Full Description
From the magazines and newspapers of the mid-1800s to movies and apps of the twenty-first century, popular culture and media in the United States provide prolific representations of higher education. This report positions artifacts of popular culture as pedagogic texts able to (mis)educate viewers and consumers regarding the purpose, values, and people of higher education. It:
Discusses scholarly literature across disciplines
Examines a diverse array of cross-media artifacts
Reveals pedagogical messages embedded in popular culture texts to prompt thinking about the multiple ways higher education isrepresented to society through the media.
Informative and engaging, higher education professionals can use the findings to intentionally challenge the (mis)educating messages about higher education through programs, policies, and perspectives.
This is the 4th issue of the 40th volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education issue, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.
Contents
Executive Summary vii
Foreword xi
Representing "U": Popular Higher Education 1
Introduction 1
Framing Higher Education in Popular Culture 2
Examining Popular Culture 6
(Mis)educating "U" 10
Once Upon a "U": A Brief Historical Examination of Popular Higher Education 13
Introduction 13
Popular and Prolific "U": Examining Popular Culture 13
Concluding Thoughts 19
Being "U": The Setting of Higher Education 21
Introduction 21
Being an Institution of Higher Education: Thematic Discourses 22
Being an Institution of Higher Education Too: The Salience of Type 32
Concluding Thoughts 42
Running "U": Administrators in Popular Culture 43
Introduction 43
Being a Higher Education Administrator: Types and Presence 44
Being a Higher Education Administrator: Thematic Discourses 46
(Mis)running "U"? 50
Professing "U": Faculty in Popular Culture 53
Introduction 53
Categorizing Popular Culture Professors 54
Trusting the Professoriate 58
White, Straight, and Male: The Professorial Status Quo and Alternative Narratives 64
The Pop Culture Ceiling: Gendered Challenges to the Status Quo 71
Concluding Thoughts 79
Learning From "U": College Students in Popular Culture 81
Introduction 81
Shaping Popular Culture College Students Through Institutional Status 82
Popularity and Privilege in College Student Popular Culture 90
Concluding Thoughts 107
(Re)educating "U": Learning From Popular Culture 109
Introduction 109
Opportunities for (Re)education 111
Future Popular Culture Research 122
Conclusion 124
Notes 125
References 127
Name Index 137
Subject Index 141
About the Author 145
