Tabla de Contenidos: “…The politics of colonial education --Towards educational reform: the Cold War, decolonization, and the Carnegie Corporation, 1952-60 --The Ashby Commission, regionalism, and university education in the 1960's --Centralization of universities and national integration, 1970-79: the legacy of the Nigerian civil war --The second republic and the burden of expansion,1979–83: free education, science and technology, and quota system --Rationalization Policy: the IMF/World Bank and structural adjustment program, 1984–90 --Crisis of nationhood: funding issues, socio-political Instability, and private university education, 1990–2000…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…7 The Academy Marks Its Semicentennial -- ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (1901-1907) -- State of Science at the Turn of the Century -- Academy Efforts on Behalf of the Metric System -- Efforts for the Extension of Forest Conservation -- Academy Report on the Philippines -- New Fields in Academy Membership -- Hale and International Cooperation -- IRA REMSEN (1907-1913) -- The Committee on Scientific Work under the Government -- The National Conservation Commission -- Preoccupation with Internal Affairs -- Steps Toward an "Academy Home -- Plans for a Commemorative History -- The Semicentennial Anniversary -- Hale's Vision for the Future -- 8 World War I and the Creation of the National Research Council -- WILLIAM HENRY WELCH (1913-1917) -- Government Requests to the Academy -- Organization and Staffing of the National Research Council -- Resignation of Welch and Election of Walcott -- CHARLES DOOLITTLE WALCOTT (1917-1923) -- The Academy and the Wartime Research Council -- Funding of the Academy's War Effort -- Military Research Problems -- Postwar Plans -- The Executive Order of 1918 -- The Carnegie Corporation Grant -- National Research Fellowships -- International Research Council -- 9 The Research Council's Permanent Status and the Academy's New Home -- Postwar Organization of the Research Council -- NRC Policy, Procedures, and Relation to the Academy -- Activities of the Research Council -- The Academy Acquires a Home -- 10 The Twenties: New Horizons in Science -- ALBERT ABRAHAM MICHELSON (1923-1927) -- Relations between the Academy and the National Research Council -- Engineering and Industrial Research -- Pioneering in the Field of Conservation -- Efforts on Behalf of Basic Research -- The Committee on Government Problems -- THOMAS HUNT MORGAN (1927-1931) -- The Committee on Oceanography -- Weather Forecasting -- Efforts Toward Calendar Reform…”

“…The research for this book was made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Terence McNamee is Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center Scholars, based in South Africa. …”

“…Mellon Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the MIT Press, and the Digital Publications Initiative of Brown University. …”