University in Crisis : From the Middle Ages to the University of Excellence / Michael Schapira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schapira, Michael, author.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Off the fence (Rowman & Littlefield International)

Off the fence: morality, politics, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

vii, 159 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD, 2023.

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2024]

Summary:

Brings necessary clarity to contentious debates about the state and future of the university by reconstructing the institution's history around the theme of crisis. Since its origins in medieval Bologna, the university has been a site where humanity has worked out many of the thorniest questions of individual and collective purpose, often in what were described as crisis conditions. This book is not just a history of the university or a survey of contemporary debates, though. It is also an impassioned defence of the university as a privileged institution through which threats to collective self-governance are most acutely felt and from which strategies for its rehabilitation can be most fruitfully developed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1538174995

9781538174999

OCLC:

1390876886

Publisher Number:

99995175263