Failing the future: a dean looks at higher education in the twenty-first century

Acknowledgments ix A Personal Preface: Reflections on Five Years in a Dean's Office I 1. Facing the Future: An Introduction 33 2. 60 Minutes at the University of Arizona: The Polemic against Tenure 53 3. Raising Standards While Lowering Anxieties: Rethinking the Promotion and Tenure Process 81 4. Paying the Price of Antifeminist Intellectual Harassment 98 5. Creating the Family-Friendly Campus 131 6. Teaching and Learning in a World of Cognitive Diversity 159 7. Setting an Agenda for Change 173 8. Failing the Future or, How to Commit National Suicide at the End of the Twentieth Century 214 A Closing Refrain: Reflections at a Graduation 249 Appendix 1. University of Arizona College of Humanities Promotion and Tenure Procedures 257 Appendix 2. Summary Checklist of Selected Family-Friendly Initiatives and Programs 269 Notes 273 Works Cited 281 Index 291