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The goal of this book is to convince liberal arts educators that preparing students for life should be a higher priority than preparing them to enjoy learning for its own sake.
List of contents
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Part One: Bait and Switch
Chapter 1: Knowledge Over Know-How
Chapter 2: Flawed Evidence
Chapter 3: The Bait Machine
Part Two: Elitism Revealed
Chapter 4: Ben Franklin is a Petite Bourgeoisie
Chapter 5: Dale Carnegie is Not College Material
Chapter 6: The Student Prince Warning
Chapter 7: The Hereditary Kingdom
Chapter 8: What's in a Name
Chapter 9: The Liberal Arts Religion
Chapter 10: "Dumbing Down" is Dumb
Part Three: Undergraduate Victims
Chapter 11: Commoners Vote with their Feet
Chapter 12: The Anxiety Machine
Chapter 13: Career Services Challenges
Chapter 14: Experience Credit Ambivalence
Part Four: Societal Damage.
Chapter 15: K-12 Toxicity
Chapter 16: Unskilled Citizens
Chapter 17: Too Many Thinkers and Not Enough Doers
Chapter 18: Equity Denied
Part Five: Foundational Changes for Equity and Inclusion
Chapter 19: Change PhD Education
Chapter 20: Reform Lower Division Coursework
Chapter 21: Treat Undergraduates as the Citizens
About the author
Bill Coplin is founder and professor of the highly successful undergraduate Policy Studies Major at Syracuse University which is meets the goals of an undergraduate professional program while maintaining the integrity of a degree in the in liberal arts. He is the J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence at the Maxwell School and College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. An author of 110 books and articles, many of which are in education, has taught and advised tens of thousands of undergraduates over his 50+ years of teaching.
