Author: Chris Brink
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781529200379
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How can we re-establish universities' social purpose? The solution lies with asking not only 'what are we good at?', but also 'what are we good for?'. Chris Brink shows how universities can - and should - promote positive social change.
The soul of a university
Author: Brink, Chris
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529200369
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. The current obsession with rankings and league tables has perpetuated inequality and is preventing social mobility. This book shows how universities can – and should - respond to societal challenges and promote positive social change.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529200369
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. The current obsession with rankings and league tables has perpetuated inequality and is preventing social mobility. This book shows how universities can – and should - respond to societal challenges and promote positive social change.
Restoring the Soul of the University
Author: Perry L. Glanzer
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830891633
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Politics/Public Life Has the American university gained the whole world but lost its soul? In terms of money, prestige, power, and freedom, American universities appear to have gained the academic world. But at what cost? We live in the age of the fragmented multiversity that has no unifying soul or mission. The multiversity in a post-Christian culture is characterized instead by curricular division, the professionalization of the disciplines, the expansion of administration, the loss of community, and the idolization of athletics. The situation is not hopeless. According to Perry L. Glanzer, Nathan F. Alleman, and Todd C. Ream, Christian universities can recover their soul—but to do so will require reimagining excellence in a time of exile, placing the liberating arts before the liberal arts, and focusing on the worship, love, and knowledge of God as central to the university. Restoring the Soul of the University is a pioneering work that charts the history of the university and casts an inspiring vision for the future of higher education.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830891633
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Politics/Public Life Has the American university gained the whole world but lost its soul? In terms of money, prestige, power, and freedom, American universities appear to have gained the academic world. But at what cost? We live in the age of the fragmented multiversity that has no unifying soul or mission. The multiversity in a post-Christian culture is characterized instead by curricular division, the professionalization of the disciplines, the expansion of administration, the loss of community, and the idolization of athletics. The situation is not hopeless. According to Perry L. Glanzer, Nathan F. Alleman, and Todd C. Ream, Christian universities can recover their soul—but to do so will require reimagining excellence in a time of exile, placing the liberating arts before the liberal arts, and focusing on the worship, love, and knowledge of God as central to the university. Restoring the Soul of the University is a pioneering work that charts the history of the university and casts an inspiring vision for the future of higher education.
The Soul of the American University
Author: George M. Marsden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195106504
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195106504
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.
The Lost Soul of Higher Education
Author: Ellen Schrecker
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595586032
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The professor and historian delivers a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education. Making a provocative foray into the public debates over higher education, acclaimed historian Ellen Schrecker argues that the American university is under attack from two fronts. On the one hand, outside pressure groups have staged massive challenges to academic freedom, beginning in the 1960s with attacks on faculty who opposed the Vietnam War, and resurfacing more recently with well-funded campaigns against Middle Eastern Studies scholars. Connecting these dots, Schrecker reveals a distinct pattern of efforts to undermine the legitimacy of any scholarly study that threatens the status quo. At the same time, Schrecker deftly chronicles the erosion of university budgets and the encroachment of private-sector influence into academic life. From the dwindling numbers of full-time faculty to the collapse of library budgets, The Lost Soul of Higher Education depicts a system increasingly beholden to corporate America and starved of the resources it needs to educate the new generation of citizens. A sharp riposte to the conservative critics of the academy by the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, The Lost Soul of Higher Education, reveals a system in peril—and defends the vital role of higher education in our democracy.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595586032
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The professor and historian delivers a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education. Making a provocative foray into the public debates over higher education, acclaimed historian Ellen Schrecker argues that the American university is under attack from two fronts. On the one hand, outside pressure groups have staged massive challenges to academic freedom, beginning in the 1960s with attacks on faculty who opposed the Vietnam War, and resurfacing more recently with well-funded campaigns against Middle Eastern Studies scholars. Connecting these dots, Schrecker reveals a distinct pattern of efforts to undermine the legitimacy of any scholarly study that threatens the status quo. At the same time, Schrecker deftly chronicles the erosion of university budgets and the encroachment of private-sector influence into academic life. From the dwindling numbers of full-time faculty to the collapse of library budgets, The Lost Soul of Higher Education depicts a system increasingly beholden to corporate America and starved of the resources it needs to educate the new generation of citizens. A sharp riposte to the conservative critics of the academy by the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, The Lost Soul of Higher Education, reveals a system in peril—and defends the vital role of higher education in our democracy.
The Soul of the American University Revisited
Author: George M. Marsden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190073314
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
"This volume ... is a revision and updating of The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994)"--Acknowledgments
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190073314
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
"This volume ... is a revision and updating of The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994)"--Acknowledgments
Excellence Without a Soul
Author: Harry Lewis
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1586485016
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Harvard professor and former Dean of Harvard College offers his provocative analysis of how America's great universities are failing students and the nation
Publisher: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1586485016
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Harvard professor and former Dean of Harvard College offers his provocative analysis of how America's great universities are failing students and the nation
Quality with Soul
Author: Robert Benne
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802847041
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book demonstrates that, despite much evidence to the contrary, there are still Christian colleges and universities of high academic quality that have also kept their religious heritages publicly relevant. Respected scholar Robert Benne explores how six schools from six different religious traditions (Calvin College, Wheaton College, St. Olaf College, Valparaiso University, Baylor University, and the University of Notre Dame) have maintained "quality with soul." These constructive case studies examine the vision, ethos, and personnel policies of each school, showing how--and why--its religious foundation remains strong.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802847041
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book demonstrates that, despite much evidence to the contrary, there are still Christian colleges and universities of high academic quality that have also kept their religious heritages publicly relevant. Respected scholar Robert Benne explores how six schools from six different religious traditions (Calvin College, Wheaton College, St. Olaf College, Valparaiso University, Baylor University, and the University of Notre Dame) have maintained "quality with soul." These constructive case studies examine the vision, ethos, and personnel policies of each school, showing how--and why--its religious foundation remains strong.
Christianity and the Soul of the University
Author: Douglas V. Henry
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Leading scholars explore the role of faith in the university setting
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Leading scholars explore the role of faith in the university setting
Education and the Soul
Author: John P. Miller
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791443422
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
With emphasis on preparing students for jobs, standards, and achievement testing, many think that North American education has become inwardly deadening, yet this book provides a counterbalance as it offers a way to nurture the soul in classrooms and schools.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791443422
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
With emphasis on preparing students for jobs, standards, and achievement testing, many think that North American education has become inwardly deadening, yet this book provides a counterbalance as it offers a way to nurture the soul in classrooms and schools.
The Soul of a University
Author: Chris Brink
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781529200379
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How can we re-establish universities' social purpose? The solution lies with asking not only 'what are we good at?', but also 'what are we good for?'. Chris Brink shows how universities can - and should - promote positive social change.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781529200379
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
How can we re-establish universities' social purpose? The solution lies with asking not only 'what are we good at?', but also 'what are we good for?'. Chris Brink shows how universities can - and should - promote positive social change.