Hard Eight: Auto-ethnographic Essays on Academic Culture Featuring the End of the Arts & Sciences College College, University of Toledo, 2010 (original) (raw)

This collection of auto-ethnographic essays reflects on the academic culture at the University of Toledo, particularly concerning the decline of the College of Arts and Sciences between 2006 and 2010. The author critiques the administrative changes that undermined traditional academic values and highlights the impact of a postmodern educational philosophy. Key themes include the disruption caused by a shift towards a profit-driven model in higher education and the potential of counterfactual thinking to foster critical inquiry in the classroom.