In the Basement of the Ivory Tower Confessions of an Accidental Academic

Name: In the Basement of the Ivory Tower Confessions of an Accidental Academic
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ISBN: 9780670022564

ISBN-10: 067002256X

ISBN-13: 9780670022564

Edition: 2011

Authors: Professor X

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A caustic expose of the deeply state of our colleges-America's most expensive Ponzi scheme. What drives a former English major with a creative writing degree, several unpublished novels, three kids, and a straining marriage to take a job as a night teacher at a second-rate college? An unaffordable mortgage. As his house starts falling apart in every imaginable way, Professor X grabs first one, then two jobs teaching English 101 and 102-composition and literature-at a small private college and a local community college. He finds himself on the front lines of America's academic crisis. It's quite an education. This is the story of what he learns about his struggling pupils, about the college…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/31/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English