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Author: Lawrence C. Soley
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780896085039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExposes the growing corporate threats to the future of intellectual inquiry and civil society itself. Corporate investments, Soley argures, have dramatically changed the mission of higher education; they have led universities to attend to the interests of their well-heeled patrons, rather than those of students.
Author: Christian Gilde
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780739118481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigher Education: Open for Business addresses a problem in higher learning, which is newly recognized in the academic spotlight: the overcommercialization of higher education. The book asks that you, the reader, think about the following: Did you go to a Coke or Pepsi school? Do your children attend a Nike or Adidas school? Is the college in your town a Dell or Gateway campus? These questions should not be a primary concern for students, parents or faculty in an environment that has to allow students to freely focus on learning. But in a time of fiscal uncertainty, can higher education ignore the benefits of commercial ventures? It may seem foolish to do so. However, commercialism has gotten too close to certain aspects of academia such as the campus environment, classroom activities, academic research, and college sports. This disturbing encroachment of academic ground is addressed in Higher Education: Open for Business by a diverse host of authors who are closely involved in higher learning.
Author: Christopher J. Schneider
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2014-05-10
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0774826657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2004, Michael Burawoy challenged sociologists to move beyond the ivory tower and into the realm of activism, to engage in public discourses about what society could or should be. His call to arms sparked debate among sociologists. Which side would sociologists take? Would "public sociology" speak for all sociologists? In this volume, leading Canadian experts continue the debate by discussing their discipline's mission and practice and the role that ethics plays in research, theory, and teaching. In doing so, they offer insights as to where their discipline is heading and why it matters to people inside and outside the university.
Author: Evan Gerstmann
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780804754446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a provocative examination of the current state of academic freedom in the United States and around the world.
Author: Michael Schacker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1599215861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Publisher: A century after the birth of Rachel Carson, the world faces a new environmental disaster, from a chemical similar to DDT. This time the culprit appears to be IMD, or imidacloprid, a relatively new but widely used insecticide in the United States. Many beekeepers and researchers blame IMD for Colony Collapse Disorder, which has wiped out 23% of America's beehives. Even trace amounts make bees unable to fly back to their hive. Since honeybees are essential to the production of most major food crops, their demise could spell catastrophe. In a riveting, scientific/political detective story, Michael Schacker examines the evidence and offers a plan to save the bees. Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, A Spring without Bees is both a powerful cautionary tale and a call to action.
Author: Ronald Barnett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1317995910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis provocative and challenging book questions how people think about what universities should seek to do and how they should respond to the grave problems of our age. It addresses issues such as: What is wisdom? Ought universities to seek, promote and teach wisdom and what would this involve? Does it mean we need a revolution in the aims and methods of academic inquiry? What implications would the pursuit of wisdom have for science, for social inquiry and the humanities, for education? Is it reasonable to ask of universities that they take up the task of helping humanity learn how to create a wiser world? Is there a religious dimension to wisdom? What can non-academics do to encourage universities to take wisdom seriously? Would the pursuit of wisdom be possible given that universities are increasingly subjected to commercial pressures? With contributions from leading experts in various fields Wisdom in the University is essential reading for all those interested in the future of universities and philosophy of education. This book was previously published as a special issue of London Review of Education
Author: Robert A. Rhoads
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-05-04
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0804775427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines faculty and students at four universities around the world to understand the diverse ways individuals experience and define citizenship in the age of globalization.
Author: Corey Dolgon
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2006-06
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 081471997X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom polo players to migrant workers, an inside peek at one of America's most exclusive communities.
Author: Samuel McCormick
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-11-09
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0271072199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough the scarcity of public intellectuals among today’s academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy in search of persuasive techniques, resistant practices, and ethical sensibilities for use in contemporary democratic public culture. At the center of this book are the political epistles of four renowned scholars: the Roman Stoic Seneca the Younger, the late-medieval feminist Christine de Pizan, the key Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant, and the Christian anti-philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Anticipating much of today’s online advocacy, their letter-writing helps would-be intellectuals understand the economy of personal and public address at work in contemporary relations of power, suggesting that the art of lettered protest, like letter-writing itself, involves appealing to diverse, and often strictly virtual, audiences. In this sense, Letters to Power is not only a nuanced historical study but also a book in search of a usable past.
Author: Amalya Oliver-Lumerman
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-02-26
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1781000344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow is the public mission of universities to change in the face of today’s global challenges? How is the 21st Century university to balance its long-standing traditions and its commitment to teaching, research and commercialization with rapidly changing social needs and conditions worldwide? And how does the newly defined public role of the university reflect on changes to non-profit organizations in general? Amalya Oliver-Lumerman and Gili S. Drori offer a new model of academic commitment and leadership in response to questions about the new public role of the university.
