ISBN: 9781108471923 - the attack on higher education: the dissolution of the american university (9 Ergebnisse)

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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Takes a long historical perspective on the evolution of education in our culture to analyze the state of higher ed in America. Will interest university administrators, faculties in the arts and sciences, policy-makers in academia, government, foundations, and the general public seeking a handle on American politics and education.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 225 pages. 9.29x6.26x1.06 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Americanhigher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia ascorrupt,irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts, attacks on liberal arts and humanitiesdisciplines, faculty layoffs and retrenchments, technology displacements,corporatization, and campus closings have accelerated over the past decade. In this timely volume, Ronald Musto draws on historicalprecedent -Henry VIII'sdissolutionof British monasteries in the 1530s - forhis study of the current threats to American higher education. He shows how a triad of forces - authority, separateness, andinnovation -enabledmonasteries to succeed, and then suddenly and unexpectedly to fail. Musto applies this analogy to contemporary academia. Despite higher education's vital centrality to American culture and economy, a powerful, anti-liberal narrative is severely damaging itsreputationamong parents, voters, and politicians. Musto offers a comprehensive account of this narrative from the mid-twentieth century to the present, as well as a new set of arguments to counter criticisms and rebuild the image of higher education.…

Zustand: New. Takes a long historical perspective on the evolution of education in our culture to analyze the state of higher ed in America. Will interest university administrators, faculties in the arts and sciences, policy-makers in academia, government, foundations, a.