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A century ago, universities were primarily in the business of molding upper-class young men for the professions. The world has changed, and universities have been forced to keep pace by experimenting with affirmative action, curriculum overhauls, part-time degree programs, and t…
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 diver…
"This book started with a hypothesis that I first published online in 2015: that the "Dissolution of the Monasteries" under Henry VIII in England in the 1530s provides a working metaphor for current challenges to higher education in the United States, and by extension to other A…
American higher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia as corrupt, irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts, attacks on liberal arts and humanities disciplines, faculty layoffs and r…
"This book started with a hypothesis that I first published online in 2015: that the "Dissolution of the Monasteries" under Henry VIII in England in the 1530s provides a working metaphor for current challenges to higher education in the United States, and by extension to other A…
Compares the current right-wing attack on American higher education to Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1535.
"This book started with a hypothesis that I first published online in 2015: that the "Dissolution of the Monasteries" under Henry VIII in England in the 1530s provides a working metaphor for current challenges to higher education in the United States, and by extension to other A…
Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Imagining the Tree of Wisdom -- 2 Standing by Our Words -- 3 Doing Good Work -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 4 Tradition -- 5 Hierarchy -- 6 Geography -- 7 Community -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments …
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's cultural obsession with restless…
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Drawing on Berry's essays, fiction, and poetry, Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilb…
"Brandon Absher demonstrates that the neoliberalization of higher education has led to a paradigm shift in contemporary philosophy in the United States. Neoliberal philosophy aims to produce human capital and profitable knowledge"--.
"Brandon Absher demonstrates that the neoliberalization of higher education has led to a paradigm shift in contemporary philosophy in the United States. Neoliberal philosophy aims to produce human capital and profitable knowledge"--
"Brandon Absher demonstrates that the neoliberalization of higher education has led to a paradigm shift in contemporary philosophy in the United States. Neoliberal philosophy aims to produce human capital and profitable knowledge"--