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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... matters of extreme urgency to a very wide potential readership . " -Bruce Robbins , Columbia University " Office Hours is always pointed , often poetic and amusing , and never dull . Nelson and Watt accurately diagnose the serious ...
... matters of extreme urgency to a very wide potential readership . " -Bruce Robbins , Columbia University " Office Hours is always pointed , often poetic and amusing , and never dull . Nelson and Watt accurately diagnose the serious ...
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... matter . Many administrators , answerable to governing boards dominated by business executives , see no choice but to increase the ex- pendable instructional workforce . At the same time , they pursue more corporate partnerships despite ...
... matter . Many administrators , answerable to governing boards dominated by business executives , see no choice but to increase the ex- pendable instructional workforce . At the same time , they pursue more corporate partnerships despite ...
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... matter has little to do with con- temporary politics . The campus 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 ...
... matter has little to do with con- temporary politics . The campus 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 ...
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... matter , brought it up a week later ? When does activity cross the line to become " persistent ? " Do you want any given administrator to decide that question ? A faculty member who teaches political poetry every year , including poetry ...
... matter , brought it up a week later ? When does activity cross the line to become " persistent ? " Do you want any given administrator to decide that question ? A faculty member who teaches political poetry every year , including poetry ...
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... matter of every course . So are principles of academic freedom , as are emerging restrictions on international stu- dent access to American education . Teachers should also be free to see their role not simply as one of covering ...
... matter of every course . So are principles of academic freedom , as are emerging restrictions on international stu- dent access to American education . Teachers should also be free to see their role not simply as one of covering ...
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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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Стр. 5 - Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject, but they should be careful not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no relation to their subject.