The Future of American Higher Education : : How Today's Public Intellectuals Frame the Debate.

• Author: DeVitis, Joseph L.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)

"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.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Series Page -- Half Title -- A Sasso and Devitis Book -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: On Liberal Education -- 1: Setting the Stage the Cultural Work of Russell Jacoby -- 2: Amy Gutmann's Ethics, Deliberative Democracy, and Challenges in Higher Education -- 3: Michael Roth and The Liberal Arts Transforming Society and Selves -- 4: Saving the University From Itself Stanley Fish and The Future of the Academy -- 5: The Trouble With Elitism William Deresiewicz's Critique of Neoliberal Higher Education in the United States -- Part Two: On Labor and Learning -- 6: Accessing the Academy David Kirp on Higher Education -- 7: Michael Bérubé and The Neoliberal University Humanities, Academic Freedom, and The Crises in Higher Education -- 8: The Wal-Martification of Higher Education Marc Bousquet's Critical Examination of Contingent Faculty and Academia's Labor Practices -- 9: The Neoliberal Transformation of Higher Education Stanley Aronowitz and The Rise of the Corporate Knowledge Factory -- 10: Newfield as a New Field? The Substance and Subjectivities of a Cross-Disciplinary Voice in the Public Domain -- 11: Consumer Demand and The Status-Seeking Society David F. Labaree on the American Higher Education System -- Part Three: On Education and Social Change -- 12: #Realcollege the Work and Activism of Sara Goldrick-Rab -- 13: Lori Patton Davis Mapping the Landscape of African American Postsecondary Education -- 14: Equity and Advocacy the Scholarship of Marybeth Gasman -- 15: Affirmative Action in Higher Education the Perspectives of Randall Kennedy -- 16: Patricia Hill Collins's on Intellectual Activism the Expansion of Our Field of Perspective -- 17: The Fight for the Public Henry Giroux, The Neoliberal Project, and The Limits of Critical Pedagogy -- About The Contributors.

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