BOOK REVIEW: Cary Nelson. WILL TEACH FOR FOOD: ACADEMIC LABOR IN CRISIS Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. and Annette Kolodny. FAILING THE FUTURE: A DEAN LOOKS AT HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE TWENTY- FIRST CENTURY Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. and Marilyn Boxer. WHEN WOMEN ASK THE QUESTIONS: CREATING WOMEN'S STUDIES IN AMERICA Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

NWSA Journal ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-206
Author(s):  
Marlene Longenecker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Academic Labor ◽  
The Future ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Twenty First Century

Editor's Review of THE PLEASURES OF ACADEME: A CELEBRATION AND DEFENSE OF HIGHER EDUCATION and FAILING THE FUTURE: A DEAN LOOKS AT HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

2001 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-316
Author(s):  
Matthew Hartley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Student Body ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Diverse Student Body ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century

U.S. higher education has arrived at the new millennium in an environment that might charitably be called "dynamic." A demographic incline is bringing a larger and more diverse student body to the doors of U.S. colleges and universities. New technologies are multiplying venues for education, but our institutions of higher learning are simultaneously facing enormous pressures from penurious legislatures, growing competition from for-profit universities, and regents and state boards of higher education flocking to the banner of greater accountability. In the midst of these challenges, James Axtell's The Pleasures of Academe and Annette Kolodny's Failing the Future offer compelling and ultimately competing visions of the state of U.S. higher education on the doorstep of the twenty-first century.

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