The University We Need Reforming American Higher Education 1st edition by Warren 1594039909 9781594039904

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• ISBN 10: 1594039909
• ISBN 13: 9781594039904
• Author: Warren Treadgold

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.

Table of contents:

1. Do Universities Matter?

The Power of Universities

Universities at an Impasse

2. The Problems

The Decline of the University

Sources of the Problems

Problematic Solutions

3. The Origins of Campus Leftism

A Vague but Powerful Ideology

Leftism and Postmodernism

4. What Is Good Teaching?

Students Grading Professors

The Elusive Criteria

Elements of Good Teaching

5. What Is Good Research?

The Issue of Tenure

Types of Academic Research

How Research Is Judged Now

How to Judge Research

6. Proposals for Legislation

Two National Boards

Possible Objections

Other Legislation

7. A Proposal for a University

A New University

Establishing the University

Possible Objections

8. Inspiring a Renaissance

Cultural Brilliance

Encouraging Brilliance

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