Failing the Future

Auteur

Annette Kolodny is the College of Humanities Professor Emerita of American Literature and Culture at The University of Arizona. She is the author The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630–1860 and The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. She is the editor of Joseph Nicolar's The Life and Traditions of the Red Man, also published by Duke University Press.

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"This is a welcome and outstanding work. Particularly at this time, with the avalanche of right-wing and largely mindless criticism of universities, this book clearly sets forth the actual situation, the real problems, and suggests useful and possible solutions to the complex situation of higher education in our country today."--Carolyn Heilbrun, Avalon Professor in the Humanities Emerita, Columbia University

Résumé
Offering a sobering view of what may lie ahead, this title explains the reasons for the financial crisis in higher education today and boldly addresses the challenges that remain ignored, including changing demographics both on campus and across the country and the accelerating globalisation of higher education and advanced research.

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Acknowledgments ix
A Personal Preface: Reflections on Five Years in a Dean’s Office I

1. Facing the Future: An Introduction 33
2. “60 Minutes” at the University of Arizona: The Polemic against Tenure 53
3. Raising Standards While Lowering Anxieties: Rethinking the Promotion and Tenure Process 81
4. Paying the Price of Antifeminist Intellectual Harassment 98
5. Creating the Family-Friendly Campus 131
6. Teaching and Learning in a World of Cognitive Diversity 159
7. Setting an Agenda for Change 173
8. Failing the Future; or, How to Commit National Suicide at the End of the Twentieth Century 214
   A Closing Refrain: Reflections at a Graduation 249
   Appendix 1. University of Arizona College of Humanities Promotion and Tenure Procedures 257
   Appendix 2. Summary Checklist of Selected Family-Friendly Initiatives and Programs 269
   Notes 273
   Works Cited 281
   Index 291