Office Hours: Activism and Change in the AcademyPsychology Press, 2004 - Всего страниц: 223 Universities are in trouble. They face some tough choices about how to survive in our uncompromising times. In a series of stinging analyses this book tackles these issues head on. It argues that it's not enough to blame market forces or the indifference of politicians: academics can often be their own worst enemies. Universities are increasingly profit-driven, and the faculty seems increasingly passive in the face of political and economic pressures. This book examines the current sorry state of higher education and offers 'alternative futures' for the academy, visions that involve academic organizations, public outreach through the internet, faculty unionization, and campus organizing. Office Hours is a roll-up-your-sleeves look at the avoidable disaster facing the modern university. 'Straightforward, unpretentious, immensely readable, and on matters of extreme urgency to a very wide potential readership.' --Bruce Robbins, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University 'Office Hours is always pointed, often poetic and amusing, and never dull. Nelson and Watt accurately diagnose the serious malady that threatens American higher education, and then suggest the cure. Do read this book-it's a tonic.' --Jane Buck, President, American Association of University Professors 'Straightforward, unpretentious, immensely readable, and on matters of extreme urgency to a very wide potential readership' - Bruce Robbins, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University 'Office Hours is always pointed, often poetic and amusing, and never dull. Nelson and Watt accurately diagnose the serious malady that threatens American higher education, and then suggest the cure. |
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... chapter 3 , a department can drift into dependence on contingent labor without ever intending to do so . The collapse of state budgets from 2002 to 2004 means there will be steady pressure to in- crease reliance on part - time and non ...
... chapter 3 , a department can drift into dependence on contingent labor without ever intending to do so . The collapse of state budgets from 2002 to 2004 means there will be steady pressure to in- crease reliance on part - time and non ...
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... ( chapter 7 ) to projects aim- ing to reform the curriculum ( chapter 10 ) and collaborative outreach projects ( chapter 11 ) , from short - term ad hoc organizing around criti- cal local issues ( chapter 8 ) to strikes over wages and ...
... ( chapter 7 ) to projects aim- ing to reform the curriculum ( chapter 10 ) and collaborative outreach projects ( chapter 11 ) , from short - term ad hoc organizing around criti- cal local issues ( chapter 8 ) to strikes over wages and ...
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... chapter 10 , you cannot reform the curriculum , either at Miami Dade Community College or at Yale University , without new textbooks embodying the principles of transformed disciplines . You cannot conceive of the new textbook without ...
... chapter 10 , you cannot reform the curriculum , either at Miami Dade Community College or at Yale University , without new textbooks embodying the principles of transformed disciplines . You cannot conceive of the new textbook without ...
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... chapter 5 , remains just that : a possibility . The international effort to make job training , foreign investment , and revenue generation the primary focus of higher education , while defunding humanities based cultural critique ( chapter ...
... chapter 5 , remains just that : a possibility . The international effort to make job training , foreign investment , and revenue generation the primary focus of higher education , while defunding humanities based cultural critique ( chapter ...
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... chapters of the Young Republicans join local business leaders in demanding they be fired . Talk radio hosts take up the cause . And a Republican congressman adds his voice to the rising clamor . Donors threaten to withdraw funding . Now ...
... chapters of the Young Republicans join local business leaders in demanding they be fired . Talk radio hosts take up the cause . And a Republican congressman adds his voice to the rising clamor . Donors threaten to withdraw funding . Now ...
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Cohorts The Diaspora of the Teachers | 15 |
Anonymity Celebrity and Professional Identity | 27 |
The Postdoc Paradox | 41 |
Disciplining Debt | 53 |
The Brave New World of Research Surveillance | 69 |
The Humanities and the Perils of Globalization | 81 |
Organizational Affiliation and Change | 97 |
Is It a University or Is It a Country Club? | 117 |
Collective Action Collective Bargaining Collective Agency | 139 |
The Economics of Textbook Reform | 165 |
Transforming Teaching and Reaching the Public on the Internet | 181 |
What Would an Ethical Graduate Program Be? | 189 |
Bibliography | 213 |
Authors Notes | 217 |
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