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The Future of American Higher Education - How Today's Public Intellectuals Frame the Debate (Hardcover)
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The Future of American Higher Education - How Today's Public Intellectuals Frame the Debate (Hardcover)
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This impressive anthology presents the reader with an introduction
to a gallery of public intellectuals through the critical eyes of a
wide array of contributing writers from various academic fields.
Both the latter and the public intellectuals themselves are
responding to the state of American higher education. Importantly,
most of them (there are a few public intellectuals in the book who
cling closer to the status quo) do not separate colleges and
universities from the political, economic, and social currents of
American society. They attack the realities of growing social
inequality, the intractable presence of institutional racism, and
the recurrent reliance on the free market as the arbiter of value.
Public intellectuals assess the impact of these social factors on
the organization and practices of contemporary American higher
education. They force the reader to consider serious challenges to
the current arrangement of higher learning and, as such, they ask
us to assess the efficacy of their respective perspectives. Do they
present the reader with insight or idealism, pathways or dead ends?
This compendium provides an abundance of ideas for higher education
leaders, policy makers, faculty members, trustees and governmental
officials as well as social theorists and graduate students
interested in higher education careers.""-Richard Guarasci,
President Emeritus of Wagner College Just as our society is
polarized, higher education is no less divided as to its mission
and purpose, whether it should be preparing students for employment
or for engagement as citizens, whether it should be corporatist and
profit-driven or promote intellectual curiosity and independent
thinking, and whether it should pursue a neoliberal agenda or
promote a liberal education. Whose scholarship, culture and
epistemologies should be validated? Should it be a private or a
public good? Preserve tenure or erode it? What role should colleges
and universities play in addressing economic inequality and
systemic racism? The answers to these questions are critical for
the future of our society as our universities and colleges are the
nurseries of the values and philosophies that shape it. The
chapters in this book review the contributions of seventeen public
intellectuals who have been at the forefront of these issues and
significantly contributed to these debates. Each describes the
genesis of each scholar's ideas and presents and critiques his or
her core insights and arguments. The seventeen public intellectuals
represent a spectrum of opinion, from the conservative to the
progressive. At this pivotal moment when much of higher education
is in economic crisis, and public trust in it has been eroded, this
book offers a robust entry point for considering the options and
directions ahead for anyone in a leadership position. The book will
also be valuable for higher education courses to stimulate debate
about these critical issues and introduce readers to the seminal
thinkers in the field. Public Intellectuals Presented Stanley
Aronowitz Michael Berube Marc Bousquet Patricia Hill Collins Lori
Patton Davis William Deresiewicz Stanley Fish Marybeth Gasman Henry
Giroux Sara Goldrick-Rabb Amy Gutmann Russell Jacoby Randall
Kennedy David Kirp David F. Labaree Christopher Newfield Michael
Roth
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