Still Divided Academy (eBook)

How Competing Visions of Power, Politics, and Diversity Complicate the Mission of Higher Education

April Kelly-Woessner, Stanley Rothman, Matthew Woessner (Autoren)

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2010
296 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-0808-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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. Administrators, professors, and students have very different priorities, values, and expectations and therefore, often have conflicting opinions on these issues. Drawing on data collected in a specially commissioned public opinion survey as well as other recent research on higher education, Rothman, Kelly-Woessner, and Woessner, create an incredibly readable presentation of both the similarities and differences between those running our universities and those attending them. The authors manage to remain impressively neutral; instead they give us a fuller perspective of the people on our college campuses.

Autor

Stanley Rothman is Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of Government Emeritus at Smith College and the director of the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change. April Kelly-Woessner is associate professor of political science at Elizabethtown College. Matthew Woessner is an associate professor of political science and public policy at Penn State University at Harrisburg.

Inhalt

Part 1 AcknowledgementsPart 2 PrefacePart 3 Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 4 Previous Studies of the AcademyChapter 5 The NAASS SurveyChapter 6 Layout of the BookPart 7 Chapter 2: Visions of the UniversityChapter 8 Goals of EducationChapter 9 Encouraging Cultural Understanding and Minority PerspectivesChapter 10 Perceptions of Educational QualityChapter 11 Problems Facing Higher EducationChapter 12 ConclusionPart 13 Chapter 3: Perceptions of Power and Control in the American UniversityChapter 14 The Faculty-Administrative DivideChapter 15 Varied Perceptions of InfluenceChapter 16 Conflict as a Predictor of InfluenceChapter 17 Collective BargainingChapter 18 Student Demands and InfluenceChapter 19 ConclusionPart 20 Chapter 4: Politics and Culture WarsChapter 21 Political Views of the FacultyChapter 22 Politics of the AdministrationChapter 23 Students' Political ValuesChapter 24 Divisions within the ProfessoriateChapter 25 Generational Differences Among FacultyChapter 26 Politics and Scholarly AchievementChapter 27 ConclusionPart 28 Chapter 5: Campus DiversityChapter 29 The Campus Climate for DiversityChapter 30 Personal Experiences with Ongoing Discrimination or HarassmentChapter 31 Campus Support for DiversityChapter 32 Impact of DiversityChapter 33 ConclusionPart 34 Chapter 6: Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Free Exchange of IdeasChapter 35 The Politics of Academic FreedomChapter 36 Other Sources of ThreatChapter 37 Perceptions of Academic FreedomChapter 38 Support for TenureChapter 39 Free expression on campusChapter 40 Spiral of Silence?Chapter 41 ConclusionPart 42 Chapter 7: ConclusionChapter 43 Access and AffordabilityChapter 44 Accountability and AssessmentChapter 45 Social ChangeChapter 46 Politics and Ideology in American Higher EducationChapter 47 Campus DialoguePart 48 Appendix 1: A List of Questions Used in the NAASS SurveyPart 49 Appendix 2: A Professor's Assessment of Institutional Success in Educating StudentsPart 50 Appendix 4: A University Rankings by TierPart 51 Appendix 5: A Models of Trust for Students, Faculty and AdministratorsPart 52 Appendix 5: B The Impact of Varying Exclusion Methods on College Satisfaction ResultsPart 53 Appendix 6: A Why Professors Think Academic Tenure is ImportantPart 54 Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Faculty Resources • Professor Resources • teacher resources
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-0808-2 / 1442208082
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-0808-7 / 9781442208087