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Unsettling the University

Author : Sharon Stein
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421445050
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Unsettling the University written by Sharon Stein and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifts the narrative around the history of US higher education to examine its colonial past. Over the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast between a bleak present and a romanticized past. In Unsettling the University, Sharon Stein offers a different entry point—one informed by decolonial theories and practices—for addressing these issues. Stein describes the colonial violence underlying three of the most celebrated moments in US higher education history: the founding of the original colonial colleges, the creation of land-grant colleges and universities, and the post–World War II "Golden Age." Reconsidering these historical moments through a decolonial lens, Stein reveals how the central promises of higher education—the promises of continuous progress, a benevolent public good, and social mobility—are fundamentally based on racialized exploitation, expropriation, and ecological destruction. Unsettling the University invites readers to confront universities' historical and ongoing complicity in colonial violence; to reckon with how the past has shaped contemporary challenges at institutions of higher education; and to accept responsibility for redressing harm and repairing relationships in order to reimagine a future for higher education rooted in social and ecological accountability.

Decolonising the University

Author : Gurminder K. Bhambra
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745338200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Decolonising the University written by Gurminder K. Bhambra and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A must-read for anyone interested in enhancing a historical understanding of our present through a consideration of what it means to decolonize."--Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. Their battle cry, #RhodesMustFall, sparked an international movement calling for the decolonization of universities all over the world. Today, as the movement develops beyond the picket line, how might it go on to radically transform the terms upon which universities exist? In this book, students, activists, and scholars discuss the possibilities and the pitfalls of doing decolonial work in the heart of the establishment. Subverting curricula, demanding diversity, and destroying old boundaries, this is a radical call for a new era of education. Chapters include: *Rhodes Must Fall: Oxford and Movements for Change (Dalia Febrial) *Race and the Neoliberal University ((John Holmwood) *Black/Academia (Robbie Shilliam) *The Challenge for Black Studies in the Neoliberal University (Kehinde Andrews) *Open Initiatives for Decolonising the Curriculum (Pat Lockley) *Decolonising Education: A Pedagogic Intervention (Carol Azumah Dennis) *Understanding Eurocentrism as a Structural Problem of Undone Science (William Jamal Richardson) As the book's insightful Introduction states, "Taking colonialism as a global project as a starting point, it becomes difficult to turn away from the Western university as a key site through which colonialism--and colonial knowledge in particular--is produced, consecrated, institutionalized and naturalized." Offering resources for students and academics to challenge and resist colonialism inside and outside the classroom, Decolonizing the University provides the tools for radical change in educational disciplines, pedagogies, and institutions.

How the University Works

Author : Marc Bousquet
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814791127
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book How the University Works written by Marc Bousquet and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it's like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees—including the vast majority of faculty—really work in the low-wage, low-profit sphere of the service economy. Tenure-track positions are at an all-time low, with adjuncts and graduate students teaching the majority of courses. This super-exploited corps of disposable workers commonly earn fewer than $16,000 annually, without benefits, teaching as many as eight classes per year. Even undergraduates are being exploited as a low-cost, disposable workforce. Marc Bousquet, a major figure in the academic labor movement, exposes the seamy underbelly of higher education—a world where faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates work long hours for fast-food wages. Assessing the costs of higher education’s corporatization on faculty and students at every level, How the University Works is urgent reading for anyone interested in the fate of the university.

Slavery and the University

Author : Leslie M. Harris
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354449
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and the University written by Leslie M. Harris and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery and the University is the first edited collection of scholarly essays devoted solely to the histories and legacies of this subject on North American campuses and in their Atlantic contexts. Gathering together contributions from scholars, activists, and administrators, the volume combines two broad bodies of work: (1) historically based interdisciplinary research on the presence of slavery at higher education institutions in terms of the development of proslavery and antislavery thought and the use of slave labor; and (2) analysis on the ways in which the legacies of slavery in institutions of higher education continued in the post–Civil War era to the present day. The collection features broadly themed essays on issues of religion, economy, and the regional slave trade of the Caribbean. It also includes case studies of slavery’s influence on specific institutions, such as Princeton University, Harvard University, Oberlin College, Emory University, and the University of Alabama. Though the roots of Slavery and the University stem from a 2011 conference at Emory University, the collection extends outward to incorporate recent findings. As such, it offers a roadmap to one of the most exciting developments in the field of U.S. slavery studies and to ways of thinking about racial diversity in the history and current practices of higher education.

