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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
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.
Student Activism in the Academy: Its Struggles and Promise is a
wide-ranging, provocative survey of student activism in America's
colleges and universities that critically analyzes the contentious
problems and progress of a movement that has stirred public
reaction in and out of academe. Its fundamental purpose is to
engage diverse publics in both reasoned and passionate reflection
and soul searching on vital issues that surround campus protest.
Thus, the essays in this volume respect the need to consider how to
weigh freedom, fairness, safety, and protection inside and outside
the walls of ivy. Their authors ponder the big picture of student
activism, including: strategies for student activism the role of
social media and technology legal questions on campus speech the
dilemmas of political correctness generational differences among
student activists and various forms of student protest related to
race, class, gender, and disabilities. Both professional and
student voices prompt us to better comprehend academic realities
with more hope and wisdom. Administrators, faculty, students, and
student life personnel in higher education-indeed, all those
interested in today's colleges and universities--will want to
participate in the timely and productive dialogue within these
pages.
Student Activism in the Academy: Its Struggles and Promise is a
wide-ranging, provocative survey of student activism in America's
colleges and universities that critically analyzes the contentious
problems and progress of a movement that has stirred public
reaction in and out of academe. Its fundamental purpose is to
engage diverse publics in both reasoned and passionate reflection
and soul searching on vital issues that surround campus protest.
Thus, the essays in this volume respect the need to consider how to
weigh freedom, fairness, safety, and protection inside and outside
the walls of ivy. Their authors ponder the big picture of student
activism, including: strategies for student activism the role of
social media and technology legal questions on campus speech the
dilemmas of political correctness generational differences among
student activists and various forms of student protest related to
race, class, gender, and disabilities. Both professional and
student voices prompt us to better comprehend academic realities
with more hope and wisdom. Administrators, faculty, students, and
student life personnel in higher education-indeed, all those
interested in today's colleges and universities--will want to
participate in the timely and productive dialogue within these
pages.
Today's colleges and universities are facing mounting criticism
from both internal and external interest groups and constituencies.
While strident calls for reform accelerate, resources for higher
education have weakened. Thus, demands to improve college education
abound amidst hard times. This timely book, Making College Better:
Views from the Top, offers more rational and practical responses to
that public outcry by allowing college presidents and chancellors
from a wide variety of postsecondary institutions the opportunity
to address, in measured ways, many complex issues and how they
might be untangled. Moreover, these academic leaders provide
possible remedies to make college better through more strategic
policies and practices. Making College Better will appeal to all
those interested in the future of higher education, including
students, college administrators and other higher education
personnel, parents, legislators and other officials, and public and
private sector leaders. It is especially useful for courses in the
organization and administration of higher education, the college
presidency, contemporary issues in higher education, foundations of
higher education, higher education and society, and college student
development.
Higher education and society are becoming increasingly intertwined.
Both act as a transmitter of culture, yet many colleges and
universities also ideally seek to create a more perfectible society
and more enlightened, engaged citizens. When the connections
between social structures and post-secondary education are closely
entangled, the university's aims can take on a contentious struggle
for identity in a vexing web of competing external interests -
especially in light of scarce economic resources, corporate
pressures, technological questions, and globalizing trends. Higher
Education and Society weighs the urgent question of how society and
higher education influence each other. How the latter responds to
that unsettled issue may well determine whether colleges and
universities chart a more self-reflective path or one of rising
deference to societal contingencies. This book is essential for all
those who study and work in today's colleges - and for all those
who seek a better education for their children, the nation, and the
world. It is especially recommended for courses in higher education
and society, contemporary issues in higher education, the
philosophy of higher education, academic issues in higher
education, leadership in higher education, and globalization and
higher education. The book is also useful for the preparation of
faculty development programs in colleges and universities.
Today's colleges and universities are facing mounting criticism
from both internal and external interest groups and constituencies.
While strident calls for reform accelerate, resources for higher
education have weakened. Thus, demands to improve college education
abound amidst hard times. This timely book, Making College Better:
Views from the Top, offers more rational and practical responses to
that public outcry by allowing college presidents and chancellors
from a wide variety of postsecondary institutions the opportunity
to address, in measured ways, many complex issues and how they
might be untangled. Moreover, these academic leaders provide
possible remedies to make college better through more strategic
policies and practices. Making College Better will appeal to all
those interested in the future of higher education, including
students, college administrators and other higher education
personnel, parents, legislators and other officials, and public and
private sector leaders. It is especially useful for courses in the
organization and administration of higher education, the college
presidency, contemporary issues in higher education, foundations of
higher education, higher education and society, and college student
development.
