The Last Professors : The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Donoghue, Frank, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Humanities > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States.
College teachers > Tenure > United States.
College teachers > Professional relationships > United States.
Universities and colleges > United States > Faculty.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rhetoric, history, and the problems of the humanities
  • Competing in Academia
  • The erosion of tenure
  • Professors of the future
  • Prestige and prestige envy.

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