Colleges at the crossroads

Colleges at the crossroads: taking sides on contested issues

by DeVitis, Joseph L. Sasso, Pietro A.

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Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America_s colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today_s troubled world. Each chapter presents divergent perspectives, that is, "pro" and "con" views, in the hope of stimulating reasoned dialogue among students, faculty, administrators, and the public at large. Readers will explore how internal factors in the academic …

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  • Full title :Colleges at the crossroads : taking sides on contested issues / edited by Joseph L. DeVitis & Pietro A. Sasso.

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Focusing on crucial issues in higher education, this book challenges readers to go beyond taken-for-granted assumptions about America_s colleges and universities and instead critically examine important questions facing them in today_s troubled world. Each chapter presents divergent perspectives, that is, "pro" and "con" views, in the hope of stimulating reasoned dialogue among students, faculty, administrators, and the public at large. Readers will explore how internal factors in the academic community often interact with external social, economic, and political influences to produce conflictual results. They will see that academe is hardly value-neutral and inevitably political. This book urges them to transcend strident political persuasion and instead engage in the careful analysis needed to make colleges better. The text provides in-depth appraisal of key topics of controversy: the purposes of higher education, liberal education, academic freedom, political correctness, tenure, shared governance, faculty workload, admissions tests, student learning, Greek life, the worth of college, equity and social justice, athletics, student entitlement, technology and distance instruction, and college amenities. The book will appeal to students, faculty, staff, and all those interested in the future of higher education. It is especially useful for courses in contemporary issues in higher education, foundations of higher education, higher education and society, college student development, and the organization and administration of higher education.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2018

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xvii, 523 pages ; : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781433134210, 1433134217, 9781433134227, 1433134225
  • oclc:ocn995759607
  • LC Classification:LA227.4
  • Dewey Decimal:378.73

Table of Contents

What is college for? / Johann N. Neem -- Modernizing college purposes to save a troubled world / Patricia A. McGuire -- The urgent need for liberal education in today's troubled world / Bruce W. Hauptl -- Civic engagement in higher learning / Richard Guarasci -- "Flipping" the tenure debate and the continuing need to protect academic freedom / Niel H. Hutchens & Frank Fernandez -- What is academic freedom for? / Ashley Thorne -- The contingency of tenure / David Shiner -- Why tenure needs protection in these troubled times / Philo A. Hutcheson -- Free expression at public colleges and universities : why students should care about it and why campus officials should make sure it is protected / Dennis E. Gregory -- Free expression and political correctness : contextualizing the controversies and finding a way forward / R. Scott Mattingly, J. Bennet Durham & Matthew R. Shupp -- Tokenizing social justice in higher education / Cristobal Salinas, Jr. & Valerie A. Guerrero -- Creating inclusive classrooms as an imperative for upholding academic freedom for historically underrepresented groups in higher education / Michael Sean Funk -- It is a balancing act : faculty workload / Isis N. Wal…

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Subjects

Academic freedom Academic freedom -- United States College sports -- Moral and ethical asp… College sports -- Moral and ethical asp… College students -- Social conditions College students -- Social conditions. … College teachers -- Tenure College teachers -- Tenure -- United St… College teachers -- Workload College teachers -- Workload -- United … Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives Education, Higher -- Aims and objective… Education, Higher -- Economic aspects Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -… Education, Higher -- Effect of technolo… Education, Higher -- Effect of technolo… Enseignement supérieur -- Aspect économ… Enseignement supérieur -- Effets des in… Enseignement supérieur -- Finalités -- … Étudiants -- Conditions sociales. -- Ét…

Writers

DeVitis, Joseph L. Sasso, Pietro A.

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