Crisis On Campus A Bold Plan For Reforming Our Colleges And Universities Mark C Taylor by Mark C. Taylor 9780307593290, 0307593290 instant download after payment.

Taylor expands on his controversial 2009 op-ed essay in the New York Times that questioned long-standing traditions and practices of American universities, from tenure to strict delineation of academic departments. Worries about outdated practices in higher education are exacerbated by shrinking endowments of universities hurt by the financial crisis, a crisis threatening the very existence of some institutions. Taylor begins with a historical perspective, including Immanuel Kant’s enduring vision of the university and the evolution to overspecialization that drives academic disciplines, tenure, and the valuing of research over teaching. Drawing on his experiences at Williams College and Columbia University, Taylor also offers examples of creative solutions from multidisciplinary courses taught by shared faculty to teleconferencing technology. Universities might also consider partnering with other universities, museums, and think tanks and even franchising universities globally. Taylor argues passionately for more open ideas on what is valuable to learn, in what format and through what methods, for a generation raised on the Internet and iPods. --Vanessa Bush

“Mark Taylor—a deeply original scholar and nationally celebrated teacher—sees American higher education as a bubble about to burst. For your students’ sake, your teachers’ sake, your childrens’ sake, and your country’s sake, read this book while there is still time.”
            -Jack Miles
“Sure to provoke heated debate, this book convincingly tells us what we don’t want to hear: our colleges and universities are no longer sustainable—either financially or programmatically. Mark Taylor provocatively calls for big changes, both in how we use technology to help deliver educational services and in the role of professors. We should pay attention, or we will pay an enormous price.”
            -Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
“One of the jobs of a public intellectual is to warn us when he sees a fast-approaching freight train bearing down on us. In Crisis on Campus, Mark Taylor does that and much more. He offers specific and often radical suggestions about how to make higher education more fulfilling for students and more relevant to the networked world of the 21st century.”
            -Bill Bradley
“This is a book that needed to be written and one that must be read. Mark Taylor not only reveals an unclothed emperor; he also provides guidance to those of us who would properly serve as weavers. The only thing better than reading this book would be to have written it.”
            -E. Gordon Gee, President of the Ohio State University
“Feisty . . . Measured in tone but devastating.”
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