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Failing the future : a dean looks at higher education in the twenty-first century

Title: Failing the future : a dean looks at higher education in the twenty-first century / Annette Kolodny.
Author: Kolodny, Annette, 1941-2019
Publication: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

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xi, 298 pages; 25 cm

Summary

In this book, the author explains reasons behind the financial crisis in higher education in the twenty-first century and addresses the challenges that remain ignored, including rising birth-rates, changing demographics both on campus and across the country, the globalization of higher education and advanced research, and the necessity for greater inter-disciplinarity in undergraduate education. Moreover, while sensitive to the burdens placed on faculty today, the author nonetheless reveals how the professoriate has allowed itself to become vulnerable to public misconceptions and to lampooning by the media. The author offers a defense of the role of tenure and outlines a set of procedures to ensure its effective implementation; proposes a structure for a policy that addresses antifeminist intellectual harassment; and provides a checklist of family-sensitive policies universities can offer their staff, faculty, and administrators. The author calls on union leaders, campus communities, policy-makers, and the general public to work together in unprecedented partnerships. The goal is to initiate a revitalized conversation about public education.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-289) and index.

Contents

A personal preface : reflections on five years in a dean's office -- Facing the future : an introduction -- "60 Minutes" at the University of Arizona : the polemic against tenure -- Raising standards while lowering anxieties : rethinking the promotion and tenure process -- Paying the price of antifeminist intellectual harassment -- Creating the family-friendly campus -- Teaching and learning in a world of cognitive diversity -- Setting an agenda for change -- Failing the future - or, How to commit national suicide at the end of the twentieth century -- A closing refrain : reflections at a graduation -- Appendix 1 : University of Arizona College of Humanities promotion and tenure procedures -- Appendix 2 : Summary checklist of selected family-friendly initiatives and programs.

ISBN

0822321866
9780822321866
0822324709
9780822324706

LCCN

97037781

OCLC

ocm37552358
37552358
SCSB-8894821

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Princeton University Library