Description
University - What Was It, What Situation and How Should It Be? Book Description: This work on universities, written by Andrew Delbanco, known for his competent works in the fields of cultural and literary criticism, has been the subject of many public discussions since the day it was published. Focusing on the common findings that universities have become commercialized, education has moved away from its former competence, and university life and youth culture have been restructured as a consumption environment, the University discusses the issue by placing it within the historical landscape as well as its current dimensions. This work, which adds historical and cultural depth to the contemporary debate on higher education and universities, sheds light on the current problems as well as the advanced aspects of this model in a context where universities are Americanized all over the world. It accurately addresses the relationships between the conditions of the emergence of universities and university colleges and their subsequent development. Delbanco lists the topics that should be taken into consideration in possible answers to the trajectory of the contemporary university, which is in a deep mission crisis. Instead of quick and short-cut answers, it mentally prepares those concerned for a qualified university discussion in order to thoroughly examine the current questions/problems of universities. Delbanco's observations and evaluations of the cultural life of universities, especially from American universities to the world, are among the most profound and nuanced contemporary criticisms. (From the Promotional Bulletin)