Please distribute
Call for papers:
Book collection: The University in Question: Future Histories for American
Higher Education
This collection aims to imagine a University worth saving. Faculty in
today's imploding university have faced a difficult dilemma: they must
resist changes that are progressively dismantling the University as we now
know it, but they cannot defend the same institution that many have
struggled against in the name of feminism, multiculturalism, marxism, etc.
There seems to be very little room to maneuver between bad change and an
already insufficient status quo. "The University in Question" offers a
collection of polemics and analyses from faculty in various disciplines,
kinds of institutions, and professional situations that attempts to move
beyond this dilemma. The intent is less to offer new research on higher
education and its crises, than to advance a set of strong arguments and
proposals about what the University will, and should, look like from a
vantage point in the decades ahead. Such future retrospective should offer
leverage to reframe current debates and to supply readers with arguments
critical to mobilizing for change in higher education. Topics to consider
include:
* alternative "professionalisms"
* academic labor
* curricular and disciplinary change
* institutional reform (governance, administration, etc.)
* access
* pedagogy
* new models of research and knowledge
* resituating the university (i.e. community-based visions, changing
constituencies and stakeholders, social movements)
The abstraction of the "University" often simplifies debates about higher
education in ways that exclude or marginalize particular kinds of
institutions, academic workers, students, and fields. We are particularly
keen to represent the complexities and contradictions within higher
education.
Send abstracts and proposals by March 30 to:
Larry Hanley
Dept. of English
City College of New York
138th and Convent
New York, NY 10031
hanley@bway.net
fax: (212) 650-541
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