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Record Nr.

UNINA9911049138803321

Autore

Bernard-Donals Michael F.

Titolo

The vulnerability of public higher education / / Michael Bernard-Donals

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ohio State University Press, 2023

ISBN

0-8142-8356-X

Disciplina

378.1/20973

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - United States - Faculty

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States

Academic freedom - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Commonplaces of governance -- Faculty rights and responsibilities and the urgency of justice -- Academic freedom, democracy, and professional rights -- Expertise, discipline, and faculty autonomy -- The vulnerabilities of institutional diversity -- Becoming rhetorical.

Sommario/riassunto

"In the last forty years, public higher education in the United States has become vulnerable due to changes in funding and public opinion of higher education. Through case studies, mostly involving education policy changes, this vulnerability is reframed as a tool that university faculty can use to adapt their future work"--