TY  - BOOK
AU  - Treadgold,Warren
TI  - The university we need: reforming American higher education 
SN  - 9781594039904
AV  - LA227.4 .T375 2018
U1  - 378.73 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Encounter Books
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - United States
KW  - Educational change
KW  - Enseignement supérieur
KW  - Finalités
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Enseignement
KW  - Réforme
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Higher
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Do universities matter? -- The problems -- The origins of campus leftism -- What is good teaching? -- What is good research? -- Proposals for legislation -- A proposal for a university -- Inspiring a renaissance
N2  - Though many people know that American universities now offer an inadequate and incoherent education from a leftist viewpoint that excludes moderate and conservative ideas, few people understand how much this matters, how it happened, how bad it is, or what can be done about it. In The University We Need, Professor Warren Treadgold shows the crucial role of universities in American culture and politics, the causes of their decline in administrative bloat and inept academic hiring, the effects of the decline on teaching and research, and some possible ways of reversing the downward trend. He explains that one suggested reform, the abolition of tenure, would further increase the power of administrators, further decrease the quality of professors, and make universities even more doctrinaire and intolerant. Instead, he proposes federal legislation to monitor the quality and honesty of professors and to limit spending on administration to no more than 20 percent of university budgets (Harvard now spends 40 percent). Finally, he offers a specific proposal for the founding of a new leading university that could seriously challenge the dominance of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and Berkeley and attract conservative and moderate faculty and students now isolated in universities and colleges that are either leftist or mediocre. While agreeing with conservative critics that universities are in severe crisis, Treadgold believes that the universities' problems largely transcend ideology and have grown worse partly because disputants on both sides of the academic debate have misunderstood the methods and goals of higher education. --From publisher's description
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