Academic Friendship
in The Aims of Higher Education
May 2015; p ublished online January 2016 .
Chapter. Subjects: Higher and Further Education. 9596 words.
This chapter offers a view of the aims of university teaching. The author depicts and defends a particular conception of the professor-student relationship and then uses this conception to...
Academic Identity Politics
in Cornell
July 2014; p ublished online August 2016 .
Chapter. Subjects: Higher and Further Education. 16641 words.
This chapter examines how the issue of ethnic studies at Cornell University evolved into a component of what came to be known as “multiculturalism” or “identity politics.” It considers how...
Academic Science as an Economic Engine
in Creating the Market University
January 2012; p ublished online October 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Higher and Further Education. 8178 words.
This chapter begins by briefly setting out the book's purpose, which is to address the question of how and why universities, that once self-consciously held themselves apart from the...
Afterword
in Wendell Berry and Higher Education
May 2017; p ublished online January 2018 .
Chapter. Subjects: Higher and Further Education. 1452 words.
There aren’t many English Departments in which two-fifths of the professors study Wendell Berry. So when Jeff took a job as an Americanist at Spring Arbor University and joined Jack, a...
The Aims of Higher Education
May 2015; p ublished online January 2016 .
Book. Subjects: Higher and Further Education. 180 pages.
The book is a collection of essays about ethical issues arising in selective higher education. The chapters, all by distinguished scholars, including one eminent university president,...
American Studies: Interdisciplinarity over Half a Century
in In Defense of Disciplines
January 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Higher and Further Education. 13355 words.
American studies was one of the first academic fields to embrace the principle of interdisciplinarity. Chapter 8 reviews the history of the field since the late 1940s, summarizes its main...
Antidisciplinarity
in In Defense of Disciplines
January 2014; p ublished online May 2014 .
Chapter. Subjects: Higher and Further Education. 12168 words.
Chapter 7 considers the question of whether successful interdisciplinary lines of inquiry will congeal into new research fields or disciplinary subspecialties. The analysis suggests that...
Autonomy as Intellectual Virtue
in The Aims of Higher Education
May 2015; p ublished online January 2016 .
Chapter. Subjects: Higher and Further Education. 8000 words.
One standard argument in support of higher education is that it is valuable because it promotes students’ autonomy, where ‘autonomy’ is roughly understood to be self-reliance and...
Balance
in Connecting in College
November 2016; p ublished online May 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Higher and Further Education. 10712 words.
Chapter 2 examines students’ discussions of how their friends are involved in their academic lives. Nearly all respondents engaged in “testimonies of balance,” describing themselves as...
Being a “Real” College in America
in Selling Hope and College
April 2017; p ublished online September 2017 .
Chapter. Subjects: Higher and Further Education. 13610 words.
This chapter focuses on how Ravenwood's community perceives and tangles with merit, how numbers have a privileged place in conversations about entrance examinations, accreditation metrics,...
