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Old School, New School

A conversation between a senior faculty member and an up-and-coming administrator.

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By Mary Churchill September 30, 2011
Michael Brown and Mary Churchill sum up their beliefs and hopes for the future of higher education.
By Michael Brown August 23, 2011
Counting public engagement in tenure-and-promotion decisions raises complex questions that need to settled so that scholars can be rewarded for their work as public intellectuals.
By Mary Churchill August 10, 2011
Vague programs can be ineffectual. Instead, let’s encourage faculty and students to do good in real communities of actual people.
By Mary Churchill August 8, 2011
Even worse than the anti-intellectualism rampant in U.S. society is an attitude within universities that doesn’t reward academics for public engagement.
By Mary Churchill July 26, 2011
When we suppress dissent among contingent faculty, under the mistaken notion that there is no place for politics on our campuses, says Mary Churchill, everyone loses—students, teachers, and society.
By Michael Brown July 21, 2011
Politics is our recognition of a collective life—a civil society—and the humanities reveal our need for both, says Michael Brown.
By Mary Churchill July 15, 2011
Enough with theoretical debate and longing for a past that never was—institutions need to translate theories into practical changes that can actually be implemented now.
By Michael Brown July 1, 2011
It’s time to save the humanities and social sciences from commercial policies and values that have no place in higher education, says Michael Brown.
By Mary Churchill June 27, 2011
Bringing together the realities of capitalism and the ideals of democracy is higher education’s pathway to a shared vision for the future.
By Mary Churchill June 22, 2011
The so-called attempt to “protect” the humanities is designed to protect other fields from anything that raises questions about the increasingly narrow ways in which they are defined.
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