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America's colleges and universities are social institutions -- embedded in the wider society and subject in various ways to its constraining forces. In American Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century, researchers who share this understanding explore the new realities of higher education and consider its greatest challenges for the next century.Subject to increasing scrutiny by the media and the public, colleges and universities must wrestle with a wide range of issues generated by their various external constituencies. Academic leaders rearrange their curricula to meet demands for multiculturalism. They seek an appropriate response as race-based admissions procedures come under attack. They assess student learning and monitor faculty productivity--while simultaneously responding to calls for the end of tenure and for explanations of why the cost of attending college has risen so dramatically. Using the changing social, political, and economic contexts of colleges and universities as a lens for examining these complex issues, the contributors seek to understand the forces -- whether unique to our era or rooted in the past -- that currently influence higher education and will continue to do so in the next century. Whether discussing finance or technology or academic freedom or the canon, the authors find that relations between academic institutions and their surrounding societies have generally been ambivalent: both involved and withdrawn, servicing and criticizing, needing and being needed. Understanding the complex interplay between institutions and external forces, they conclude, is the key to guiding the endeavors of faculty, students, and administrative leaders alike.
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9781421419893 | 4th edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 4, 2016), cover price $69.95 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
9780801899058 | 3 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 12, 2011), cover price $60.00 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
9780801880346 | 2 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 2005), cover price $60.00
9780199518005, titled "Small States in Comparative Perspective: Essays in Honour of Erik Allardt" | Universitetsforlaget, October 1, 1986, cover price $62.00 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, Small States in Comparative Perspective: Essays in Honour of Erik Allardt
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9781421419909 | 4th edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 8, 2016), cover price $32.95 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
9780801899065 | 3 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 8, 2011), cover price $29.95 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
9780801880353 | 2 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 25, 2005), cover price $30.00
9780801858895 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: America's colleges and universities are social institutions -- embedded in the wider society and subject in various ways to its constraining forces.
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9780826520357, titled "Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, & the Future of Colleges and Universities" | Vanderbilt Univ Pr, February 1, 2015, cover price $59.95
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9780826520364 | Reprint edition (Vanderbilt Univ Pr, February 1, 2015), cover price $27.95
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9780691145372 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 17, 2012, cover price $29.95
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9780691163666 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 21, 2014, cover price $19.95
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9780230615090 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 15, 2010, cover price $115.00
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9781137454454 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 6, 2014, cover price $37.00
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9780465044962 | Basic Books, March 11, 2014, cover price $27.99
Product Description: Presenting a thoughtful justification for the left in American education, Donald Lazere argues that to teach students rhetoric and critical thinking, key components of a humanist education, educators must discuss and teach students to grapple with the conservative bias in academia, the media, and politics that is considered to be the status quo...read more
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9781137349644 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 11, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Presenting a thoughtful justification for the left in American education, Donald Lazere argues that to teach students rhetoric and critical thinking, key components of a humanist education, educators must discuss and teach students to grapple with the conservative bias in academia, the media, and politics that is considered to be the status quo.
Respected author, critic, and essayist Bruce Bawerâwhose previous book, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within, was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalistânow offers a trenchant and sweeping critique of the sorry state of higher education since the campus revolutions of the late â60s and early â70s. In The Victimsâ Revolution, Bawer incisively contends that the rise of identity-based college courses and disciplines (Womenâs Studies, Black Studies, Gay Studies, etc.) forty years ago has resulted in an impoverishment of thought and widespread political confusion, while filling the brains of students with politically correct mush. Timely, controversial, and brilliantly argued, Bawerâs The Victimsâ Revolution is necessary reading for students, educators, and anyone concerned about the contemporary crisis in academiaâa serious and important work that stands with other essential books on the subject, like The Shadow University by Alan Kors, Illiberal Education by Dinesh DâSouza, and Allan Bloomâs The Closing of the American Mind.
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9780061807374 | Harpercollins, September 4, 2012, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Respected author, critic, and essayist Bruce Bawerâwhose previous book, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within, was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalistânow offers a trenchant and sweeping critique of the sorry state of higher education since the campus revolutions of the late â60s and early â70s.
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9780061807350 | Harpercollins, December 3, 2013, cover price $14.99
Product Description: "Stephen Parks restores politics to the history of Composition Studies." -Richard Ohmann | CLASS POLITICS THE MOVEMENT FOR THE STUDENTS' RIGHT TO THEIR OWN LANGUAGE (Second Edition) is a response to histories of Composition Studies that focused on scholarly articles and university programs as the generative source for the field...read more
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9781602354197 | 2 edition (Parlor Pr, August 31, 2013), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: "Stephen Parks restores politics to the history of Composition Studies.
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9781602354180 | Parlor Pr, March 1, 2013, cover price $32.00
9780814106785 | Natl Council of Teachers, December 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Class Politics: The Movement for the Students' Right to Their Own Language (Refiguring English Studies)
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9781137033680 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 4, 2012, cover price $115.00
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9781137033697 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 4, 2012, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: A collection of the finest works of scholarship examining education - mostly higher education - as civic engagement published over the last decade in JAC, an award-winning journal of rhetoric, politics, and culture.
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9781451683202, titled "The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students" | Simon & Schuster, April 3, 2012, cover price $17.00
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9781594518898 | Paradigm Pub, May 30, 2012, cover price $49.95
Product Description: The Still Divided Academy is a wonderful examination of the academic community that shows their inner workings by addressing a broad range of issues including: academic politics, tenure, perceived and real political imbalance, academic freedom, and diversity...read more
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9781442208063 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 16, 2011, cover price $49.00 | About this edition: The Still Divided Academy is a wonderful examination of the academic community that shows their inner workings by addressing a broad range of issues including: academic politics, tenure, perceived and real political imbalance, academic freedom, and diversity.
Product Description: Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that our present is shaped by persistent "raceless" racism at home and permanent civilizational war abroad...read more
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9780804770477 | Stanford Univ Pr, July 28, 2010, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era.
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9780804770484 | Stanford Univ Pr, July 28, 2010, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era.
Product Description: In 2003, David Horowitz began a campaign to promote intellectual diversity and a return to academic standards in American universities. To achieve these goals he devised an Academic Bill of Rights and created a national student movement with chapters on 160 college campuses...read more
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9781594031908 | Encounter Books, February 1, 2007, cover price $21.95
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9781594032370, titled "Indoctrination U.: The Left's War Against Academic Freedom" | Encounter Books, April 15, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In 2003, David Horowitz began a campaign to promote intellectual diversity and a return to academic standards in American universities.
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9780199518005 | Universitetsforlaget, October 1, 1986, cover price $62.00 | also contains American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges
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