{"product_id":"failing-the-future-9780822321866","title":"Failing the Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering a sobering view of what may lie ahead, this title explains the reasons for the financial crisis in higher education today and boldly addresses the challenges that remain ignored, including changing demographics both on campus and across the country and the accelerating globalisation of higher education and advanced research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Annette Kolodny has turned her articulate mind and her marvelous imagination to the world of academic leadership. \u003ci\u003eFailing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e is personally moving, with a sharp and honest focus, and it should be read by all those who care about the future of higher education.”—Barry Munitz, President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust and former Chancellor of the California State University System\u003cbr\u003e“This book should lead to an opening of the American mind. It is possibly the best book on higher education in the last decade. It is full of ideas that one needs to wrestle with, discuss, and chew over in faculty lounges, over e-mail, in journals, and in faculty senates. \u003ci\u003eFailing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e shows us not only what we must do, but explains HOW.”—Emily Toth, author of \u003ci\u003eMs. Mentor’s Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a welcome and outstanding work. Particularly at this time, with the avalanche of right-wing and largely mindless criticism of universities, this book clearly sets forth the actual situation, the real problems, and suggests useful and possible solutions to the complex situation of higher education in our country today.”—Carolyn Heilbrun, Avalon Professor in the Humanities Emerita, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e A Personal Preface: Reflections on Five Years in a Dean’s Office I\u003cbr\u003e 1. Facing the Future: An Introduction 33\u003cbr\u003e 2. “60 Minutes” at the University of Arizona: The Polemic against Tenure 53\u003cbr\u003e 3. Raising Standards While Lowering Anxieties: Rethinking the Promotion and Tenure Process 81\u003cbr\u003e 4. Paying the Price of Antifeminist Intellectual Harassment 98\u003cbr\u003e 5. Creating the Family-Friendly Campus 131\u003cbr\u003e 6. Teaching and Learning in a World of Cognitive Diversity 159\u003cbr\u003e 7. Setting an Agenda for Change 173\u003cbr\u003e 8. Failing the Future; or, How to Commit National Suicide at the End of the Twentieth Century 214\u003cbr\u003e A Closing Refrain: Reflections at a Graduation 249\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 1. University of Arizona College of Humanities Promotion and Tenure Procedures 257\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 2. Summary Checklist of Selected Family-Friendly Initiatives and Programs 269\u003cbr\u003e Notes 273\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 281\u003cbr\u003e Index 291\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884712243543,"sku":"9780822321866","price":87.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822321866.jpg?v=1722533134","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/failing-the-future-9780822321866","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}