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Contradictions in a Community of Scholars: The Cohesion-Accuracy Tradeoff
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 6, Number 4, Summer 1983
- pp. 253-267
- 10.1353/rhe.1983.0008
- Article
- Additional Information
The phrase “community of scholars” contains a contradiction. Actions that strengthen the community weaken the scholarship. And actions that strengthen the scholarship weaken the community. Continuing tradeoffs between community and scholarship produce many of the unique organizational properties that universities exhibit.