Robert B. Archibald
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- July 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190251918
- eISBN:
- 9780190251949
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190251918.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
Crisis rhetoric dominates the conversation about higher education. This chapter provides a few fictional stories about the future of colleges and universities facing today’s stresses. It introduces ...
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Crisis rhetoric dominates the conversation about higher education. This chapter provides a few fictional stories about the future of colleges and universities facing today’s stresses. It introduces the threats that US higher education faces. These include internal threats, classified as those that come from conducting business as usual in the traditional model of producing a college education; environmental threats, broader economic changes in the world outside of higher education that make the current financial model for colleges and universities more challenging; and technological threats, that is, the expansion of online education. The chapter also discusses reasons apocalyptic predictions of disruption and bankruptcy for large segments of the US higher education system are overblown.Less
Crisis rhetoric dominates the conversation about higher education. This chapter provides a few fictional stories about the future of colleges and universities facing today’s stresses. It introduces the threats that US higher education faces. These include internal threats, classified as those that come from conducting business as usual in the traditional model of producing a college education; environmental threats, broader economic changes in the world outside of higher education that make the current financial model for colleges and universities more challenging; and technological threats, that is, the expansion of online education. The chapter also discusses reasons apocalyptic predictions of disruption and bankruptcy for large segments of the US higher education system are overblown.
Jeffrey J. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263806
- eISBN:
- 9780823266432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263806.003.0022
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter discusses the current state of academic labor, particularly the way that professors have been disempowered and jobs have been casualized. It surveys the history of American higher ...
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This chapter discusses the current state of academic labor, particularly the way that professors have been disempowered and jobs have been casualized. It surveys the history of American higher education from the 1950s and 60s, and explores reasons for the degradation of academic labor since. In particular, it examines two important analyses, by Marc Bousquet and Frank Donoghue. It finds Bousquet's argument for action against these policies more effectual than Donghue's.Less
This chapter discusses the current state of academic labor, particularly the way that professors have been disempowered and jobs have been casualized. It surveys the history of American higher education from the 1950s and 60s, and explores reasons for the degradation of academic labor since. In particular, it examines two important analyses, by Marc Bousquet and Frank Donoghue. It finds Bousquet's argument for action against these policies more effectual than Donghue's.
Jeffrey J. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263806
- eISBN:
- 9780823266432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263806.003.0020
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter exposes not only the statistics but the ways that college student loan debt has become a way of teaching students ideological lessons about the public sphere and their choices in life. ...
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This chapter exposes not only the statistics but the ways that college student loan debt has become a way of teaching students ideological lessons about the public sphere and their choices in life. It presents one of the first analyses of student debt, separating myth from fact and noting the history of contemporary student loans. It argues against anti-social policy of current student debt and for free public education.Less
This chapter exposes not only the statistics but the ways that college student loan debt has become a way of teaching students ideological lessons about the public sphere and their choices in life. It presents one of the first analyses of student debt, separating myth from fact and noting the history of contemporary student loans. It argues against anti-social policy of current student debt and for free public education.
Jeffrey J. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263806
- eISBN:
- 9780823266432
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263806.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
How to Be an Intellectual makes the case for a renewed critical writing. It tells the story of contemporary criticism and theory from several unique perspectives, notably its institutional and ...
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How to Be an Intellectual makes the case for a renewed critical writing. It tells the story of contemporary criticism and theory from several unique perspectives, notably its institutional and historical circumstances. For instance, it recounts the rise of "the theory journal," under the aegis of the drive for research beginning in the 1970s, which supplanted the little magazine, and it deciphers the evolution of academic keywords from "sound" to "rigor" to "smart." It also draws on a wealth of interviews with leading critics and philosophers, from M. H. Abrams and Donna Haraway to Andrew Ross and Judith Halberstam, presenting profiles of their work and their careers. Throughout, it considers how its academic location has influenced contemporary intellectual work, and one section deals explicitly with the current problems facing American higher education. It offers original analyses of the draconian expansion of student debt (including an account of how it parallels colonial indenture), and the situation of professors, increasingly casualized and subject to unprecedented stratification. Lastly, the book presents a number of personal essays about experiences related to working with books, inside and outside the university. Throughout, How to Be an Intellectual argues for the public obligation of criticism-both to educate its public about otherwise specialized academic matters, and to consider the politics of our culture.Less
How to Be an Intellectual makes the case for a renewed critical writing. It tells the story of contemporary criticism and theory from several unique perspectives, notably its institutional and historical circumstances. For instance, it recounts the rise of "the theory journal," under the aegis of the drive for research beginning in the 1970s, which supplanted the little magazine, and it deciphers the evolution of academic keywords from "sound" to "rigor" to "smart." It also draws on a wealth of interviews with leading critics and philosophers, from M. H. Abrams and Donna Haraway to Andrew Ross and Judith Halberstam, presenting profiles of their work and their careers. Throughout, it considers how its academic location has influenced contemporary intellectual work, and one section deals explicitly with the current problems facing American higher education. It offers original analyses of the draconian expansion of student debt (including an account of how it parallels colonial indenture), and the situation of professors, increasingly casualized and subject to unprecedented stratification. Lastly, the book presents a number of personal essays about experiences related to working with books, inside and outside the university. Throughout, How to Be an Intellectual argues for the public obligation of criticism-both to educate its public about otherwise specialized academic matters, and to consider the politics of our culture.
Jeffrey J. Williams
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823263806
- eISBN:
- 9780823266432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823263806.003.0021
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter demonstrates that contemporary college student loan debt in the U.S. is similar to colonial indenture. It reviews the history of indentured servitude and shows how student debt literally ...
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This chapter demonstrates that contemporary college student loan debt in the U.S. is similar to colonial indenture. It reviews the history of indentured servitude and shows how student debt literally reproduces some of its terms-in the idea of debt of the worker to pay for his path to a job; length of obligation and substantial amounts of debt; limited recourse; a related brokerage system; and governmental sanction. It argues against the exploitive system of current student debt and the justice that someone can sign their life to such a bond.Less
This chapter demonstrates that contemporary college student loan debt in the U.S. is similar to colonial indenture. It reviews the history of indentured servitude and shows how student debt literally reproduces some of its terms-in the idea of debt of the worker to pay for his path to a job; length of obligation and substantial amounts of debt; limited recourse; a related brokerage system; and governmental sanction. It argues against the exploitive system of current student debt and the justice that someone can sign their life to such a bond.
Thomas Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816698875
- eISBN:
- 9781452954264
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816698875.003.0006
- Subject:
- Art, Design
The chapter examines the importance of redesigning colleges and universities facing an unsustainable financial situation—characterized by falling support along with rising tuition and student ...
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The chapter examines the importance of redesigning colleges and universities facing an unsustainable financial situation—characterized by falling support along with rising tuition and student debt—and disruption from the digital revolution. It explores what such redesigning might entail, and encourages both faculty engagement and student inclusion in this processLess
The chapter examines the importance of redesigning colleges and universities facing an unsustainable financial situation—characterized by falling support along with rising tuition and student debt—and disruption from the digital revolution. It explores what such redesigning might entail, and encourages both faculty engagement and student inclusion in this process
