Overview
New realities in US higher education are a crisis across the field. The death of official race-based affirmative action is but the tip of an iceberg. This book provides new ideas for facing the main challenges and problems: the US Supreme Court ban of Affirmative Action; falling enrollment and low retention; downsizing and moribund humanities; the unjust situation of adjunct instructors; college firsts confronting social class; student mental health and microaggression; disruptive free speech; AI as mind numbing; campus dangers and insecurity; anti-intellectual ideological political pressure. The new ideas and policy changes proposed here result in a new model of belonging for the multiplicities of race, ethnicity, gender, class, age, and nationality––and more––in actual and potential college communities.
Full Product Details
Author: Naomi Zack
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Weight: 0.490kg
ISBN: 9798881805142
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 24 January 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
In Multiplicity, Belonging, and Free Speech in US Higher Education, Naomi Zack brilliantly demonstrates how moral philosophy can contribute to challenges facing the contemporary American University. Having explored these issues with her many students, Zack brings to us fresh approaches that address chronic contemporary challenges: student admissions and retention, racial and class diversity, adjunct faculty, responsible speech, a better anchoring of the humanities, and other matters that make equity, community, and academic investigations collectively sustainable. Her work makes an original and timely contribution to the growing, needed discourse on university ethics today. --James F. Keenan, S.J., Canisius Professor, Boston College, author of University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics
An innovative and insightful account of the major crises in US higher education today and how we might best solve them. --James P. Sterba, Philosophy Department, University of Notre Dame In this timely analysis, Zack offers a cogent diagnosis of the crises facing higher education, from the enrollment cliff to student protest and adjunct labor. Her compelling and cogent map of how colleges and universities can meet these challenges provides a road forward grounded in common sense, empathy, and belonging. --Jordan Pascoe, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Zack's lucid and balanced analysis of the challenges facing American colleges and universities makes the bold and original claim that ethical philosophy can offer constructive solutions. This book is a must-read for everyone who cares about access, excellence, and the future of liberal arts study in public higher education. --Emily Sohmer Tai, professor of history, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, former co-editor of CUNY's UFS Blog In Multiplicity, Belonging, and Free Speech in US Higher Education, Naomi Zack brilliantly demonstrates how moral philosophy can contribute to challenges facing the contemporary American University. Having explored these issues with her many students, Zack brings to us fresh approaches that address chronic contemporary challenges: student admissions and retention, racial and class diversity, adjunct faculty, responsible speech, a better anchoring of the humanities, and other matters that make equity, community, and academic investigations collectively sustainable. Her work makes an original and timely contribution to the growing, needed discourse on university ethics today. --James F. Keenan, S.J., Canisius Professor, Boston College, author of University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics
Author Information
Naomi Zack is professor of philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY. Her recent books are: Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies, The American Tragedy of COVID-19: Social and Political Crises of 2020, Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government , and Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics.