The last half century has created deep tensions in how we analyze
educational and social change. Educators, policymakers, and
concerned citizens have had to cope with competing belief systems
in evaluating and acting upon school policies and practices. This
illuminating book untangles many of the roots of those persistent
debates that have divided the nation for so long. It offers readers
a critical opportunity to reflect on our continuing ideological
struggles by examining popular books that have made a difference in
educational discourse. The editor has specifically selected key
books on social and educational controversies that speak to wide
audiences. They frame contextual issues that so-called "school
reformers" have often neglected - much to the detriment of any real
educational progress. Ultimately, this text is meant to stir our
consciences, to disorder our certainties, and to compel us to treat
education and culture with both reason and passion. It is highly
relevant for courses in social foundations of education, school
reform, educational policy studies, philosophy of education,
history of education, politics of education, curriculum studies,
and teacher education.
Higher education and society are becoming increasingly intertwined.
Both act as a transmitter of culture, yet many colleges and
universities also ideally seek to create a more perfectible society
and more enlightened, engaged citizens. When the connections
between social structures and post-secondary education are closely
entangled, the university's aims can take on a contentious struggle
for identity in a vexing web of competing external interests -
especially in light of scarce economic resources, corporate
pressures, technological questions, and globalizing trends. Higher
Education and Society weighs the urgent question of how society and
higher education influence each other. How the latter responds to
that unsettled issue may well determine whether colleges and
universities chart a more self-reflective path or one of rising
deference to societal contingencies. This book is essential for all
those who study and work in today's colleges - and for all those
who seek a better education for their children, the nation, and the
world. It is especially recommended for courses in higher education
and society, contemporary issues in higher education, the
philosophy of higher education, academic issues in higher
education, leadership in higher education, and globalization and
higher education. The book is also useful for the preparation of
faculty development programs in colleges and universities.
America's undergraduates truly represent a mind-boggling diversity.
Today's College Students: A Reader looks at a wide variety of
student groups and identities, which sets it apart from other texts
on contemporary college students that do not cover such a broad
spectrum. The editors and contributors also invite students, their
instructors, and other college/university practitioners to be
mindful of the crucial, yet sometimes overlooked, connection
between extra-curricular campus activities and learning. Sustaining
educational moments throughout the undergraduate experience, in and
out of the classroom, is why colleges exist. This volume thus
reminds us that both social interaction and individual critical
reflection are vital collegiate processes, especially in an age of
consumerism and the McDonaldization of higher education.
Ultimately, the text seeks to reinforce and augment the rich
diversity that can make college more rewarding for us all. It is
especially useful for courses devoted to today's college students
and diversity, the multicultural university, college student
development, and student affairs administration.
Today's colleges and universities face countless uncharted
challenges and possibilities. They are often prized as national
treasures, yet, in tough economic times, they are becoming a major
focus of contestation and controversy. This richly comprehensive
survey takes a frank look at both polarities of the puzzles of
academe. Presenting multiple perspectives on a wide array of
crucial issues, the book features realistic representations of
students, faculty, curriculum, administration, and the
socio-cultural conditions that shape higher education. The incisive
essays are written by practitioners on the front lines of the
academy's battle to validate and sustain its core principles in a
complex, rapidly evolving world. They afford valuable insights into
the postsecondary scene for all who seek to nurture its development
in these uncertain, troubled times. The text will appeal to
students, faculty, administrators, student life professionals, and
policymakers who shape human potential. In the end it will leave
them with sobering thoughts about the present and future of higher
education, an institution that still warrants their constant care
and vigilance.
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien. In
Mind Fields, Thomas J. Cottle argues that the period known as
adolescence is essentially a social construct influenced greatly by
popular culture. To understand young people, therefore, is to
recognize how the very consciousness of adolescents is shaped by a
culture, dominated by the entertainment industry, and the power of
television and the computer, constantly urging them to turn away
from the normal evolution of their personal and social lives. In
this fundamentally distracting environment, young people explore
their consciousness, sharing it with others, as well as form their
sense of identity, all the while having these most inner
experiences affected as much by the culture as by their own
temperaments and personalities. It is the culture that determines
the forms of recognition and independence, as well as intimacy and
attachment that adolescents must learn. In the end, the author
argues for the value of self-reflection as a critical ingredient of
identity formation and a fundamental antidote to distracting
cultural influences.
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.
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.
The last half century has created deep tensions in how we analyze
educational and social change. Educators, policymakers, and
concerned citizens have had to cope with competing belief systems
in evaluating and acting upon school policies and practices. This
illuminating book untangles many of the roots of those persistent
debates that have divided the nation for so long. It offers readers
a critical opportunity to reflect on our continuing ideological
struggles by examining popular books that have made a difference in
educational discourse. The editor has specifically selected key
books on social and educational controversies that speak to wide
audiences. They frame contextual issues that so-called "school
reformers" have often neglected - much to the detriment of any real
educational progress. Ultimately, this text is meant to stir our
consciences, to disorder our certainties, and to compel us to treat
education and culture with both reason and passion. It is highly
relevant for courses in social foundations of education, school
reform, educational policy studies, philosophy of education,
history of education, politics of education, curriculum studies,
and teacher education.
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