The Fall of the Faculty
Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, deanlets--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda.The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrative blight that now plagues the nation's universities. In the past decade, universities have added layers of administrators and staffers to their payrolls every year even while laying off full-time faculty…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-978268-0
- EAN: 9780199782680
- Produktnummer: 13998949
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'279 KB
Über den Autor
Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for the Study of American Government, and Chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University. His previous books include Downsizing Democracy, American Government: Power and Purpose, and We the People: An Introduction to American Politics.
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