American Higher Ed Learning Cohort Session 1: An Overview of Higher Education in America

Session 6: Our focus widens outward today, to encompass the increasing globalization of higher education, both graduate and undergraduate. U.S. higher education began by emulating English and European models. Today it also serves as a model for those systems, and for Asia. We will explore these dynamics together.

Readings:
- Writing Support for International Graduate Students: Enhancing Transition and Success (Chapter 2, Shyam Sharma)
Higher Education in Germany: Recent Developments in an International Perspective (Pages ix - xii, 9-21, and 195-209)

American Higher Ed: History, Culture, and Challenges Cohort Description:
Designed for graduate students pursuing tenure track careers, as well as those considering a range of careers in and related to higher education, our session topics range from the rise of the PhD as the central academic credential, to graduate education’s role in the research university, to the role of faculty in university governance. Along the way you’ll connect a range of guests, including university press editors, foundation and public humanities leaders, and faculty and administrators from a range of institutions. 

This workshop series will take a long view of American higher education, framing its problems and prospects in both current and historical terms. How did we get here? Where are we headed, and why? Where should we be headed? The overarching goal is both broad and simple: that you extend and deepen your understanding of the history and culture of the academic workplace and profession you now occupy, and the fields you hope to enter.

Directions: Room 271 is located in the Louis A. Simpson International Building, contiguous to the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, located on the southeastern corner of Washington Road and William Street. After entering the building at the Washington Road entrance take the elevator on your right to floor 2. Exit the elevator and go to your right. Continue straight down the hall. Just prior to the first glass door make a right through another glass door and proceed down the corridor. At the end of the corridor make a left, and walk straight ahead to room 271.

Session 5: The straitened academic job market continues to affect the lives of both scholars and institutions.  Today we will discuss the mission of the research university: what can—and should—graduate education look like when there aren’t enough professorships for the students who attend?
Readings:

Readings (See Attached):
The NASEM Report, "Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century"
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25038/graduate-stem-education-for-the-21st-century Please read the "summary" (following the front matter) and browse through the rest.
John Guillory, Professing Criticism, chapter 9 ("On the Permanent Crisis in Graduate Education," 247-278)

James Van Wyck, “Academia Is an Ecosystem, Not a Container” (Leaving the Grove, 243-262)
American Higher Ed: History, Culture, and Challenges Cohort Description:
Designed for graduate students pursuing tenure track careers, as well as those considering a range of careers in and related to higher education, our session topics range from the rise of the PhD as the central academic credential, to graduate education’s role in the research university, to the role of faculty in university governance. Along the way you’ll connect a range of guests, including university press editors, foundation and public humanities leaders, and faculty and administrators from a range of institutions. 



This workshop series will take a long view of American higher education, framing its problems and prospects in both current and historical terms. How did we get here? Where are we headed, and why? Where should we be headed? The overarching goal is both broad and simple: that you extend and deepen your understanding of the history and culture of the academic workplace and profession you now occupy, and the fields you hope to enter.

Directions: Room 271 is located in the Louis A. Simpson International Building, contiguous to the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, located on the southeastern corner of Washington Road and William Street. After entering the building at the Washington Road entrance take the elevator on your right to floor 2. Exit the elevator and go to your right. Continue straight down the hall. Just prior to the first glass door make a right through another glass door and proceed down the corridor. At the end of the corridor make a left, and walk straight ahead to room 271.

Session 4: American higher education studies politics, but since the 1960s, it has also become a political subject—and a very hot one in today’s times. With a particular focus on the subject of academic freedom, we will explore the politicization of American higher education.

Readings: Reading:
AAUP statements on academic freedom from 1915 and 1940
Ellen Schrecker, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities 3-23 (attached below)
Michael Berube and Jennifer Ruth: article found here https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/does-it-matter-whether-we-know-what-academic-freedom-is/ (optional reading include a chapter by Berube and Ruth attached below)
Keith Whittington, "DeSantis's Terrifying Plot Against Higher Ed" https://www.chronicle.com/article/desantiss-terrifying-plot-against-higher-ed?sra=true&cid=gen_sign_in
Geoff Shullenberger, "War and the Collapse of Campus Speech Consensus" https://www.chronicle.com/article/war-and-the-collapse-of-the-campus-speech-consensus
Lisa Levenstein and Jennifer Mittelstadt, "The Real Fight for Academic Freedom" https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-real-fight-for-academic-freedom
American Higher Ed: History, Culture, and Challenges Cohort
Description:
Designed for graduate students pursuing tenure track careers, as well as those considering a range of careers in and related to higher education, our session topics range from the rise of the PhD as the central academic credential, to graduate education’s role in the research university, to the role of faculty in university governance. Along the way you’ll connect a range of guests, including university press editors, foundation and public humanities leaders, and faculty and administrators from a range of institutions. 



