Hutchins's University of Utopia: Institutional Independence, Academic Freedom, and Radical Restructuring

Autor/in	Hoff, Peter Sloat
Titel	Hutchins's University of Utopia: Institutional Independence, Academic Freedom, and Radical Restructuring
Quelle	In: Innovative Higher Education, 34 (2009) 4, S.203-217 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0742-5627
DOI	10.1007/s10755-009-9112-5
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Academic Freedom; Educational Change; College Role; Educational Principles; College Environment; Politics of Education; Institutional Autonomy; Role of Education; Educational Policy; Educational Philosophy; Educational Innovation; College Presidents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Akademische Freiheit; Bildungsreform; Bildungsprinzip; Hochschulumwelt; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Institutionelle Autonomie; Bildungsauftrag; Politics of education; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; College president; Hochschulpräsident
Abstract	In a crisis-plagued world looking to higher education for knowledge, wisdom, and solutions, higher education itself is stumbling. Its transformational thinking has frozen up like an overstressed computer program; and we need, in effect, to "push the reset button." In 1953, the renowned and controversial president of the University of Chicago, Robert M. Hutchins, authored a refreshing and provocative work, "The University of Utopia," containing ideas that still challenge today's paradigms. He argued for institutional independence over "accountability," "outcomes," and "stakeholders." He indicted educational evils he called "industrialization," "specialization," "philosophical diversity," and "social and political conformity" and suggested ways to defeat them. Although his 56-year-old thoughts on reconceptualizing the multiversity are not a panacea, they could help higher education make a fresh start. This essay reintroduces the modern reader to Hutchins's iconoclastic and stimulating ideas in the hope of restarting the stalled agenda for educational reform. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10