The same changes are sweeping through academic research, he asserted, and at a pace that's quicker than most people think.
A visitor to West Point sees sweeping Hudson River vistas, stately academic halls, well-groomed athletic fields, and even better groomed students.
A new wave of violent attacks against academics is sweeping campuses in Athens and Thessaloniki, leading Greek professors to question a law that bans police officers from entering university grounds.
He acknowledged that the high-stakes tests sweeping the nation along with new academic standards had, in some places, overwhelmed students and schools, but he said assessment was a critical component of reform.
That shift in purpose has precipitated sweeping design changes that are showing up in academic libraries across the country, say architects, librarians and educators involved in their construction and renovation.
If nothing is done to reverse the destructive tide of casualisation that has been sweeping through higher education over the last 2 decades, then academic research will simply fail to attract graduates and postgraduates.
As nationalism has been rising in Turkey in response to the broad changes sweeping society, so have the number of court cases against writers, publishers and academics.
Within academic sociology,Young was criticised as romantic, unscientific and too ready to draw sweeping conclusions.
But to my taste, he spoils the early sections of the book with too many prolonged academic engagements, and with rival views of when nationalism first arose, rather than sweeping all that into footnotes for the specialist.
