Putting the academy in its place

Places

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 50-55

  Scobey, David ^a  

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1. Important critiques of the disengagement of higher education from public life include; "Wing-spread Declaration On Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University" (http://www. compact. org/news/Wingspread. html)
2. Thomas Ehrlich (ed. ), Civic Responsibility and Higher Education (Phoenix: Oryx Press, 2000)
3. and Gregory Jay, "The Community in the Classroom," Academe 86:4(July-August, 2000), 33-7.
4. For an overview of Students On Site, see the Arts of Citizenship website (http://www. artsofcitizenship. umich. edu).
5. Initiatives like the University of Pennsylvania's Center For Community Partnerships and the University of Miami's Initiative On Urban and Social Ecology reflect a growing commitment "to foster an interdisciplinary program of research, education and outreach that supports the people, places and processes essential for creating and sustaining family-centered communities," See Samina Quraeshi, "The Spirit of Place and Building Community," in Todd W. Bressi (ed. ), The Living Traditions of Miami's West, Coconut Grove (Coral Gables: University of Miami, 2002).
6. Also, see the Center for Community Partnerships website (http://www. upenn. edu/ecp/Bibliography/ Ed-HUD-paper. html); and Ira Harkavy, "School-Community-University Partnerships: Effectively Integrating Community Building and Education Reform" (http://www. upenn. edu/ccp/Bibliography/Ed-HUD-paper. html).
7. Visions of Change In Higher Education (W. W. Kellogg Foundation, n. d. ).
8. For the institutional history of American research universities in the second half of the twentieth century, see Laurence Veysey, The Emergence of the American University (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965)
9. Hugh Davis Graham, The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challenges In the Postwar Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
10. Clark Kerr, The Great Transformation In Higher Education, 1960-1980 (Albany, N. Y. : State University of New York Press, 1991)
11. and Daedalus 126 (Fall, 1997), a special issue on "The American Academic Profession. "
12. On the relationship between academic professionalism and the intellectual, see Russell Jacoby, The End of Utopia: Polities and Culture in an Age of Apathy (New York; Basic Books, 1999)
13. Lawrence Levine, The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture and History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996)
14. MARHO, the Radical Historians' Collective, Visions of History (Manchester, U. K. ; Manchester University Press, 1983)
15. and Roger Kimball, Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (New York: Harper & Row, 1990).
16. On professionalism, place and the geography of academic life, see Harry Boyte and Naney Kari, " Renewing the Democratic Spirit in Higher Education," in Ehrlich, and A. Bartlett Giamatti, A Free and Ordered Space: The Real World of the University (New-York: W. W. Norton, 1988).
17. See J. B. Jackson, Discovering the Vernacular Ehrlich Landscape (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984) and The Necessity For Ruins and Other Topics (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980)
18. and William H. Whyte, The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Washington, D. C. : Conservation Foundation, 1980).
19. For a discussion of the efforts of landscape studies to integrate academic and public audiences, see Paul Groth, "Frameworks for Cultural Landscape Study," in Groth and Todd W. Bressi (eds. ), Understanding Ordinary Landscapes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).
20. See also the West Philadelphia Landscape Project website (http://www. upenn. edu/wplp) and Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public History (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1995).
21. For a critique of the social hierarehies embedded in the studio model of integrating pedagogy and practice, see Linda N. Groat, "Rescuing Architecture From the Cul-de-sac, " Journal of Architectural Education 45: 3 (May, 1992), 138-46.
22. My thinking here was especially informed by Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (New York: Pantheon, 1965)
23. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1984)
24. Robert C. Allen, Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991)
25. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative As a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981)
26. and Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space In Critical Social Theory (New York: Verso, 1989).
27. See Elizabeth Goodenough (ed. ), "Secret Spaces of Childhood," Michigan Quarterly Review 39:2,3 (Spring, Summer 2000)
28. Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles (New York; Vintage Books, 1992), 221-63
29. and Michael Dear and Jurgen von Mahs, "Housing For the Homeless, By the Homeless and Of the Homeless," in Nan Ellin (ed. ), Architecture of Fear (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997), 187-200. The quotation describing Broadway Park is from "To the President and Common Council of the City of Ann Arbor" (30 June 1902); see (http://www. si. umich. edu/CHICO/ sos/new/archives/henningaequire. html)
30. On the university as a social laboratory, see Nancy Cantor, "Reinvention: Why Now? Why Us?" keynote address to The Boyer Commission Report: A Second Anniversary Retrospective (28 April 2000) (hrtp://www. umich,edu/∼provost/ speeches/boyer . html).