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Breakdown of Higher Education : How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done by John M. Ellis (2020, Hardcover)
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PublisherEncounter Books
ISBN-101641770880
ISBN-139781641770880
eBay Product ID (ePID)4038496545
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Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameBreakdown of Higher Education : How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEducational Policy & Reform / General, Higher, History, Administration / Higher
Publication Year2020
TypeTextbook
AuthorJohn M. Ellis
Subject AreaEducation
FormatHardcover
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Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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LCCN2019-043565
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Dewey Edition23
Reviews"In the old Soviet Union, you could get arrested for saying there was no freedom of speech. By the same token, John Ellis's clear, well-presented, and relentless new critique of higher education demands real answers, but it will probably be unfairly vilified--which is precisely Ellis's point." --Gary Saul Morson, the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University "There are few writers as knowledgeable and clear-eyed about the precipitous and dangerous decline of American universities as John Ellis. Everyone who cares about the future of our country should read this book." --David Horowitz, author of Reforming Our Universities "America's public universities are engaged in large-scale theft, observes John Ellis trenchantly: they fraudulently divert funds appropriated for education to the improper purpose of political indoctrination. Private colleges are no less deceptive about their activities, holding themselves out as disinterested purveyors of skills and knowledge while inculcating in students a hatred of Enlightenment values and the American project. Ellis plumbs the history that corrupted the country's once peerless colleges and universities and proposes a radical but necessary plan of action to restore education to its central role in preserving our precious civilization." --Heather Mac Donald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Diversity Delusion "In this deeply researched and devastating indictment, John M. Ellis contends that decades of radicalization have turned America's once-great universities into a monoculture of authoritarian leftist orthodoxy. The left-right ratio among faculty is now nearly 12 to 1, with most professors far to the left of ordinary liberals. Conservative voices are openly disdained and often suppressed as campus ideology becomes ever more extreme, and tribalist identity politics holds priority over academic excellence. Administrators and trustees, says Ellis, are 'too cowardly or too complicit' to stand up for apolitical scholarship and teaching. Many students are afraid to express their opinions, and they spend far less time studying than in the past. One might hope that Ellis exaggerates in calling the state of higher education 'a national crisis of vast proportions,' but the evidence he musters is too potent to be dismissed." --Stuart Taylor, Jr., coauthor (with KC Johnson) of The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities
Dewey Decimal378.73
SynopsisBeyond A Crisis makes the case for drastic reform of a higher education now hopelessly corrupted by radical politics. This book takes the various aspects of the dysfunction one by one: How and why is political motivation always destructive of higher learning? What is now the essential core of the problem on the campuses, and how extensive is it? How much remains uncorrupted, and for how long is that likely to last? How was the deliberate campaign to politically cleanse the campuses of opposing voices able to succeed, and how was it able to circumvent countless laws and institutional regulations designed to keep the campuses free from political influence, when it was always widely known that political motivation would destroy them? What is the value of a typical higher education now, and how has it deteriorated over the last fifty years? Why are campuses once seen as a source of wisdom so frequently the scene of extraordinary foolishness? Beyond a Crisis surveys many kinds of serious damage that the universities are now doing to our society: to elementary and high school education, to race relations and minority advancement, to the preparation of students for the workplace, and to the political and social fabric of the nation. Ellis argues that the commonly suggested remedies (new free speech rules, or enforced right of center appointments) will all fail because they leave untouched the central core of the problem: the controlling faculty majority of political radicals who have no real interest in higher learning nor any aptitude for it. The problem of heavily corrupted higher education will persist until our society takes a hard look at what is being done with the vast sums it pays for higher education, and decides that this fraud and abuse of public money to promote a political agenda must be stopped., A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our universities are no longer devoted to the free exchange of ideas in pursuit of truth. But this hostility to free speech is only a symptom of a deeper problem, writes John Ellis. Having watched the deterioration of academia up close for the past fifty years, Ellis locates the core of the problem in a change in the composition of the faculty during this time, from mildly left-leaning to almost exclusively leftist. He explains how astonishing historical luck led to the success of a plan first devised by a small group of activists to use college campuses to promote radical politics, and why laws and regulations designed to prevent the politicizing of higher education proved insufficient. Ellis shows that political motivation is always destructive of higher learning. Even science and technology departments are not immune. The corruption of universities by radical politics also does wider damage: to primary and secondary education, to race relations, to preparation for the workplace, and to the political and social fabric of the nation. Commonly suggested remedies--new free-speech rules, or enforced right-of-center appointments--will fail because they don't touch the core problem, a controlling faculty majority of political activists with no real interest in scholarship. This book proposes more drastic and effective reform measures. The first step is for Americans to recognize that vast sums of public money intended for education are being diverted to a political agenda, and to demand that this fraud be stopped., A series of near-riots on campuses aimed at silencing guest speakers has exposed the fact that our universities are no longer devoted to the free exchange of ideas in pursuit of truth. But this hostility to free speech is only a symptom of a deeper problem, writes John Ellis. Having watched the deterioration of academia up close for the past fifty years, Ellis locates the core of the problem in a change in the composition of the faculty during this time, from mildly left-leaning to almost exclusively leftist. He explains how astonishing historical luck led to the success of a plan first devised by a small group of activists to use college campuses to promote radical politics, and why laws and regulations designed to prevent the politicizing of higher education proved insufficient. Ellis shows that political motivation is always destructive of higher learning. Even science and technology departments are not immune. The corruption of universities by radical politics also does wider damage: to primary and secondary education, to race relations, to preparation for the workplace, and to the political and social fabric of the nation.Commonly suggested remedies--new free-speech rules, or enforced right-of-center appointments--will fail because they don't touch the core problem, a controlling faculty majority of political activists with no real interest in scholarship. This book proposes more drastic and effective reform measures. The first step is for Americans to recognize that vast sums of public money intended for education are being diverted to a political agenda, and to demand that this fraud be stopped., Beyond A Crisis makes the case for drastic reform of a higher education now hopelessly corrupted by radical politics. This book takes the various aspects of the dysfunction one by one: How and why is political motivation always destructive of higher learning? What is now the essential core of the problem on the campuses, and how extensive is it? Ho, Beyond A Crisis makes the case for drastic reform of a higher education now hopelessly corrupted by radical politics. This book takes the various aspects of the dysfunction one by one: How and why is political motivation always destructive of higher learning? What is now the essential core of the problem on the campuses, and how extensive is it? How much remains uncorrupted, and for how long is that likely to last? How was the deliberate campaign to politically cleanse the campuses of opposing voices able to succeed, and how was it able to circumvent countless laws and institutional regulations designed to keep the campuses free from political influence, when it was always widely known that political motivation would destroy them? What is the value of a typical higher education now, and how has it deteriorated over the last fifty years? Why are campuses once seen as a source of wisdom so frequently the scene of extraordinary foolishness?Beyond a Crisis surveys many kinds of serious damage that the universities are now doing to our society: to elementary and high school education, to race relations and minority advancement, to the preparation of students for the workplace, and to the political and social fabric of the nation. Ellis argues that the commonly suggested remedies (new free speech rules, or enforced right of center appointments) will all fail because they leave untouched the central core of the problem: the controlling faculty majority of political radicals who have no real interest in higher learning nor any aptitude for it. The problem of heavily corrupted higher education will persist until our society takes a hard look at what is being done with the vast sums it pays for higher education, and decides that this fraud and abuse of public money to promote a political agenda must be stopped.
LC Classification NumberLA227.4.E55 2020
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