The last professors [electronic resource] : the corporate university and the fate of the humanities / Frank Donoghue.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xix, 180 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 378.1/21 22
LOC classification:
  • LB2331.72 .D66 2008eb
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Contents:
Rhetoric, history, and the problems of the humanities -- Competing in Academia -- The erosion of tenure -- Professors of the future -- Prestige and prestige envy.
Summary: 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 teachers are tenured or on tenure tracks, and signs point to a future where professors will disappear. --from publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-170) and index.

Rhetoric, history, and the problems of the humanities -- Competing in Academia -- The erosion of tenure -- Professors of the future -- Prestige and prestige envy.

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 teachers are tenured or on tenure tracks, and signs point to a future where professors will disappear. --from publisher description.

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