The Future of American Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

How Today's Public Intellectuals Frame the Debate
Redaktion: Devitis, Joseph L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000971262
• Artikelnr.: 68356779

Autorenporträt

Richard Guarasci was the longest-serving president of Wagner College, becoming president emeritus on his retirement in 2019. He joined the college in 1997 as provost and vice president for academic affairs. He was previously dean of Hobart College at the Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Prior to that he served as a faculty member and dean at St. Lawrence University, New York.He has served both as a member of the board of directors, and board chair of The Association of American Colleges & Universities, Campus Compact, The Coalition of Urban & Metropolitan Universities, The New American Colleges and Universities, New York State Higher Education Services Corporation, and Project Pericles. He has also served on the National Task Force on Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement and the Anchor Institution Task Force. Joseph L. DeVitis is a retired professor of educational foundations and higher education. He is a past president of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), the Council of Learned Societies in Education, and the Society of Professors of Education. Dr. DeVitis is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Two of his books have earned Choice Awards from the American Library Association, and four others have won Critics Choice Awards from AESA as outstanding books of the year, including his most recent book, Popular Educational Classics (Peter Lang, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Richard Guarasci Introduction Joseph L. DeVitis Part One. On
Liberal Education One Setting the Stage. The Cultural Work of Russell
Jacoby Joseph L. DeVitis & Gregory Seals Two Amy Gutmann's Ethics,
Deliberative Democracy, and Challenges in Higher Education Spoma Jovanovic
Three Michael Roth and the Liberal Arts. Transforming Society and Selves
Daniel P. Liston Four Saving the University from Itself. Stanley Fish and
the Future of the Academy Dan Sarofian-Butin Five The Trouble with Elites.
William Deresiewicz's Critique of Neoliberal Higher Education in the United
States J. Todd Ormsbee Part Two. On Labor and Learning Six Assessing the
Academy. David Kirp on Higher Education Kevin Murray Seven Michael Bérubé
and the Neoliberal University. Humanities, Academic Freedom, and the Crises
in Higher Education Deron Boyles Eight The Wal-Martification of Higher
Education. Marc Bousquet's Critical Examination of Contingent Faculty and
Academic Labor Practices Dan Bauer & Marshall Martin Nine The Neoliberal
Transformation of Higher Education. Stanley Aronowitz and the Rise of the
Corporate Knowledge Factory John M. Elmore Ten Newfield as a New Field? The
Substance and Subjectivities of a Cross-Disciplinary Voice in the Public
Domain Cassie L. Barnhardt Eleven Consumer Demand and the Status-Seeking
Society. David F. Labaree on the American Higher Education System Timothy
Glander Part Three. On Education and Social Change Twelve #Real College.
The Work and Activism of Sara Goldrick-Rabb Carrie Freie Thirteen Lori
Patton Davis. Mapping the Landscape of African-American Postsecondary
Education Sabrina Ross Fourteen Equity and Advocacy. The Scholarship of
Marybeth Gasman Pietro A. Sasso, Adriel A. Hilton, & Cheron H. Davis
Fifteen Affirmative Action in Higher Education. The Perspectives of Randall
Kennedy William L. Nuckols & Dennis E. Gregory Sixteen Patricia Hill
Collins' On Intellectual Activism. The Expansion of Our Field of
Perspective Brooke Judie & Stephanie M. McClure Seventeen The Fight for the
Public. Henry Giroux, the Neoliberal Project, and the Limits of Critical
Pedagogy Dana Morrison Contributors