The University We Need: Reforming American Higher Education By Warren Treadgold Though many people know that American universities now offer an inadequate and incoherent education from a leftist viewpoint that excludes moderate and conservative ideas, few people understand how much this matters, how it happened, how bad it is, or what can be done about it. In The University We Need, Professor Warren Treadgold shows the crucial role of universities in American culture and politics, the causes of their decline in administrative bloat and inept academic hiring, the effects of the decline on teaching and research, and some possible ways of reversing the downward trend. CALL 516-735-5468 or e-mail Sandy to schedule interviews with Prof. Treadgold. In The University We Need, you’ll learn: How conservative think tanks and journals have developed a wider range of ideas on trade, immigration, taxation, foreign policy, and other issues than leftists will tolerate on campus; How black, gay and feminist studies are sacrosanct, while Shakespeare and the American Revolution are mentioned, if at all, in courses on women and slavery as examples of sexism and racism; That every year many more professors with conservative or moderate views retire than are hired; That campus leftists, with strong support within the Democratic Party, still insist on the prevalence of racism, sexism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia in America; That American college degrees have never cost more and never meant less; That colleges keep expanding their use of badly paid adjunct professors hired after only a perfunctory look at their credentials; That nearly half of college students seem to be studying very little and learning very little - surely not enough to be worth anyone’s spending $100,000 or more for it; About the vague but powerful ideology that dominates American campuses today - how “socialism” fails to capture much of what this ideology is about; How “inclusivity” and “diversity” are favorite terms on campus, but they call for a striking amount of exclusion and uniformity; How the dominant doctrine has become that oppressive groups like whites, men, and heterosexuals cannot possibly understand the oppression endured by the oppressed groups; That many professors give good grades for little or no work; the majority of students will do the least work for which they think they c an get an acceptable grade; How online education has failed to take the academic world by storm so far, and wil