Academic Vantage Points: Reflections on the University in the 21st Century

The essays in this collection represent the many ways in which the academic world is in flux. The collection suggests guidance for organizations and individual faculty, looks at decision-making structures, offers advice about empowering a faculty, and addresses the responsibilities of the academic in the current educational climate. The essays, which have been previously published, are: (1) A View from the Titanic: Strategic Responsiveness; (2) Terrorism and Academic Freedom; (3) The Responsive Campus: Nine Ways to Weaken Faculty Commitment to the University; (4) Academic Destinies and the Role of the Intellectual; and (5) A Walk in the Olive Grove. [This document was produced by the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California.]