The last professors : the twilight of the humanities in the corporate university /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | 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 to a future where professors will disappear. --from publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 180 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823238484 0823238482 9780823246892 0823246892 9780823228614 0823228614 |