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They can walk through fire. They would sacrifice their own lives to
save yours. In the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance, Thoughts on Fire is a meditation on how to live a life
that matters. Drawing on his dual life as a philosophy professor
and firefighter, Dr. Frank begins a journey not just into the fire,
but inside himself. The lessons of this voyage are not just about
axes and hoses but hope, forgiveness and love. As a professor and a
firefighter, Dr. McCluskey shifts gears easily between the
metaphysical and the macho, pontificating in a pin striped suit by
day and plunging into a smoky, flaming house by night. -The New
York Times It is a book that you will want to read again and again.
It is a remarkable story that you will want to share with those you
love. -Dr. Robert Schachat, author of The Seven Conditions of Trust
Thoughts on Fire is a book that is at once entertaining and
enlightening -Dr. John Briggs, author of The Seven Life Lessons of
Chaos
What is spirituality? Does it enable us to be better persons? Is
spirituality related to religion? These days, is it even relevant?
On college campuses, does it promote student well-being? Does it
further moral growth? Can spirituality make a difference in
healthcare? What about social justice and service to the
marginalized? This rich collection of essays by respected scholars
and practitioners in diverse fields in academic, healthcare, social
justice, and interfaith contexts addresses these questions in
strikingly profound and meaningful ways. Their voices offer
alternatives to the prevailing notion of spirituality as a purely
private matter, and make a case for living spiritually through deep
and genuine engagement with others, bridging our inherent and
original fault-line of Self and Other. Their keen observations
resuscitate the spiritual fabric of defiance against and liberation
from forces of oppression which show their face not only through
chronic inequities and social injustice but in consumer
capitalism's grip on our souls. This volume's dispatch to our minds
and hearts is timely in an age of looming cynicism, pessimism,
fear, and distrust. In carving out a renewed sense of what lies at
the heart of living a life of the spirit, or spirituality, it
offers an antidote to our widespread hermeneutic of suspicion. None
of the authors claims to encapsulate one, pure meaning of the
spiritual. Yet they share one collective voice: spirituality is
indeed genuine when it calls forth compassion and wears the worn
and tangled face of humaneness, freeing ourselves from the prison
of ego. Here we find messages of hope, much needed in a time when
our society seems increasingly shadowed by dark clouds. These
essays remind us of what's right in the world.
There has been growing talk about the "crisis" in higher education.
Politicians are calling for major overhauls of both public and
private colleges. Tuition is still outpacing inflation even in the
face of a tsunami of bad press. The public is rapidly losing
confidence in the ability of higher education to provide the tools
today's students require. There has been a flood of books in
response to these criticisms from both the left and the right.
Authors from inside and outside of the academy have offered their
diagnosis. In The Idea of the Digital University, the authors argue
that the forces that have brought about these changes are the very
tools we need to solve them. They show how the university has to
adapt to the digital age while keeping what is most essential to
its mission. In 1852 John Cardinal Newman wrote The Idea of the
University which has been required reading ever since. This book
begins with the issues that he dealt with and updates the
discussion for the digital age. Employing history, philosophy and
survey data, the authors show the impact that digital technologies
have had on higher education. By going back to the works of such
thinkers as Aristotle, Kant and Newman, the authors show how the
essence of the university can not only survive but also thrive in
the new digital age. If colleges create, store and share
information does it not make sense that the digital revolution
(which changes the way we create, store and share information)
would shake the university to its very foundation? The authors, who
have together spent more than seventy years in higher education,
give us a blueprint for what can be saved and what needs to change.
Controversial, polemical and expansive this roadmap for the future
will be sure to make a good read for those interested in the future
of higher education. From Kirkus Review: A sweeping study of the
university structure, emphasizing how higher education must evolve
in a digital era. The mass adoption of online technology has
pervaded every manner of business; universities are no different.
In fact, as McCluskey and Winter suggest in this probing work, "the
digital revolution is changing the very DNA of higher education."
Still, "the university has come late to the digital revolution,"
and the authors explore the reasons why. In text that's both
interesting to read and carefully researched, McCluskey and Winter
discuss the role and structure of the university in general,
lending a historical perspective while continuously drawing
comparisons and contrasts between the traditional and digital
university. The authors address in detail the most obvious evidence
of online influence-the growth of online courses-but they pay equal
attention to broader implications: the opening up of new avenues
for library research, the shift away from paper-based student
records and the fundamental change in the way professors teach
students. The authors often return to the notion that "Big Data
will impact how the university sees its students and their
learning." McCluskey and Winter cite Target, the retail chain, as
being exemplary in its use of customer data, and they directly
relate those efforts to the ways in which universities will have to
use "Big Data" in the future "to see where education is succeeding
and where we have work to do." The authors also raise the issue of
nonprofit versus for-profit universities, the latter having
expanded largely because of online course offerings. Rather than
take a position in favor or against for-profits, however, the
authors diplomatically discuss some of the ways the nonprofit and
for-profit institutions could learn from each other. Finally, the
authors offer their own perceptive assessment on what the digital
university might someday look like, postulating about dashboards,
data warehouses and digital report cards. Comprehensive, insightful
and visionary.
They can walk through fire. They would sacrifice their own lives to
save yours. In the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance, Thoughts on Fire is a meditation on how to live a life
that matters. Drawing on his dual life as a philosophy professor
and firefighter, Dr. Frank begins a journey not just into the fire,
but inside himself. The lessons of this voyage are not just about
axes and hoses but hope, forgiveness and love. As a professor and a
firefighter, Dr. McCluskey shifts gears easily between the
metaphysical and the macho, pontificating in a pin striped suit by
day and plunging into a smoky, flaming house by night. -The New
York Times It is a book that you will want to read again and again.
It is a remarkable story that you will want to share with those you
love. -Dr. Robert Schachat, author of The Seven Conditions of Trust
Thoughts on Fire is a book that is at once entertaining and
enlightening -Dr. John Briggs, author of The Seven Life Lessons of
Chaos
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