The fall of the faculty : the rise of the all-administrative university and why it matters /

Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"---administrators and staffers oft...

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Main Author: Ginsberg, Benjamin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
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