Academic Cultures

Perspectives from the Future
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-1-4214-5604-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Rethinking the American research university over the next seventy-five years.

How might scholars writing in the year 2100 interpret the academic culture of the early twenty-first century? How might they assess the role research universities and liberal arts colleges played in shaping the social, economic, political, and environmental contours of the century? In Academic Cultures, Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars convene a diverse group of scholars to imagine the future of the American research university while reconsidering the contemporary academy through the lens of speculative hindsight.

Across disciplines, contributors ask whether the epistemic norms, governance structures, incentive systems, and institutional designs of contemporary universities may either enable or constrain society's capacity to confront systemic challenges such as the climate crisis, demographic change, technological disruption, and democratic fragility. The volume interrogates core academic values—free inquiry, peer review, shared governance, knowledge production for the common good—and asks whether they remain sufficient in a world defined by accelerating complexity. Will change within the academy remain incremental, or is more fundamental transformation already underway? Can research universities move beyond inherited design constraints to assume more prominent roles in fostering responsible innovation and inclusive growth?

Building on Crow and Dabars' earlier work on institutional redesign, this collection invites leaders, trustees, faculty, and policymakers to reexamine the structures and purposes of the contemporary research university. By imagining how future generations might evaluate our present decisions, Academic Cultures offers a compelling framework for rethinking the academic sector at a moment of consequential institutional change.

Contributors: David B. Allison, Derrick M. Anderson, John Seely Brown, Carol T. Christ, Jonathan R. Cole, France Córdova, Michael M. Crow, William B. Dabars, Peter Dear, David H. Guston, Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, Sheila Jasanoff, Roberta R. Katz, Anthony Lane, Margaret Levi, Andrew Maynard, Marcia McNutt, Naomi Oreskes, David W. Orr, Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Sheldon Rothblatt, Abby Smith Rumsey, David J. Staley, Ayanna Thompson

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crow, Michael M.

Dabars, William B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungswesen: Organisation und Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
Glimpses from Academic Futures: A Preface and Introduction, by William B. Dabars
Part 1: Perspective on Academic Cultures
1. Academic Cultures: Toward Perspective from the Future, by Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars
2. Monuments of Unageing Intellect, by Jonathan R. Cole
Part 2: Speculative Approaches to Academic Futures
3. Beyond the University: Coevolution of Cities and Learning Infrastructures for a Planetary Transition, by Ann Pendleton-Jullian and John Seely Brown
4. gAI(a), Or, A Lecture on the History of the University, by David H. Guston
5. Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft, by Andrew Maynard
6. Romantic Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century, by Peter Dear
7. Report of the 2100 Commission on Higher Education: Background Paper, by Roberta Katz, Margaret Levi, and Abby Rumsey
Part 3: Melioristic Aspirations and Cautionary Tales
8. A Compact on Fire: America's Knowledge Crisis in the Twenty-First Century, by Sheila Jasanoff
9. Fast Thinkers but Slow Learners on a Hotter Planet: Hubris and the Human Prospect, by David W. Orr
10. The Liberal Arts in the Twenty-First Century: A Cautionary Tale, by Ayanna Thompson
11. The Broken Culture of Academic Writing, by Naomi Oreskes
Part 4: Academic Cultures in the Near Term
12. Reinventing America's Research Universities: A View Forward, by Marcia McNutt, France Córdova, and David B. Allison
13. Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and the Future of Academic Cultures, by Freeman A. Hrabowski III, Derrick M. Anderson, and Anthony Lane
14. Tradition, Cost, and Scale: Challenges to the Contemporary Resarch University, by Carol T. Christ
15. A University for the Uncategorizable, by David J. Staley
Part 5: Retrospect and Prospect
16. Much Ado About Something: Postscript with Commentary, by Sheldon Rothblatt
Author Bios

Über Autor(innen)

Dabars, William B.
William B. Dabars is the senior director of research for the New American University in the Office of the President and a research professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. He is a coauthor of Designing the New American University and The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education.

Crow, Michael M.
Michael M. Crow has served as the president of Arizona State University since 2002. He is the coauthor of Designing the New American University and The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education.

Michael M. Crow has served as the president of Arizona State University since 2002. William B. Dabars is the senior director of research for the New American University in the Office of the President and a research professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. Crow and Dabars are the coauthors of Designing the New American University and The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education.