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The Attack on Higher Education
AmericanĀ higher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia asĀ corrupt,Ā irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts, attacks on liberal arts and humanitiesĀ disciplines, faculty layoffs and retrenchments, technology displacements,Ā corporatization, and campus closings have accelerated over the past decade. In this timely volume, Ronald Musto draws on historicalĀ precedent -Ā Henry VIII'sĀ dissolutionĀ of British monasteries in the 1530s - forĀ his study of the current threats to American higher education. He shows how a triad of forces - authority, separateness, andĀ innovation -Ā enabledĀ monasteries to succeed, and then suddenly and unexpectedly to fail. Musto applies this analogy to contemporary academia. Despite higher education's vital centrality to American culture and economy, a powerful, anti-liberal narrative is severely damaging itsĀ reputationĀ among parents, voters, and politicians. Musto offers a comprehensive account of this narrative from the mid-twentieth century to the present, as well as a new set of arguments to counter criticisms and rebuild the image of higher education.
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The Attack on Higher Education
The Attack on Higher Education
AmericanĀ higher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia asĀ corrupt,Ā irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts, attacks on liberal arts and humanitiesĀ disciplines, faculty layoffs and retrenchments, technology displacements,Ā corporatization, and campus closings have accelerated over the past decade. In this timely volume, Ronald Musto draws on historicalĀ precedent -Ā Henry VIII'sĀ dissolutionĀ of British monasteries in the 1530s - forĀ his study of the current threats to American higher education. He shows how a triad of forces - authority, separateness, andĀ innovation -Ā enabledĀ monasteries to succeed, and then suddenly and unexpectedly to fail. Musto applies this analogy to contemporary academia. Despite higher education's vital centrality to American culture and economy, a powerful, anti-liberal narrative is severely damaging itsĀ reputationĀ among parents, voters, and politicians. Musto offers a comprehensive account of this narrative from the mid-twentieth century to the present, as well as a new set of arguments to counter criticisms and rebuild the image of higher education.
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AmericanĀ higher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia asĀ corrupt,Ā irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts, attacks on liberal arts and humanitiesĀ disciplines, faculty layoffs and retrenchments, technology displacements,Ā corporatization, and campus closings have accelerated over the past decade. In this timely volume, Ronald Musto draws on historicalĀ precedent -Ā Henry VIII'sĀ dissolutionĀ of British monasteries in the 1530s - forĀ his study of the current threats to American higher education. He shows how a triad of forces - authority, separateness, andĀ innovation -Ā enabledĀ monasteries to succeed, and then suddenly and unexpectedly to fail. Musto applies this analogy to contemporary academia. Despite higher education's vital centrality to American culture and economy, a powerful, anti-liberal narrative is severely damaging itsĀ reputationĀ among parents, voters, and politicians. Musto offers a comprehensive account of this narrative from the mid-twentieth century to the present, as well as a new set of arguments to counter criticisms and rebuild the image of higher education.
