Wither or not the academic public intellectual across the spectrum of U.S. colleges and universities

The academic literature on public intellectuals would argue that the days of scholars playing role are long behind us, and is in decline. This chapter examines extent to which may or not be case. It defines what it means a intellectual, catalogues related thesis decline, discusses data about prevalence faculty who exhibit behaviors consistent with intellectualism how this varies by institutional type, then whether dying breed across all American higher education, just few contexts, determines possible reasons for decline intellectualism.