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Author: Joseph Lepgold Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231505523 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 361
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The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Many international relations scholars no longer try to reach beyond the ivory tower and many policymakers disdain international relations scholarship as arcane and irrelevant. Joseph Lepgold and Miroslav Nincic demonstrate how good international relations theory can inform policy choices. Globalization, ethnic conflict, and ecological threats have created a new set of issues that challenge policymakers, and cutting-edge scholarship can contribute a great deal to the diagnosis and handling of potentially explosive situations.
Author: Joseph Lepgold Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231505523 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 361
Book Description
The gap between academics and practitioners in international relations has widened in recent years, according to the authors of this book. Many international relations scholars no longer try to reach beyond the ivory tower and many policymakers disdain international relations scholarship as arcane and irrelevant. Joseph Lepgold and Miroslav Nincic demonstrate how good international relations theory can inform policy choices. Globalization, ethnic conflict, and ecological threats have created a new set of issues that challenge policymakers, and cutting-edge scholarship can contribute a great deal to the diagnosis and handling of potentially explosive situations.
Author: Derek Curtis BOK Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674028465 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 329
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Derek Bok examines the complex ethical and social issues facing modern universities today, and suggests approaches that will allow the academic institution both to serve society and to continue its primary mission of teaching and research.
Author: Nancy Baron Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 1597269654 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 271
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Most scientists and researchers aren’t prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers—or to deal with backlash. Many researchers have the horror stories to prove it. What’s clear, according to Nancy Baron, is that scientists, journalists and public policymakers come from different cultures. They follow different sets of rules, pursue different goals, and speak their own language. To effectively reach journalists and public officials, scientists need to learn new skills and rules of engagement. No matter what your specialty, the keys to success are clear thinking, knowing what you want to say, understanding your audience, and using everyday language to get your main points across. In this practical and entertaining guide to communicating science, Baron explains how to engage your audience and explain why a particular finding matters. She explores how to ace your interview, promote a paper, enter the political fray, and use new media to connect with your audience. The book includes advice from journalists, decision makers, new media experts, bloggers and some of the thousands of scientists who have participated in her communication workshops. Many of the researchers she has worked with have gone on to become well-known spokespeople for science-related issues. Baron and her protégées describe the risks and rewards of “speaking up,” how to deal with criticism, and the link between communications and leadership. The final chapter, ‘Leading the Way’ offers guidance to scientists who want to become agents of change and make your science matter. Whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned veteran looking to hone your skills, Escape From the Ivory Tower can help make your science understood, appreciated and perhaps acted upon.
Author: Davarian L Baldwin Publisher: Bold Type Books ISBN: 1568588917 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.
Author: Will Bunch Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063077019 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 359
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great political and cultural fault line of American life Winner of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Literary Award | Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction | "This book is simply terrific." —Heather Cox Richardson | "Ambitious and engrossing." —New York Times Book Review | "A must-read." —Nancy MacLean, author of Democracy in Chains Today there are two Americas, separate and unequal, one educated and one not. And these two tribes—the resentful “non-college” crowd and their diploma-bearing yet increasingly disillusioned adversaries—seem on the brink of a civil war. The strongest determinant of whether a voter was likely to support Donald Trump in 2016 was whether or not they attended college, and the degree of loathing they reported feeling toward the so-called “knowledge economy" of clustered, educated elites. Somewhere in the winding last half-century of the United States, the quest for a college diploma devolved from being proof of America’s commitment to learning, science, and social mobility into a kind of Hunger Games contest to the death. That quest has infuriated both the millions who got shut out and millions who got into deep debt to stay afloat. In After the Ivory Tower Falls, award-winning journalist Will Bunch embarks on a deeply reported journey to the heart of the American Dream. That journey begins in Gambier, Ohio, home to affluent, liberal Kenyon College, a tiny speck of Democratic blue amidst the vast red swath of white, post-industrial, rural midwestern America. To understand “the college question,” there is no better entry point than Gambier, where a world-class institution caters to elite students amidst a sea of economic despair. From there, Bunch traces the history of college in the U.S., from the landmark GI Bill through the culture wars of the 60’s and 70’s, which found their start on college campuses. We see how resentment of college-educated elites morphed into a rejection of knowledge itself—and how the explosion in student loan debt fueled major social movements like Occupy Wall Street. Bunch then takes a question we need to ask all over again—what, and who, is college even for?—and pushes it into the 21st century by proposing a new model that works for all Americans. The sum total is a stunning work of journalism, one that lays bare the root of our political, cultural, and economic division—and charts a path forward for America.
Author: Charlie Eaton Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022672042X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 216
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Universities and the social circuitry of finance -- Our new financial oligarchy -- Bankers to the rescue : the political turn to student debt -- The top : how universities became hedge funds -- The bottom : a Wall Street takeover of for-profit colleges -- The middle : a hidden squeeze on public universities -- Reimagining (higher education) finance from below -- Methodological appendix : a comparative, qualitative, and quantitative study of elites.
Author: Doug Munro Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 9781443805346 Category : Historians Languages : en Pages : 0
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"The five historians in this book were all, to varying degrees, participant historians, whose life within the ivory tower was complemented by an engagement with public affairs. Conversely, their activism and civil engagement fed back into the history they wrote. J.C. Beaglehole was the renowned editor of "Captain Cook's Journals" and a public intellectual and critical conscience in his native New Zealand. His student J.W. Davidson founded a distinctive school of Pacific Islands history and went on to be a constitutional adviser to Pacific territories on the threshold of independence. He bequeathed a tradition of the engaged scholar which he, in turn, inherited from Beaglehole. For Richard Gilson the cause was less political than a sometimes obsessive devotion to establishing the place of Samoans in their historical encounter with Europeans. Harry Maude started as a colonial official and made a long-awaited mid-career change to studying the people he had once administered. Brij V. Lal has deliberately lived at the interface of scholarship and action, particularly as one of the makers of Fiji's 1997 Constitution. "The Ivory Tower and Beyond" takes a biographical approach and more. It is also an excursion into intellectual and institutional history. It interweaves the subjects' interests and activities within and beyond the ivory tower and shows that these seemingly discrete activities are not disassociated from each other. In each case the public figure and the man of letters is inseparable. "The Ivory Tower and Beyond" also demonstrates that a proper appreciation of a historian's writings requires an understanding of the backgrounds and the structures within which the texts were created - upbringing, academic training, institutional pressures and the vagaries of patronage and preferment. Private lives and professional formations intertwine and are refracted by an institutional prism." --Publisher.
Author: Brian James Baer Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9789027231888 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 282
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This volume is divided into three sections. The first explores the pedagogical interventions that are focused on the performance of translation. The second part discusses approaches to translator training. The third part examines some of the pedagogical opportunities and challenges.
Author: Lana A. Whited Publisher: University of Missouri Press ISBN: 9780826215499 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 436
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Now available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is the first book-length analysis of J. K. Rowling's work from a broad range of perspectives within literature, folklore, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. A significant portion of the book explores the Harry Potter series' literary ancestors, including magic and fantasy works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Monica Furlong, Jill Murphy, and others, as well as previous works about the British boarding school experience. Other chapters explore the moral and ethical dimensions of Harry's world, including objections to the series raised within some religious circles. In her new epilogue, Lana A. Whited brings this volume up to date by covering Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Author: Joseph Lepgold
Author: Joseph Lepgold
Author: Derek Curtis BOK
Author: Nancy Baron
Author: Davarian L Baldwin
Author: Will Bunch
Author: Charlie Eaton
Author: Doug Munro
Author: Solly Baron Zuckerman
Author: Brian James Baer
Author: Lana A. Whited