Gone for Good : Tales of University Life after the Golden Age.

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As a series of engaging essays, this book is laced with personal anecdotes about what it means to be a professor, a science professor in particular, and how the American university has changed now that the era of exponential growth in federal funding is over. Its central purpose is to try to stimula...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rojstaczer, Stuart
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Education, Higher > United States.
College teaching > United States.
College teaching
Education, Higher
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: why no one seems to know, even my mother, what I do at work; SECTION ONE: Undergraduate Life; 2 Lowering the Bar: why we have such low intellectual expectations for students even though they could easily do more; 3 The Prestige Business: what services the university provides students and why we charge so much for tuition; 4 Shortening the Yellow Brick Road: why we have made college easier, yet no one seems to mind or care; 5 The Sports Machine: how universities entertain their students and alumni and why and how we've crossed the line of good judgment. 
505 8 |a SECTION TWO: Research and Graduate Education6 Heart and Soul: why graduate students are often more important than professors; 7 Grants or Goodbye: why we spend so much time writing our grant proposals; 8 Why Research?: what professors do when they don't teach and why they do it; SECTION THREE: Campus Politics; 9 Matchmaking: how we hire and why we move to other universities; 10 The End of the Golden Age: why the e. 
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