No Neutral Ground: Standing By the Values We Prize in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) - Hardcover

Young, Robert B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787908002 ISBN 13: 9780787908003

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1997

Synopsis

No Neutral Ground will provoke some and bring praise from others. Written with passion and a personal sense of mission, this book offers something to everyone who cares about institutional values and ethical standards.


?Richard T. Ingram, president, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges

A provocative book that explores seven timeless values of higher education?service, truth, freedom, equality, individuation, justice, and community?and shows how higher education administrators, faculty, and trustees can incorporate these values into their own practice and transmit them to students and the community at large.

About this title

About the Author

ROBERT B. YOUNG is professor of education and coordinator of educational leadership at Ohio University.

From the Back Cover

Today's climate of public cynicism toward education is being fueled by the contentious social and economic battles plaguing our nation's campuses. To withstand these assaults, it is imperative that those in higher education rediscover and manifest the values which fundamentally exemplify the objectives of higher education. No Neutral Ground is a provocative book that explores seven timeless values of higher education--service, truth, freedom, individuation, justice, and community--and shows how higher education administrators, faculty, and trustees can incorporate these values into their own practice and transmit them to students and the community at large.

From the Inside Flap

If the academy is to continue to play a critical role in determining the beliefs and behavior of American society, it is vital that those within higher education remain clear and consistent about their core values. In this book, author Robert B. Young identifies seven essential values (service, truth, freedom, equality, individuation, justice, and community) and explains how higher education administrators, faculty, and trustees can incorporate these values into their own practice and transmit them to students and the community at large. Inspirational and insightful, No Neutral Ground offers practical suggestions designed to help administrators, trustees, and faculty hold on to core values in the face of steady pressures to compromise and change. Young explores the tensions that arise when institutional values come into conflict with broader social interests, such as free enterprise and religion. And he examines each of the seven core values in depth, showing, for example, how the value of freedom relates to faculty functions, administrative duties, institutional autonomy, and student rights.Both a thoughtful and a thought-provoking book, No Neutral Ground will help administrators, trustees, and faculty chart a steady course through the turbulent climate on today's college campuses.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787908002
• ISBN 13: 9780787908003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 251