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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages...
Author
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
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For nearly two decades, pundits have been predicting the demise of higher education in the United States. Our colleges and universities will soon find themselves competing for students with universities from around the world. With the advent of massive open online courses ("MOOCS") over the past two years, predictions that higher education will be the next industry to undergo "disruption" have become more frequent and fervent. Currently a university's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with self-doubt and mutual recrimination, with no clear solutions on the horizon. How did this happen? In this stunning new book, Christopher Newfield offers readers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book argues that the current conversation about affirmative action and college admissions omits a key dimension: the conditions of racial inequality that students and their families experience from early childhood through high school, and which continue throughout postsecondary education. The moment of matriculation is part of a much longer process that begins in homes, schools, and communities, which prepares some students well and leaves others...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"During his four years as the tenth Chancellor of Berkeley (2013-17), Nicholas B. Dirks was confronted by crises arguably more challenging than those faced by any other college administrator in the contemporary period. This thoughtfully candid book, emerging from deep reflection on his turbulent time in office, offers not just a gripping insider's account of the febrile politics of his time as Berkeley's leader, but also decades of nuanced reflection...
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