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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... intellectual independence and institutional influ- ence deteriorate . While most academics have looked exclusively to external forces to explain this crisis , we place a significant part of the blame on the professoriate itself . At the ...
... intellectual independence and institutional influ- ence deteriorate . While most academics have looked exclusively to external forces to explain this crisis , we place a significant part of the blame on the professoriate itself . At the ...
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... intellectual growth of disciplines is altogether collective , made up of ongoing work by groups and individuals that is mutually reinforcing , competitive , and transfor- mative . If the system loses much of its arts and humanities ...
... intellectual growth of disciplines is altogether collective , made up of ongoing work by groups and individuals that is mutually reinforcing , competitive , and transfor- mative . If the system loses much of its arts and humanities ...
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... intellectual work in- evitably takes place on campuses whose faculties have the time and re- sources to do it . Even dedicated part - time faculty , however overworked and underpaid , do innovative intellectual work , but not enough to ...
... intellectual work in- evitably takes place on campuses whose faculties have the time and re- sources to do it . Even dedicated part - time faculty , however overworked and underpaid , do innovative intellectual work , but not enough to ...
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... intellectual life . Despite all the good work it has done , the AAUP's 1940 statement has too narrow and constipated a view of appropriate classroom speech , one that fetishizes subject matter and creates a classroom that is a bizarre ...
... intellectual life . Despite all the good work it has done , the AAUP's 1940 statement has too narrow and constipated a view of appropriate classroom speech , one that fetishizes subject matter and creates a classroom that is a bizarre ...
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... intellectual authority . But we do . Over the last half century , higher education has become the home of many of the country's critical intellectuals . They cannot speak with authority if their institutional homes are rightly perceived ...
... intellectual authority . But we do . Over the last half century , higher education has become the home of many of the country's critical intellectuals . They cannot speak with authority if their institutional homes are rightly perceived ...
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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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