Mark C. Taylor is chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University, Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Williams College. His many awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Foundation National Professor of the Year award. He is a frequent contributor to the op-ed page of The New York Times and has also written for the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and New York City.
"Mark Taylor--a deeply original scholar and nationally celebrated
teacher--sees American higher education as a bubble about to burst.
For your students' sake, your teachers' sake, your childrens' sake,
and your country's sake, read this book while there is still
time."
-Jack Miles "Sure to provoke heated debate, this book convincingly
tells us what we don't want to hear: our colleges and universities
are no longer sustainable--either financially or programmatically.
Mark Taylor provocatively calls for big changes, both in how we use
technology to help deliver educational services and in the role of
professors. We should pay attention, or we will pay an enormous
price."
-Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of
Education "One of the jobs of a public intellectual is to warn us
when he sees a fast-approaching freight train bearing down on us.
In Crisis on Campus, Mark Taylor does that and much more. He offers
specific and often radical suggestions about how to make higher
education more fulfilling for students and more relevant to the
networked world of the 21st century."
-Bill Bradley "This is a book that needed to be written and one
that must be read. Mark Taylor not only reveals an unclothed
emperor; he also provides guidance to those of us who would
properly serve as weavers. The only thing better than reading this
book would be to have written it."
-E. Gordon Gee, President of the Ohio State University "Feisty . .
. Measured in tone but devastating."
-Christopher Shea, The New York Times Book Review "Provocative . .
. Cogent . . . Taylor has written a manifesto informed by his
experience and dedication to innovative higher education, and he
has pointed us to fundamental problems that must be addressed. We
should be grateful."
-Michael S. Roth, The Los Angeles Times "At heart, Taylor has an
old-fashioned sense of what it takes for students to become good
writers and good thinkers: for starters, a lot of practice at
writing and thinking . . . Technology can't make a better
curriculum: that will have to come from reformers who, like Taylor,
have not forgotten the value of good thinking, good writing and a
well-argued essay."
-Naomi Schaefer Riley, The Wall Street Journal "Taylor demonstrates
an exuberant willingness to take on academic conventions . . . His
innovative proposals will generate thoughtful, occasionally angry
responses from academic leaders and interested laypeople alike.
Serious, challenging, and well-written."
-Library Journal "Taylor's tone is neither whimsical nor utopian .
. . He writes with urgency and conviction . . . Highly provocative
and certain to stimulate."
-Kirkus
"His radical proposals notwithstanding, Taylor's dedication to
scholarship and his concern for students is profound."
-Publishers Weekly
"Taylor argues passionately for more open ideas on what is valuable
to learn, in what format and through what methods, for a generation
raised on the Internet and iPods."
-Booklist
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