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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456737103321

Autore

Ginsberg Benjamin

Titolo

The fall of the faculty [[electronic resource] ] : the rise of the all-administrative university and why it matters / / Benjamin Ginsberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-756315-5

1-283-16840-5

9786613168405

0-19-978268-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

378.1/010973

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - United States - Administration

Organizational behavior - United States

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States

Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States

Academic freedom - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2011.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 The Growth of Administration; 2 What Administrators Do; 3 Managerial Pathologies; 4 The Realpolitik of Race and Gender; 5 There Is No Such Thing as Academic Freedom (For Professors): The Rise and Fall of the Tenure System; 6 Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University; 7 What Is to Be Done; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Dissatisfaction with the academy runs deep in America. Despite - or perhaps because of - the fact that a far greater percentage of Americans have attended college than at any time in the past, distrust of the higher education system seems higher than ever. This book explores the dissatisfaction with the academy.