THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: A HISTORY
Book ID/图书代码： 13560015B81538
English Summary/英文概要： One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than 150 countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting.
With The University of Chicago: A History, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College since 1992, presents a deeply researched and comprehensive history of the university. Boyer has mined the archives, exploring the school’s complex and sometimes controversial past to set myth and hearsay apart from fact. The result is a fascinating narrative of a legendary academic community, one that brings to light the nature of its academic culture and curricula, the experience of its students, its engagement with Chicago’s civic community, and the conditions that have enabled the university to survive and sustain itself through decades of change.
Boyer’s extensive research shows that the University of Chicago’s identity is profoundly interwoven with its history, and that history is unique in the annals of American higher education. After a little-known false start in the mid-nineteenth century, it achieved remarkable early successes, yet in the 1950s it faced a collapse of undergraduate enrollment, which proved fiscally debilitating for decades. Throughout, the university retained its fierce commitment to a distinctive, intense academic culture marked by intellectual merit and free debate, allowing it to rise to international acclaim. Today it maintains a strong obligation to serve the larger community through its connections to alumni, to the city of Chicago, and increasingly to its global community.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作为世界上最具影响力的几个高等教育机构中，芝加哥大学有着一个有力和独特的身份它的名字就等同于智慧力量。随着近17万校友生活和工作在超过150个国家，其影响是深远且持久的。
随着本书， John W. Boyer，自1992年以来的该院长，呈现了一个深入研究过的与全面的大学历史。Boyer已经开启了档案馆，探索学校的复杂和有时有政绩的过去使得神话和道听途说远离事实。其结果是一个传奇学术团体的迷人故事，一个能揭示其学术文化和课程的性质，他学生的经历，它对于芝加哥大学的公民社会的参与和舍得这所大学生存和维持下去超过几十年间的变化。
Boyer的大量研究表明芝加哥大学的身份是深刻地与历史交织着，并其历史在美国高等教育史上是独一无二的。在十九世纪中叶的一个小有名气的抢跑之后，它取得了骄人的早期成功，直到19世纪50年代它面临着一个本科生招生的崩溃，这证明了几十年间的财政衰弱。自始至终，大学保留了对于标志着学术价值和自由辩论的鲜明与强烈的学术文化的强势承诺，使其上升到了国际赞誉。现如今，它通过与校友的联系来保持服务于更大的社会的强大义务，为芝加哥这个城市，并日益向全球的社会各界。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：“摆在我们面前的问题是如何在精神上成为一家，而并不一定在于意见上”。(William Rainey Harper,芝加哥大学的第一任校长）
“如果第一个教职员工团体在帐中会面，这仍然将是一个伟大的大学。”(Robert Maynard Hutchins, 前任芝加哥大学校长）
“The question before us is how to become one in spirit, not necessarily in opinion.”(William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago)
“If the first faculty had met in a tent, this still would have been a great university.”(Robert Maynard Hutchins, former University of Chicago president)
About the Author/作者介绍： John W. Boyer是芝加哥大学历史系的Martin A. Ryerson杰出贡献教授。在2012年，他五次连任为大学校长。一位研究Habsburg王朝历史的专家，他已经写过三本关于奥地利历史的书籍，其中包括最近的《Karl Lueger (1844–1910): Christlichsoziale Politik als Beruf.》。
John W. Boyer is the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in History at the University of Chicago. In 2012, he was appointed to a fifth term as Dean of the College. A specialist in the history of the Habsburg Empire, he has written three books on Austrian history, including, most recently, Karl Lueger (1844–1910): Christlichsoziale Politik als Beruf.
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