Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century

by Annette Kolodny

Book Overview

Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny's Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century is drawn from the author's experience as a distinguished teacher, a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822321866
• ISBN13: 9780822321866
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant and painfully convincing

Kolodny explores every angle of the pressures facing faculty, students and administrators, and misses nothing. She has some splendid suggestions for hewing a path of the mess, too.

Best book on higher education in a decade.

A very personal examination of higher education that also attends to problems in K-12 public education. Full of practical solutions and common-sense analyses of both the politics and economics of education in the United States. The book is thoughtful and compassionate and is written by someone who genuinely cares about the role of education in a democracy.