The Attack on Higher Education by Ronald G. Musto - 9781108471923

The Attack on Higher EducationThe Dissolution of the American University\nAuthor(s): Ronald G. Musto\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108471923, 978-1108471923\nSynopsis\nAmericanhigher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia ascorrupt,irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts, attacks on liberal arts and humanitiesdisciplines, faculty layoffs and retrenchments, technology displacements,corporatization, and campus closings have accelerated over the past decade. In this timely volume, Ronald Musto draws on historicalprecedent -Henry VIII'sdissolutionof British monasteries in the 1530s - forhis study of the current threats to American higher education. He shows how a triad of forces - authority, separateness, andinnovation -enabledmonasteries to succeed, and then suddenly and unexpectedly to fail. Musto.