The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, with a New Introduction
What makes the modern university different from any other corporation? asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. There is more and more reason to think: less and less, he answered.In this provocative book, Frank Donoghue shows how this growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor.Taking a clear-eyed look at American higher education over the last twenty years, Donoghue outlines a web of forces-social, political, and institutional-dismantling the professoriate. Today, fewer than 30 percent of college and university teach…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2859-1
- EAN: 9780823228591
- Produktnummer: 3483994
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 180 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.0 cm 426 g
- Gewicht: 426
Über den Autor
Frank Donoghue is Professor of English at the Ohio State University. He is the author of The Fame Machine: Book Reviewing and Eighteenth-Century Literary Careers.
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