Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book
challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about
America's colleges and universities and instead critically examine
important questions facing them in today's troubled world. Each
chapter presents divergent perspectives, that is, "pro" and "con"
views, in the hope of stimulating reasoned dialogue among students,
faculty, administrators, and the public at large. Readers will
explore how internal factors in the academic community often
interact with external social, economic, and political influences
to produce conflictual results. They will see that academe is
hardly value-neutral and inevitably political. This book urges them
to transcend strident political persuasion and instead engage in
the careful analysis needed to make colleges better. The text
provides in-depth appraisal of key topics of controversy: the
purposes of higher education, liberal education, academic freedom,
political correctness, tenure, shared governance, faculty workload,
admissions tests, student learning, Greek life, the worth of
college, equity and social justice, athletics, student entitlement,
technology and distance instruction, and college amenities. The
book will appeal to students, faculty, staff, and all those
interested in the future of higher education. It is especially
useful for courses in contemporary issues in higher education,
foundations of higher education, higher education and society,
college student development, and the organization and
administration of higher education.
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