Full Description
Faculties is a call to action, a sourcebook, and a how-to guide for academic colleagues who want to contribute to the administrative and educational decisions being made about the future of our institutions. There is no going back to the version of US higher education that existed a couple of decades or even a couple of years ago. Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene encourage faculty and allies to incite and participate in change, offering models of successful, constructive collaboration at a destructive and demoralizing time for higher education. Presented in the form of dialogues between Davidson and Greene, two of higher education's most innovative leaders, Faculties focuses on the urgency of coalition building, providing data and analyses of the structural, financial, ideological, and organizational circumstances that can support or inhibit productive change in colleges, universities, and research institutions. Faculties retains a welcoming, conversational tone while incorporating extensive references and citations and addressing drastic changes to higher education, offering the evidence and inspiration needed to enact institutional transformation now.
Contents
Prologue 1
1. Why Are We Having This Conversation Now? 23
2. What's Working in Higher Ed Today? 41
3. Who Inspires Us? 61
4. Meeting External Challenges 81
5. Facing Internal Challenges 102
6. Academic Freedom and Accountability 133
7. Shared Governance and Coalition Building 158
8. Ten Moves to Jump-Start Your Revolution 180
Acknowledgments 189
Notes 193
Useful Books and Articles That Prepare Us to Incite Constructive Change / Compiled by William Edward Arguelles 201
Bibliography 217
Index 221
