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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
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People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
" ... Bell, neither a Chinese citizen nor a member of the Chinese Communist Party, was appointed as dean because of his scholarly work on Confucianism--but soon found himself coping with a variety of issues having little to do with scholarship or Confucius. These include the importance of hair color and the prevalence of hair-dyeing among university administrators, both male and female; Shandong's drinking culture, with endless toasts at every shared...
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An even-handed exploration of the polarized state of campus politics that suggests ways for schools and universities to encourage discourse across difference. College campuses have become flashpoints of the current culture war and, consequently, much ink has been spilled over the relationship between universities and the cultivation or coddling of young American minds. Philosopher Sigal R. Ben-Porath takes head-on arguments that infantilize students...
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Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The volume collects a sequence of essays on academic freedom, in which the author explains how to defend academic freedom against its current cultural threats. Up to date with the contemporary political climate and the technologies of social media, the author has substantially reworked blog posts he originally wrote for the American Association of University Professors"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents a deeply researched look at the broken state of higher education in America and how we can work towards a new model that works for all Americans. 50,000 first printing.
Publisher
Violet Crown Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Starving the Beast examines the ongoing power struggle on college campuses across the nation as political and market-oriented forces push to disrupt and reform America's public universities. The film documents a philosophical shift that seeks to reframe public higher education as a 'value proposition' to be borne by the beneficiary of a college degree rather than as a 'public good' for society. Financial winners and losers emerge in a struggle poised...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only those in the top income brackets. In Degrees of Inequality, acclaimed political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains why the system has gone so horribly wrong and why the American Dream is increasingly out of reach for so many. In her eye-opening account,...
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The former dean of Yale Law School surveys the full sweep of recent campus controversies to show how these disputes threaten the best of America's intellectual traditions--including democracy itself. In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest the names of buildings and seen colleagues resign over emails about Halloween costumes. He is no stranger to recent confrontations at American universities. But...
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book started with a hypothesis that I first published online in 2015: that the "Dissolution of the Monasteries" under Henry VIII in England in the 1530s provides a working metaphor for current challenges to higher education in the United States, and by extension to other Anglophone systems. Why has this book adopted such a historical metaphor? Centuries, political systems and economies, social systems, and universes of belief divide our world...
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