Beyond the University

Author : Michael S. Roth
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206550
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the University written by Michael S. Roth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism—often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast, believed that nurturing a student’s capacity for lifelong learning was useful for science and commerce while also being essential for democracy. In this provocative contribution to the disputes, university president Michael S. Roth focuses on important moments and seminal thinkers in America’s long-running argument over vocational vs. liberal education. Conflicting streams of thought flow through American intellectual history: W. E. B. DuBois’s humanistic principles of pedagogy for newly emancipated slaves developed in opposition to Booker T. Washington’s educational utilitarianism, for example. Jane Addams’s emphasis on the cultivation of empathy and John Dewey’s calls for education as civic engagement were rejected as impractical by those who aimed to train students for particular economic tasks. Roth explores these arguments (and more), considers the state of higher education today, and concludes with a stirring plea for the kind of education that has, since the founding of the nation, cultivated individual freedom, promulgated civic virtue, and instilled hope for the future.

What’s Happened To The University?

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315449595
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book What’s Happened To The University? written by Frank Furedi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of young people participate in higher education, what occurs in universities matters directly to the whole of society. On both sides of the Atlantic curious and disturbing events on campuses has become a matter of concern not just for academics but also for the general public. What is one to make of the growing trend of banning speakers? What’s the meaning of trigger warnings, cultural appropriation, micro-aggression or safe spaces? And why are some students going around arguing that academic freedom is no big deal? What's Happened To The University? offers an answer to the questions of why campus culture is undergoing such a dramatic transformation and why the term moral quarantine refers to the infantilising project of insulating students from offence and a variety of moral harms.

Unmaking the Public University

Author : Christopher Newfield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674060369
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Unmaking the Public University written by Christopher Newfield and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential American dream—equal access to higher education—was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken. Christopher Newfield argues that the financial and political crises of public universities are not the result of economic downturns or of ultimately valuable restructuring, but of a conservative campaign to end public education’s democratizing influence on American society. Unmaking the Public University is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public universities, deceiving the public to serve their own ends. It is a deep and revealing analysis that is long overdue. Newfield carefully describes how this campaign operated, using extensive research into public university archives. He launches the story with the expansive vision of an equitable and creative America that emerged from the post-war boom in college access, and traces the gradual emergence of the anti-egalitarian “corporate university,” practices that ranged from racial policies to research budgeting. Newfield shows that the culture wars have actually been an economic war that a conservative coalition in business, government, and academia have waged on that economically necessary but often independent group, the college-educated middle class. Newfield’s research exposes the crucial fact that the culture wars have functioned as a kind of neutron bomb, one that pulverizes the social and culture claims of college grads while leaving their technical expertise untouched. Unmaking the Public University incisively sets the record straight, describing a forty-year economic war waged on the college-educated public, and awakening us to a vision of social development shared by scientists and humanists alike.

The End of College

Author : Kevin Carey
Publisher : Riverhead Books
ISBN 13 : 1594634041
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book The End of College written by Kevin Carey and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The rise of the internet, new technologies, and free and open higher education are radically altering college forever, and this book explores the paradigm changes that will affect students, parents, educators and employers as it explains how we can take advantage of the new opportunities ahead"--

Religion in the University

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300243707
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Religion in the University written by Nicholas Wolterstorff and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world's leading philosophers, this is a powerful defense of religion's role within the modern university What is religion's place within the academy today? Are the perspectives of religious believers acceptable in an academic setting? In this lucid and penetrating essay, Nicholas Wolterstorff ranges from Max Weber and John Locke to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charles Taylor to argue that religious orientations and voices do have a home in the modern university, and he offers a sketch of what that home should be like. He documents the remarkable changes have occurred within the academy over the past five decades with regard to how knowledge is understood. During the same period, profound philosophical advancements have also been made in our understanding of religious belief. These shifting ideals, taken together, have created an environment that is more pluralistic than secular. Tapping into larger debates on freedom of expression and intellectual diversity, Wolterstorff believes a scholarly ethic should guard us against becoming, in Weber's words, "specialists without spirit and sensualists without heart."

The Christian vs. The University

Author : Garrison McKeen Cattell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105552349
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Christian vs. The University written by Garrison McKeen Cattell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known to hundreds of thousands of students and alumni of the Pennsylvania State University as "The Willard Preacher," Garrison (Gary) Cattell has been open-air evangelizing there daily since 1982. Through a series of poignant and heartfelt letters of advice addressed to a young Christian convert, this book captures the essence of his lifelong preaching ministry. It is recommended for students, inquirers to the Christian Faith, and anyone struggling to find and defend Truth on today's college campus.

