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Failing the Future - A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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Failing the Future - A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny's Failing the
Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first
Century is drawn from the author's experience as a distinguished
teacher, a prize-winning scholar of American literature, a feminist
thinker, and an innovative administrator at a major public
university. In chapters that range from the changing structure of
the American family and its impact on both curriculum and
university benefits policies to recommendations for overhauling the
culture of decision making on campus, this former Dean of the
College of Humanities at the University of Arizona explores the
present state of higher education and offers a sobering view of
what lies ahead. In this volume Kolodny explains the reasons for
the financial crisis in higher education today and boldly addresses
the challenges that remain ignored, including rising birthrates,
changing demographics both on campus and across the country, the
accelerating globalization of higher education and advanced
research, and the necessity for greater interdisciplinarity in
undergraduate education. Moreover, while sensitive to the complex
burdens placed on faculty today, Kolodny nonetheless reveals how
the professoriate has allowed itself to become vulnerable to public
misperceptions and to lampooning by the media. Not simply a book
about current problems and future challenges, Failing the Future is
rich with practical solutions and workable programs for change.
Among her many insights, Kolodny offers a thorough defense of the
role of tenure and outlines a new set of procedures to ensure its
effective implementation; she proposes a structure for an
"Antifeminist Intellectual Harassment Policy"; and she provides a
checklist of family-sensitive policies universities can offer their
staff, faculty, and administrators. Kolodny calls on union leaders,
campus communities, policymakers, and the general public to work
together in unprecedented partnerships. Her goal, as she states in
a closing coda, is to initiate a revitalized conversation about
public education. This book should be required reading for all
those concerned with the future of higher education in this
country-from college trustees to graduate students entering the
professoriate, from faculty to university administrators, from
officers of campus-based unions to education policymakers.
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