Description: New realities on campuses across the country have thrown US higher education into crisis. This book provides new ideas for facing the main challenges and problems, resulting in a new model of belonging for the multiplicities of race, ethnicity, gender, class, age, and nationality--and more--in actual and potential college communities.
Brief description: Naomi Zack is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY. Her recent books are Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies, The American Tragedy of COVID-19: Social and Political Crises of 2020, Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government, and Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics.
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In Multiplicity, Belonging, and Free Speech in US Higher Education, Naomi Zack brilliantly demonstrates how moral philosophy can contribute to challenges facing the contemporary American University. Having explored these issues with her many students, Zack brings to us fresh approaches that address chronic contemporary challenges: student admissions and retention, racial and class diversity, adjunct faculty, responsible speech, a better anchoring of the humanities, and other matters that make equity, community, and academic investigations collectively sustainable. Her work makes an original and timely contribution to the growing, needed discourse on university ethics today.