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End the University as We Know It 1. Problems confronting American universities A. impractical graduate 【B1】______ 【B1】______ B.
End the University as We Know It 1. Problems confronting American universities A. impractical graduate 【B1】______ 【B1】______ B.
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End the University as We Know It
1. Problems confronting American universities
A. impractical graduate 【B1】______ 【B1】______
B. isolated departments/ overspecialized sciences
C. encouraged phenomenon of 【B2】______ 【B2】______
II. Root for the problems — the 【B3】______ of universities 【B3】______
A. origin
— The Conflict of the Faculties (1798) by Kant
B. model
— mass production/ a 【B4】______ 【B4】______
C. concept
— learn all sciences by mass production, so each branch
has its trustee
III. Steps to improve American higher education are
A. restructuring curriculum
1. method
— to replace separate 【B5】______ with complex adaptive web- 【B5】______
like curriculum
2. purpose
— to make teaching and scholarship cross-disciplinary
— to engage more sciences in comparative analysis of common problems
B. 【B6】______ programs 【B6】______
1. reason
— programs evolve with society, some may be out of date.
2. purpose
— to avoid sunset clauses
— to address practical problems
— to develop new theoretical insights and practical solutions
C. increasing 【B7】______ among institutions 【B7】______
1. purpose
— to reduce workload of institutions
— to share students and faculty
2. means
— teleconference, Internet, etc.
D. transforming the traditional 【B8】______ 【B8】______
1. reason
— less market for traditional ones
2. advice
— using novel formats like films or video games
E. expanding professional options for graduate students purpose:
— to prepare students for future work
— to improve students’ 【B9】______ to the changing world 【B9】______
F. imposing mandatory retirement and abolishing tenure purpose:
— to encourage faculties to continue to evolve
— to 【B10】______ young people 【B10】______
【B9】
End the University as We Know It
[1] Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand, all at a rapidly rising cost. Widespread hiring freezes and layoffs have brought these problems into sharp relief now. Why is mat? Is there any way to turn things around? If the answer is yes, then how? In today’s lecture, I’d like to discuss with you all the above questions.
[3] Our graduate system has been in crisis for decades, and the seeds of this crisis go as far back as the formation of modern universities. Kant, in his 1798 work The Conflict of the Faculties, wrote that [4] universities should "handle the entire content of learning by mass production, so to speak, by a division of labor, so that for every branch of the sciences there would be a public teacher or professor appointed as its trustee".
Unfortunately this mass-production university model has led to separation where there ought to be collaboration and ever-increasing specialization. In my own religion department, for example, we have 10 faculty members, working in eight subfields, with little overlap. And as departments fragment, research and publication become more and more about less and less. Each academic becomes the trustee not of a branch of the sciences, but of limited knowledge that all too often is irrelevant for genuinely important problems.
[2] The emphasis on narrow scholarship also encourages an educational system that has become a process of cloning. Faculty members cultivate those students whose futures they envision as identical to their own pasts, even though their tenures will stand in the way of these students having futures as full professors.
If American higher education is to thrive in the 21st century, colleges and universities, like Wall Street and Detroit, must be rigorously regulated and completely restructured. The long process, to make higher learning more agi|e, adaptive and imaginative, can begin with six major steps:
First, restructure the curriculum, beginning with graduate programs and proceeding as quickly as possible to undergraduate programs. [5] The division-of-labor model of separate departments is obsolete and must be replaced with a curriculum structured like a web or complex adaptive network. Responsible teaching and scholarship must become cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural.
Just a few weeks ago, 1 attended a meeting of political scientists who had gathered to discuss why international relations theory had never considered the role of religion in society. Given the state of the world today, this is a significant oversight. There can be no adequate understanding of the most important issues we face when disciplines are cloistered from one another and operate on their own premises.
It would be far more effective to bring together people working on questions of religion, politics, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, literature, art, religion and philosophy to engage in comparative analysis of common problems. As the curriculum is restructured, fields of inquiry and methods of investigation will be transformed.
[6] Second, abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs. These constantly evolving programs would have sunset clauses, and every seven years each one should be evaluated and either abolished, continued or significantly changed. It is possible to imagine a broad range of topics around which such zones of inquiry could be organized: Mind, Body, Law, Information, Networks, Language, Space, Time, Media, Money, Life and Water.
Consider, for example, a Water program. In the coming decades, water will become a more pressing problem than oil, and the quantity, quality and distribution of water will pose significant scientific, technological and ecological difficulties as well as serious political and economic challenges. These vexing practical problems cannot be adequately addressed without also considering important philosophical, religious and ethical issues. After all, beliefs shape practices as much as practices shape beliefs.
A Water program would bring together people in the humanities, arts, social and natural sciences with representatives from professional schools like medicine, law, business, engineering, social work, theology and architecture. Through the intersection of multiple perspectives and approaches, new theoretical insights will develop and unexpected practical solutions will emerge.
[7] Third, increase collaboration among institutions. All institutions do not need to do all things and technology makes it possible for schools to form partnerships to share students and facultes. Institutions will be able to expand while contracting. Let one college have a strong department in French, for example, and the other a strong department in German; through teleconferencing and the Internet, both subjects can be taught at both places with half the staff. With these tools, I have already team-taught semester-long seminars in real time at the Universities of Helsinki and Melbourne.
[8] Fourth, transform the traditional dissertation. In the arts and humanities, where looming cutbacks will be most devastating, there is no longer a market for books modeled on the medieval dissertation, with more footnotes than text. As financial pressures on university presses continue to mount, publication of dissertations, and with it scholarly certification, is almost impossible. (The average university press print run of a dissertation that has been converted into a book is less than 500, and sales are usually considerably lower.) For many years, I have taught undergraduate courses in which students do not write traditional papers but develop analytic treatments in formats from hypertext and Web sites to films and video games. Graduate students should likewise be encouraged to produce "theses" in alternative formats.
Fifth, expand the range of professional options for graduate students. Most graduate students will never hold the kind of job for which they are being trained. It is, therefore, necessary to help them prepare for work in fields other than higher education. The exposure to new approaches and different cultures and the consideration of real-life issues will prepare students for jobs at businesses and nonprofit organizations. [9] Moreover, the knowledge and skills they will cultivate in the new universities will enable them to adapt to a constantly changing world.
Sixth, impose mandatory retirement and abolish tenure. Initially intended to protect academic freedom, tenure has resulted in institutions with little turnover and professors impervious to change. After all, once tenure has been granted, there is no leverage to encourage a professor to continue to develop professionally or to require him or her to assume responsibilities like administration and student advising. Tenure should be replaced with seven-year contracts, which, like the programs in which faculty teach, can be terminated or renewed. [10] This policy would enable colleges and universities to reward researchers, scholars and teachers who continue to evolve and remain productive while also making room for young people with new ideas and skills.
My hope is that colleges and universities will be shaken out of their complacency and will open academia to a future we cannot conceive. OK, this is the end of today’s lecture. If you have any questions or ideas about today’s topic, send me an email and I’ll discuss with you later. Alright, see you next week.
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adaptation
解析
本题涉及第五步——拓宽学生的职业选择范围。讲座中提到,学生将来从事的工作不一定与所学专业有关,因而学校应该为学生提供机会,让他们能够接触不同文化,考虑现实生活问题,这样不仅能为将来找工作作准备,更能提高学生对于瞬息万变的社会的适应能力。因此本空应填adaptation。
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