Learning Resources

Abstract: Book Review: Redesign Collegiate Leadership: TEams and Teamwork in Higher Euducation, by Estela Mara Bensimon and Anna Neumann. Johns Hopskins University Press, 1993. 182 pages. ISBN 0-8018-4561-0 How Academic Leadership Works: Understanding Success and Failure in College Presidency, by Robert Birnbaum. Jossey-Bass, 1992. ISBN 1-55542-466-X.

Abstract: Book review: Recognizing faculty Work: Reward Systems for the Year 2000, edited by robert Diamond and Bronwym Adam. New Directions for Higher Education, No. 81. Jossey-Bass, 1993. 125 pages. ISBN 1-55542-691-3

Abstract: American campus design over the last 40 years has experienced an evolution in which each decade is dominated by themes that reflect the social change of the time. From the postwar period through the late 1950s, unprecedented pressures brought on by massive federal spending were met with unprecedented solutions offered by modernism. During the 1960s, new space needs required tremendous change in scale, resulting in overwhelming "Brutalist" concrete architecture. During this time, entirely new institutions provided numerous new prototypes. During the 1970s, campus unrest, the environmental movement, and demand for community participation caused a crisis in facilities planning. Responses typically involved partnerships to develop land with outside parties as a source of revenue while insuring the quality of the larger immediate environment. With declining student populations in the 1980s, emphasis was not on growth but on improving the campus environment to stay competitive. This need was answered by postmodernism and its resumption of "stagecraft" in campus design. The 1990s can been seen as a continuation of this, yet financial austerity and swiftly changing technology suggested that greater flexibility be built into new facilities. Thoughout these changes, the campus remains a place where "intellectual inquiry, socialization, and day-to-day living" exist in a "finite, integrated setting," which modifies itself to the needs of each successive generation.

Abstract: Book Review: Denatured Visions: Landscapes and Culture in the Twentieth Century, edited by Stuart Wrede and William Howard Adams. The Museum of Modern Art, 1991. 137 pages.

Abstract: Viewpoint Subtitles: Who are higher education's new critics?; Even Rorty was riled; Goodbye to reason?; Universities as a political battleground. Pull quotes: "The professoriate is now deeply divided about the worth of freedom." "The Marxist animus has found a new home." "There is inchoate theorizing and no end of critical sneers." "We have a crisis of belief, of standards, of shared assumptions." "The actors don't want a better curriculum, they want a political one."

Abstract: Book review: What matters in College? Four Crtical Years Revisited, by Alexander Astin. Jossey-Bass, 1993. 482 pages. ISBN 1-55542-492-9.