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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... corporate partnerships despite the loss of independence and shift in mission they entail . As a result , arts and humanities faculty in particular may come to feel increasingly less common cause with their administra- tions . This could ...
... corporate partnerships despite the loss of independence and shift in mission they entail . As a result , arts and humanities faculty in particular may come to feel increasingly less common cause with their administra- tions . This could ...
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... corporate pressure to focus education on job training , decreasing politi- cal support for higher education funding , increasing student demand for services — all these and more do not bode well for disciplines unable to generate their ...
... corporate pressure to focus education on job training , decreasing politi- cal support for higher education funding , increasing student demand for services — all these and more do not bode well for disciplines unable to generate their ...
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... corporate funding has begun to reshape research missions and prior- ities . But new federal funding is beginning to ... corporations that treat many of their employees the same way . As universities behave more and more like our most ...
... corporate funding has begun to reshape research missions and prior- ities . But new federal funding is beginning to ... corporations that treat many of their employees the same way . As universities behave more and more like our most ...
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... corporate values that university administrators and governing boards increasingly espouse . It is now regularly the case that faculty com- mitted to making the university a fair , even a model , workplace , are fun- damentally at odds ...
... corporate values that university administrators and governing boards increasingly espouse . It is now regularly the case that faculty com- mitted to making the university a fair , even a model , workplace , are fun- damentally at odds ...
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... corporate publishers who own reprint rights has nearly made such efforts financially impossible . In contrast , chapter 8 tells the remarkable story of how local organizing saved a nature pre- serve threatened with destruction , and ...
... corporate publishers who own reprint rights has nearly made such efforts financially impossible . In contrast , chapter 8 tells the remarkable story of how local organizing saved a nature pre- serve threatened with destruction , and ...
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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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