Description
An imaginative tour of the contemporary university as it could be: a place to discover self-knowledge, meaning, and purpose.
What if college were not just a means of acquiring credentials, but a place to pursue our formation as whole persons striving to lead lives of meaning and purpose? In Undeclared, Chris Higgins confronts the contemporary university in a bid to reclaim a formative mission for higher education. In a series of searching essays and pointed interludes, Higgins challenges us to acknowledge how far our practices have drifted from our ideals, asking: What would it look like to build a college from the ground up to support self-discovery and personal integration? What does it mean to be a public university, and are there any left? How can the humanities help the job-ified university begin to take vocation seriously?
Cutting through the underbrush of received ideas, Higgins follows the insight where it leads, clearing a path from the corporate multiversity to the renaissance in higher education that was Black Mountain College and back again. Along the way, we tour a campus bent on becoming a shopping mall, accompany John Dewey through a midlife crisis, and witness the first "happening.” Through diverse and grounded philosophical engagements, Undeclared assembles the resources to expand the contemporary educational imagination.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue xvii
Campus Tour 1
SOUL ACTION: THE SEARCH FOR INTEGRITY IN GENERAL EDUCATION 13
The Formidable Task of Formation 13
Roots and Branches 27
Scattering Requirements 46
A Skeleton Faculty 60
Chest Knowledge 71
Coda 88
New Student Orientation 93
WIDE AWAKE: AESTHETIC EDUCATION AT BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE 109
The Road to Black Mountain 109
An Allegory of Arrival 124
Who Is the Formative Educator? 141
Theater and Wings 157
Learning Here and Now 176
Public Hearing 189
JOB PROSPECTS: VOCATIONAL FORMATION AS HUMANE LEARNING 201
Life in Panem 201
The Great Vocational Question 207
Working with Integrity 220
A New Organ 236
The Last Butler 249
Notes 265
Index 377
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