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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... 165 181 11. Transforming Teaching and Reaching the Public on the Internet 12. What Would an Ethical Graduate Program Be ? 189 Bibliography 213 Authors ' Notes 217 Index 219 Preface Within a very few years , higher education as vi • ...
... 165 181 11. Transforming Teaching and Reaching the Public on the Internet 12. What Would an Ethical Graduate Program Be ? 189 Bibliography 213 Authors ' Notes 217 Index 219 Preface Within a very few years , higher education as vi • ...
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... teaching loads , decreased li- brary resources , decreased research funding , declining real salaries in less entrepreneurial disciplines , increasingly centralized curricular con- trol , steadily increasing reliance on contingent labor ...
... teaching loads , decreased li- brary resources , decreased research funding , declining real salaries in less entrepreneurial disciplines , increasingly centralized curricular con- trol , steadily increasing reliance on contingent labor ...
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... teaching the class felt himself unable to talk about chemistry . He spoke instead about King and his legacy . The AAUP's fa- mous 1940 " Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure " includes the following warning : " Teachers ...
... teaching the class felt himself unable to talk about chemistry . He spoke instead about King and his legacy . The AAUP's fa- mous 1940 " Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure " includes the following warning : " Teachers ...
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... teaching a class on constitutional law have more war- rant to discuss the detentions than one teaching a class on religious phi- losophy ? Academic freedom should mean that each individual faculty member has the right to decide such ...
... teaching a class on constitutional law have more war- rant to discuss the detentions than one teaching a class on religious phi- losophy ? Academic freedom should mean that each individual faculty member has the right to decide such ...
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... teaching — because the salaries , benefits , and working conditions of teachers and other employ- ees are part of the structure that makes every class possible . They are part of the hidden subject matter of every course . So are ...
... teaching — because the salaries , benefits , and working conditions of teachers and other employ- ees are part of the structure that makes every class possible . They are part of the hidden subject matter of every course . So are ...
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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.