Up the university: re-creating higher in America
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1993
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| adam_text | Up the
University
Re-Creating
Higher Education
in America
ROBERT and JON
SOLOMON
• T
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Reading, Massachusetts • Menlo Park, California • New York
Don Mills, Ontario • Wokingham, England • Amsterdam • Bonn
Sydney • Singapore • Tokyo • Madrid • San Juan
Paris • Seoul • Milan • Mexico City • Taipei
Contents
PREFACE xv
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxi
INTRODUCTION 1
PART I • The Mission of the University 9
1 The Multiversity 9
2 The Role of Research 12
3 Education Is the Mission of the University 15
4 The University as an Investment 17
5 What Is an Education? 19
6 Democracy: The Great Experiment 22
PART II * The Marketplace of Ideas 27
7 Money and Metaphors 27
8 Education and Free Enterprise 29
9 The University Is Not a Corporation 32
10 The Virtues of the University: Waste and Anarchy 34
11 Management Mania 36
12 Evaluation Frenzy 38
13 The University as a Social Welfare System 40
PART III * The University as a Community 43
14 The University Is, First of All, a Community 43
15 Leaders, Not Administrators 45
16 Academic Ethics 48
17 Academic Fraud 51
18 The University as a Feudal Institution 52
19 The Museum Metaphor 54
20 In Praise of Eccentricity 56
21 The Social Responsibility of the University 58
PART IV * The Students 61
22 The Joy of Teaching 61
23 Treat Students as Adults 64
24 The New Generation of Students 65
25 Students Helping Students:
Getting Students to Run the University 67
26 Telling Them Where to Go: Advising and Orientation 68
27 The Answer to Financial Need: Hire the Students 70
28 Expand Fraternities and Sororities 72
29 Once a Student: The Alumni 74
PART V * Students in the Open University 77
30 Admissions: Let Them All In 77
31 Stop Sending Kids to College 81
32 SOTA (Students Older Than Average) 82
33 Stop Passing the Buck (to Secondary Schools):
Remedial Education 84
34 In Loco Parentis 86
35 The Problem of Authority 89
viii • Contents
36 Sabbaticals for Everyone 91
37 Dropping Out 92
PART VI • Students and Their Careers 95
38 The University Is Not a Trade School, But 95
39 Two Cultures, 1992: Business and the Humanities 98
40 The Career Athlete 100
41 Are Graduate Students Students? Five Modest
Proposals 104
Graduate School—for Love, Not Money 105
Teach Them How to Teach - 106
Stop Exploitation 106
Stop Killing Creativity 107
End the Requirement of Ph D Dissertations 108
PART VII * Teach as If Education Counts in
42 The Good, the Bad, and the Barely Competent 111
43 The Future of the Mind 112
44 Liking the Students, Loving the Material 113
45 The Heart-to-Heart 115
46 Naming Names 115
47 Saying Hello 116
48 Does a Teacher Need Charisma? Teaching as
Entertainment 117
49 The Techniques of Teaching: From the Chalkboard
toTV 118
50 Big Classes Are OK 119
51 Survey Courses: In Praise of Superficiality 121
52 Lecturing as a Skill: It s Not All in the Textbook 123
53 Remember Who They Are, What They Carry
Away with Them 124
54 Teaching Is Hard Work 125
Contents • ix
PART VIII * Good Teaching, Bad Teaching 127
55 Good Teaching, Awful Teaching 127
56 Who Should Evaluate Teaching? 130
57 How to Use Teaching Evaluations 132
58 Teaching Awards 134
59 How to Encourage Good Teaching 135
60 Show a Commitment 137
PART IX » The Open Classroom 139
61 The Open Classroom 139
62 In Place of Requirements 140
63 The Curriculum as a Marketplace 141
64 The University Community: You Can Take It
Over There 143
65 Education and Exams 144
66 Testing the Tests 145
67 Stop Emphasizing Grades 147
68 Stop Emphasizing Degrees 149
69 Outside the Classroom: Beyond the Celebrity Culture 151
PART X • Teaching Values 155
70 Teaching Values (the Problem of Indoctrination) 155
71 Minimize Politics in the Classroom 157
72 Teaching Students to Think for Themselves 159
73 Teachers and Students: Students as Friends 162
74 Friends, Romance, and Sexual Harassment 163
PART XI • Books 167
75 Why Read Books? 167
76 Three Kinds of Literacy 169
x • Contents
77 Shooting the Canon: The Great-Book Debate 171
78 The Place of Primary Texts 173
79 The Used-Book Industry: A Conspiracy against
Students 175
80 Books in Translation 177
81 The Atlas and the Chronology 179
82 The Role of Pop Studies 180
83 So What Should They Read? 182
PART XII • Culture(s) and Correctness 183
84 What Is Culture? 183
85 Multiculturalism 184
86 Multiculturalism and Racism 186
87 The Most Insidious Form of Racism 188
88 Beyond Affirmative Action: What the University
Can Do about Racism 190
89 Open Cultural Horizons: Learn Other Languages 192
90 History Is Not in the Past 193
91 Criticizing Cultures 195
92 The Bogey of Relativism 197
93 Political Correctness 199
94 On Being Offensive 202
PART XIII * Professors 203
95 Who Killed Socrates? 203
96 Profscam: The Attack on the Professoriat 204
97 Who Are the Professors? (Their Dirty Little Secret) 206
98 Peter Abelard, Superstar 208
99 Making It: Celebrities, Sages, Scholars, Wizards, and
Entrepreneurs 209
100 The Problem of Autonomy 211
Contents • xi
101 Teaching Differences 213
102 Beyond Expertise 214
103 Respectability, Conformity, and Cowardice 217
104 Professors/Professionals: Curmudgeons, Cranks,
and Critics 218
PART XIV * The Open University 223
105 Socialize the Faculty: Create a Community 223
106 Teach One Another, and Open Up the University 225
107 Publishing and Research Reconsidered 226
108 On Popularization 229
109 The Bane of Our Existence: Why Is Campus
Politics So Nasty? 230
110 Break Up the English Department (and That s
Just a Start) 232
111 Academic Freedom • 236
PART XV * Get Rid of Tenure 243
112 The Horrors of Tenure 243
113 Maximize Security: Get Rid of Tenure 246
114 Alternatives to Tenure 249
115 End Competitive Salaries 251
116 Teaching: A Full-Time Job? 252
117 Academic Welfare: Deadwood 254
PART XVI * Leave Government to Clerks
and Desks 257
118 Who Runs the University? Who Should? 257
119 The Administration 259
120 The Cursus Honorum (Up the Corporate Ladder) 261
121 Hiring the Administration 263
xii • Contents
122 Replace the Professional Administrator - 265
123 Reorganize University Administration 267
124 Faculty (and Student) Governance 269
125 The President 271
126 Stop Screwing the Staff 272
PART XVII * Doing More with Less 273
127 Cutting Costs: Lean but Not Mean 273
128 Control Growth 274
129 Spend Grant, Gift, and Tax Dollars on Education 276
130 Bureaucratic Waste • 279
131 Who Pays for Research? 281
132 How Education Loses Out 283
Conclusion 287
133 MissionAborted Who s to Blame? 287
134 A Plea to Parents (Students, Too) 289
135 The Corporation and the University 291
136 The University and the State: A Final Suggestion 293
NOTES 295
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 305
INDEX 309
ABOUT THE AUTHORS 313
Contents • xiii
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