Michael M. Crow has served as the president of Arizona State University since 2002. William B. Dabars is the senior director of research for the New American University in the Office of the President and a research professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. Crow and Dabars are the coauthors of Designing the New American University and The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education.
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Table of Contents Glimpses from the Futures of Academic Cultures: A Preface and Introduction Part 1: Perspective on Academic Cultures 1. Academic Cultures: Toward Perspective from the Twenty-Second Century 2. Monuments of Unageing Intellect Part 2: Speculative Approaches to the Future of Academic Cultures 3. Beyond the University: How the Coevolution of Cities and Learning Infrastructures Became Dynamic Attractors for a Planet in Transition 4. gAI(a), Or, A Lecture on the History of the University 5. Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft 6. Romantic Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century 7. Report of the 2100 Commission on Higher Education: Background Paper Part 3: Melioristic Aspirations and Cautionary Tales 8. A Compact on Fire: Higher Education's Knowledge Crisis in the Twenty-First Century 9. Fast Thinkers but Slow Learners on a Hotter Planet: Hubris and the Human Prospect 10. The Liberal Arts in the Twenty-First Century: A Cautionary Tale 11. The Broken Culture of Academic Writing Part 4: Academic Cultures in the Near Term 12. Exit, Voice, Loyalty and the Future of Academic Culture 13. Reinventing America's Research Universities: A View Toward the Near Future 14. Tradition, Cost, and Scale in Contemporary Higher Education 15. A University for the Uncategorizable Postscript and Commentary Author Bios