This workshop series will take a long view of American higher education, framing its problems and prospects in both current and historical terms. How did we get here? Where are we headed, and why? Where should we be headed? The overarching goal is both broad and simple: that you extend and deepen your understanding of the history and culture of the academic workplace and profession you now occupy, and the fields you hope to enter.

Directions: Room 271 is located in the Louis A. Simpson International Building, contiguous to the Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building, located on the southeastern corner of Washington Road and William Street. After entering the building at the Washington Road entrance take the elevator on your right to floor 2. Exit the elevator and go to your right. Continue straight down the hall. Just prior to the first glass door make a right through another glass door and proceed down the corridor. At the end of the corridor make a left, and walk straight ahead to room 271.

A career-diverse academy must also be a public-facing academy. But what should that look like? In this session we will explore some of the many possibilities that higher education may contemplate when it looks outward for engagement with the society that it supports—and which supports it in turn.

Readings:
Naomi Oreskes, AAAS Talk, "The Scientist as Sentinel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBkyVZFHto (It's about 10 mins)
Frontier of Young Minds journal for middle school students by middle school students. The articles are submitted by researchers and reviewed by K-12 students. This particular article was submitted by a graduate student and her faculty advisor in Neuroscience at Princeton (Patricia Hoyos and Sabine Kastner, respectively). Please browse the site, starting with that piece: https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2022.734161
Sean Campbell Staton of Princeton’s Ecology & Evolutionary Biology specializes in podcasts and tv shows. Please browse his site: https://www.campbellstaton.com/scicomm
Carin Berkowitz and Matthew Gibson 's "Reframing the Public Humanities" (https://www.amacad.org/publication/reframing-public-humanities-tensions-challenges-potentials-more-expansive-endeavor). * Carin will be joining us.
Browse the HumestricsHSS project (at https://humetricshss.org/).

American Higher Ed: History, Culture, and Challenges Cohort Description:
Designed for graduate students pursuing tenure track careers, as well as those considering a range of careers in and related to higher education, our session topics range from the rise of the PhD as the central academic credential, to graduate education’s role in the research university, to the role of faculty in university governance. Along the way you’ll connect a range of guests, including university press editors, foundation and public humanities leaders, and faculty and administrators from a range of institutions. 

This workshop series will take a long view of American higher education, framing its problems and prospects in both current and historical terms. How did we get here? Where are we headed, and why? Where should we be headed? The overarching goal is both broad and simple: that you extend and deepen your understanding of the history and culture of the academic workplace and profession you now occupy, and the fields you hope to enter.

Session 2: 
In this continued exploration of “How did we get here?” we will focus on the development and growth of graduate education in the United States.  How did the research university create and fill its space in U.S. society?

Session 2 Readings:
 Labaree, A Perfect Mess, Chapter 3 (47-69)
Jason Brennan & Philip  Magness, Cracks in the Ivory Tower, ch 8 (186-213)
American Higher Ed: History, Culture, and Challenges Cohort Description:

Designed for graduate students pursuing tenure track careers, as well as those considering a range of careers in and related to higher education, our session topics range from the rise of the PhD as the central academic credential, to graduate education’s role in the research university, to the role of faculty in university governance. Along the way you’ll connect a range of guests, including university press editors, foundation and public humanities leaders, and faculty and administrators from a range of institutions. 



This workshop series will take a long view of American higher education, framing its problems and prospects in both current and historical terms. How did we get here? Where are we headed, and why? Where should we be headed? The overarching goal is both broad and simple: that you extend and deepen your understanding of the history and culture of the academic workplace and profession you now occupy, and the fields you hope to enter.