The university today is under attack from all sides. Parents and
students resent the escalating costs of education and wonder where
the money is being spent. Aspiring scholars feel betrayed by an
institution that prepares them for nonexistent jobs. Critics on the
right condemn the teachers who neglect "the canon" while critics on
the left condemn the creeping corporatism on campus. Politicians
seek greater control over the conduct of research and add new
conditions to the use of government funds. Worst of all, the
academics are increasingly uneasy in an environment that fosters
competition, discourages cooperation, and has made "publish or
perish" a condition of survival.
Donald Kennedy, the former president of Stanford University and
currently a member of its faculty, has been at the front lines of
the issues confounding the academy today. In this important new
book, he brings his experience and concern to bear on the present
state of the university. He examines teaching, graduate training,
research, and their ethical context in the research university.
Aware of the numerous pressures that academics face, from the
pursuit of open inquiry in the midst of culture wars, to confusion
and controversy over the ownership of ideas, to the scramble for
declining research funds and facilities, he explores the whys and
wherefores of academic misconduct, be it scholarly, financial, or
personal.
Kennedy suggests that meaningful reform cannot take place until
more rigorous standards of academic responsibility--to students,
the university, and the public--are embraced by both faculty and
the administration. With vision and compassion, he offers an
important antidote to recent attacks fromwithout that decry the
university and the professoriate, and calls upon the college
community to counter those attacks by looking within and fulfilling
its duties.
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