The last professors the corporate university and the fate of the humanities /

Taking a clear-eyed look at American higher education over the last twenty years, Donoghue outlines a web of forces--social, political, and institutional--dismantling the professoriate. Today, fewer than 30 percent of college and university teachers are tenured or on tenure tracks, and signs point t...

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Huvudskapare: Donoghue, Frank, 1958-
Institutionell skapare: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
Upplaga:1st ed.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • Rhetoric, history, and the problems of the humanities
  • Competing in Academia
  • The erosion of tenure
  • Professors of the future
  • Prestige and prestige envy.