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Ronald G. Musto

The Attack on Higher Education

The Dissolution of the American University

Ronald G. Musto

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Cambridge University Press
20 January 2022
Admissions procedures; Funding of education & student finance; Colleges of higher education; Universities; Public administration
American higher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia as corrupt, irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts, attacks on liberal arts and humanities disciplines, faculty layoffs and retrenchments, technology displacements, corporatization, and campus closings have accelerated over the past decade. In this timely volume, Ronald Musto draws on historical precedent - Henry VIII's dissolution of British monasteries in the 1530s - for his study of the current threats to American higher education. He shows how a triad of forces - authority, separateness, and innovation - enabled 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 its reputation 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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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 160mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   680g
ISBN:   9781108471923
ISBN 10:   1108471927
Pages:   370
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Part I. Historical Background: 1. Medieval monasteries; 2. The university in Europe; 3. The American University to 1968; 4. The retreat from 1968; Part II. Dissolution? Introduction: 5. Governance and boards; 6. Budget wars; 7. The scandal of academe; 8. Exchanging beliefs: the anti-enlightenment, from humanities to technologies; 9. Transformations, takeovers, closings; 10. Conclusions: new directions?

Award-winning historian Ronald Musto has taught at three universities and served at ACLS Humanities E-Book (co-director), Medieval Academy of America (executive director, editor of Speculum), and Italica Press (co-publisher). He is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He is co-author, with Eileen Gardiner, of The Digital Humanities.

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