Table of Contents

Preface

1 The Bubble
2 All the World's a Nail
3 The Mission of Higher Education
4 A Professionalized Society
5 Self-Direction
6 A Self-Directed Curriculum
7 Self-Directed Students
8 Self-Directed Faculties
9 An Evolutionary Perspective

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Melvyn L. Fein is professor of sociology at Kennesaw State University in Georgia and is the editor of the Journal of Public and Professional Sociology.

Reviews

-[This] book is a call for higher standards and resistance to the culture of student entitlement, but it is very far from a standard-issue diatribe against the excesses of campus liberalism. . . . Redefining Higher Education is based on sharp observation. Fein briskly summarizes more familiar controversies and takes us on to new territory. He commands a dragon's hoard of material but spends it freely. He lives up to his own recommendation by giving us an exemplification of what a professional academic committed to the canons of personal responsibility looks like.- --Peter Wood, president, National Association of Scholars

"[This] book is a call for higher standards and resistance to the culture of student entitlement, but it is very far from a standard-issue diatribe against the excesses of campus liberalism. . . . Redefining Higher Education is based on sharp observation. Fein briskly summarizes more familiar controversies and takes us on to new territory. He commands a dragon's hoard of material but spends it freely. He lives up to his own recommendation by giving us an exemplification of what a professional academic committed to the canons of personal responsibility looks like." --Peter Wood, president, National Association of Scholars

"[This] book is a call for higher standards and resistance to the culture of student entitlement, but it is very far from a standard-issue diatribe against the excesses of campus liberalism. . . . Redefining Higher Education is based on sharp observation. Fein briskly summarizes more familiar controversies and takes us on to new territory. He commands a dragon's hoard of material but spends it freely. He lives up to his own recommendation by giving us an exemplification of what a professional academic committed to the canons of personal responsibility looks like." --Peter Wood, president, National Association of Scholars