Last Professors The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, with a New Introduction

Name: Last Professors The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, with a New Introduction
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ISBN: 9780823228607

ISBN-10: 0823228606

ISBN-13: 9780823228607

Edition: 3rd 2008

Authors: Frank Donoghue

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What makes the modern university different from any other corporation? asked Columbias 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 corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor.Taking a clear-eyed look at American higher education over the last twenty years, Donoghue outlines a web of forcessocial, political, and institutionaldismantling the professoriate. Today, fewer than 30 percent of college and university teachers are tenured or on tenure tracks, and signs point…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Rhetoric, History, and the Problems of the Humanities



Competing in Academia



The Erosion of Tenure



Professors of the Future



Prestige and Prestige Envy


Notes


Bibliography


Index