of the Future by Frank Rhodes,
Cornell University Press, $29.95, ISBN 080143937X
WHAT has been society’s most significant creation in the past thousand years?
The university, says Frank Rhodes. With that supremely confident statement, this
Cornell University emeritus president begins his comprehensive review of the
future of American research universities. They are, he says, crucibles in which
the future is forged.
He praises their success at promoting research and teaching, which he
believes is a consequence of those two activities being pursued in the same
places by the same people. But there’s acres of room for improvement. Rhodes…
