Higher Education at a Crossroads

«Philosophical, autobiographical, historical, and political, Paul R. Geisler's intellectually engaging interdisciplinary analysis enables us to imagine, as he terms it, a 'cosmopolitically based 3rd curriculum' designed to 'deconstruct' and 'displace' conservative efforts at academic censorship through testing and accreditation. It is a book at the crossroads; be sure to meet him there!» (William F. Pinar, Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia)
«In his dissatisfaction with 'the lived curriculum' of our current universities, Paul R. Geisler has imagined a new educational epistemology to replace our current entrapment in the needlessly restrictive coils of disciplinarity. Many of us who despair at the current state of undergraduate education in the universities have reacted to the same dilemma - how do we empower students to think without telling them what to think? - but few have come up with such an imaginative way of reconceptualizing the dilemma. Creative university malcontents need to read this book.» (Stanley N. Katz, Professor, Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University)
«If you have not sold your mind to the corporate world yet and still believe the intellectual is first and foremost a scholar, then read this book. The university can be saved from the corroding nature of corporate-think, but intellectuals need to reclaim their primary responsibility to thought before the dyseased university can be challenged. Paul R. Geisler provides the evidence of how university performance standards are not standards at all, but a failed manoeuvre to control what students think and what professors teach.» (John A. Weaver, Georgia Southern University; Author of 'Rethinking Academic Politics in (re)unified Germany and the United States')