The University of Oklahoma

Author : David W. Levy
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806181931
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The University of Oklahoma written by David W. Levy and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first in a projected three-volume definitive history, traces the University’s progress from territorial days to 1917. David W. Levy examines the people and events surrounding the school’s formation and development, chronicling the determined ambition of pioneers to transform a seemingly barren landscape into a place where a worthy institution of higher education could thrive. The University of Oklahoma was established by the territorial legislature in 1890. With that act, Norman became the educational center of the future state. Levy captures the many factors—academic, political, financial, religious—that shaped the University. Drawing on a great depth of research in primary documents, he depicts the University’s struggles to meet its goals as it confronted political interference, financial uncertainty, and troubles ranging from disastrous fires to populist witch hunts. Yet he also portrays determined teachers and optimistic students who understood the value of a college education. Written in an engaging style and enhanced by an array of historical photographs, this volume is a testimony to the citizens who overcame formidable obstacles to build a school that satisfied their ambitions and embodied their hopes for the future.

The University in Crumbs

Author : Robert Porter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538165333
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The University in Crumbs written by Robert Porter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupying a space in-between conventional scholarship and imaginative storytelling, The University in Crumbs: A Register of Things Seen and Heard is an experimental work that dramatizes the everyday life of the academy. Consisting primarily of a series of five first-person reports, Robert Porter, Kerry-Ann Porter and Iain Mackenzie provide the reader with a number of stories that attempt to capture some of their everyday experiences of academic life in the UK, roughly between 2017 and 2022. Self-consciously written in a subjective and conversational register, and often in dialogical form, The University in Crumbs is an accessible series of interrelated narratives that allow us to develop a concrete sense of the grain, texture and feel for what it might be like to work in the academy at a specific point in time. These stories, first-person reports, dialogues, come alive, acquire their meaning, force and pragmatic effect by way of a rather unique circumlocutory form. There is a directedness to the everyday talk engaged in by Robert, Kerry-Ann and Iain that nonetheless, simultaneously, indirectly loops in and out of a kind of technical academic talk that provides the book its light and shade. University in Crumbs is an experimental work that implicitly and explicitly animates philosophy, social, cultural and political theory through first-person experiences and, in so doing, breathes new life into what can often otherwise remain rather conventional and technical academic language-games. More than that, this book dramatizes ideas and concepts in ways perhaps less burdened by the weight of canonical tradition, and encourages those readers with the talent to portray their social world differently to be more licentious and less bashful in putting such talents to work.

Register of the University of California

Author : University of California (1868-1952)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)

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The University of Manitoba

Author : J.M. Bumsted
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887552684
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The University of Manitoba written by J.M. Bumsted and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2001-11-15 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1877, just seven years after the founding of the province itself, the University of Manitoba has grown to become an international centre of research and study. It is the birthplace of discoveries such as the cure for Rh disease of newborns and the development of Canola, and its alumni include Marshal McLuhan, Margaret Laurence, Monty Hall, Israel Asper and Ovide Mercredi.Historian J.M. Bumsted looks at how the university was forged out of the assembly of several, small, denominational colleges, and how it survived and even thrived during challenges such as the 1932 defalcation and the 1950 Manitoba flood. He gives special attention to student life at the university, tracing the changes, from Freshie initiations in the 1920s and student musicals in the 1950s to the activism of the 1960s and 1970s.The University of Manitoba: An Illustrated History is an entertaining and lively social history of an institution whose development has reflected the changes of society at large.

The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis

Author : David C. Perry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131745409X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis written by David C. Perry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating topics in urban development, real estate, higher education administration, urban design, and campus landscape architecture, this is the first book to explore the role of the university as developer. Accessible and clearly written, and including contributions from authorities in a wide range of related areas, it offers a rich array of case studies and analyses that clarify the important roles that universities play in the growth and development of cities. The cases describe a host of university practices, community responses, and policy initiatives surrounding university real estate development. Through a careful blending of academic analysis and practical, hands-on administrative and political information, the book charts new ground in the study of the university and the city.

The University of Michigan, an Encyclopedic Survey ...: pt. 8. Libraries. The press. Museums and collections. The School of Public Health. The institutes. Television and broadcasting. Buildings and lands. pt. 9. Student life and organizations. Athletics. Index

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Author : University of Michigan
Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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A Record of the University of Pennsylvania Men Residing in New York City and Vicinity

Author : Harry Bowers Mingle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Record of the University of Pennsylvania Men Residing in New York City and Vicinity written by Harry Bowers Mingle and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: