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Reconstructing the “Uni-versity”
From the Ashes of the "Mega- and Multi-versity" to the Futures of Higher Education
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Reconstructing the “Uni-versity”
From the Ashes of the "Mega- and Multi-versity" to the Futures of Higher Education
About this book
Slogans, myths, and isolated anecdotes are inadequate substitutes for documented history and contextual understanding.
Literature on the history of higher education is dominated by ahistorical and contextually ignorant slogans. Seldom acknowledged, in discussions of the "decline" or "failure" of the modern university, is 1) how long it has been going on (at least since the 1960s); and 2) universities' own complicity in this long, complicated, and contradictory process. Myths intertwine inseparably with slogans to echo yet another "lost cause." Our collective, as well as individual, pasts provide essential lessons if we know how to read and learn from them. More complicated is imagining a plausible better future for universities. In Reconstructing the "Uni-versity": From the Ashes of the "Mega- and Multi-versity" to the Futures of Higher Education, Harvey J. Graff, bringing experience from over 50 years as a professor, provides an accurate history of higher education, redefining the issues and terms to establish a new agenda.
Literature on the history of higher education is dominated by ahistorical and contextually ignorant slogans. Seldom acknowledged, in discussions of the "decline" or "failure" of the modern university, is 1) how long it has been going on (at least since the 1960s); and 2) universities' own complicity in this long, complicated, and contradictory process. Myths intertwine inseparably with slogans to echo yet another "lost cause." Our collective, as well as individual, pasts provide essential lessons if we know how to read and learn from them. More complicated is imagining a plausible better future for universities. In Reconstructing the "Uni-versity": From the Ashes of the "Mega- and Multi-versity" to the Futures of Higher Education, Harvey J. Graff, bringing experience from over 50 years as a professor, provides an accurate history of higher education, redefining the issues and terms to establish a new agenda.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction, or Is Higher Education Its Own Worst Enemy?
- 1 New Beginnings Based in Part on Re-interpreting the Past: Setting Agendas
- 2 First Steps Toward a New “Uni-versity”
- 3 Ways and Means: Between Today’s Realities and Tomorrow’s Possibilities: Is Changing “Incentive Structures” and “Business Models” an Impossible Dream?
- 4 Educating the Administration?: The Rise and Fall of Slogans for Self-Promotion and Misdirection of Multiple Constituencies: An Era of (Un?)planned Obsolescence?
- 5 The Return and Reconstruction of the Faculty?
- 6 Lost and/or Found?: Student Life or Student Lives?
- 7 University Districts and Civic Lives: Universities, Communities, Students
- Conclusion: Pasts, Present, Futures
- References and Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index
- Copyright