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

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"What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. "There is more and more reason to think: less and less," he answered. In this provocative book, Frank Donoghue shows how this growing cor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Donoghue, Frank, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] FORDHAM University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges > United States > Faculty.
College teachers > Professional relationships > United States.
College teachers > Tenure > United States.
Humanities > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States.
Universités > États-Unis > Corps enseignant.
Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur) > Permanence > États-Unis.
EDUCATION / Higher.
College teachers > Tenure
Humanities > Study and teaching (Higher)
Universities and colleges > Faculty
United States
Adjunct Professors.
College.
Corporatization.
For-profit universities.
Graduate School.
Higher Education.
Humanities.
Neoliberalism.
Professors.
Tenure.
Universities.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • 1. Rhetoric, History, and the Problems of the Humanities
  • 2. Competing in Academia
  • 3. The Erosion of Tenure
  • 4. Professors of the Future
  • 5. Prestige and Prestige Envy
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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