04025nam 2200685Ia 450 991082599220332120200520144314.00-19-773228-31-280-53034-00-19-535205-X1-4294-0469-810.1093/oso/9780195126822.001.0001(CKB)1000000000414766(EBL)271560(OCoLC)476007613(SSID)ssj0000164407(PQKBManifestationID)11164715(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164407(PQKBWorkID)10120544(PQKB)11205784(Au-PeEL)EBL271560(CaPaEBR)ebr10278431(CaONFJC)MIL53034(OCoLC)466425270(MiAaPQ)EBC271560(OCoLC)1406786444(StDuBDS)9780197732281(EXLCZ)99100000000041476619980922d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGone for good tales of university life after the golden age /Stuart RojstaczerFirst edition.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press19991 online resource (200 pages)Oxford scholarship online.Previously issued in print: 1999.0-19-512682-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: why no one seems to know, even my mother, what I do at work; SECTION ONE: Undergraduate Life; 2 Lowering the Bar: why we have such low intellectual expectations for students even though they could easily do more; 3 The Prestige Business: what services the university provides students and why we charge so much for tuition; 4 Shortening the Yellow Brick Road: why we have made college easier, yet no one seems to mind or care; 5 The Sports Machine: how universities entertain their students and alumni and why and how we've crossed the line of good judgmentSECTION TWO: Research and Graduate Education; 6 Heart and Soul: why graduate students are often more important than professors; 7 Grants or Goodbye: why we spend so much time writing our grant proposals; 8 Why Research?: what professors do when they don't teach and why they do it; SECTION THREE: Campus Politics; 9 Matchmaking: how we hire and why we move to other universities; 10 The End of the Golden Age: why the era of exponential growth has ended and why it's a good thing that it's over11 Shaking the Tree: why universities are increasingly turning to alumni, foundations and corporations, and what they will and will not do in exchange for money12 You've Got to Believe: why we blindly follow the latest trends in academic fashion even though it makes us look ridiculous; 13 The Fifty Percent Solution: why there are so few female professors, and why there aren't likely to be more in the foreseeable future; 14 Making Adjustments: how to adapt to the life of a professor without getting too crazy; 15 Getting Tenure: what it takes to get tenure, why standards have risen, and why they will continue to rise; 16 Rolling the Dice: why the American university is still valuable even though it looks to be in such a messAs a series of essays, this book is laced with personal anecdotes about what it means to be a professor, a science professor in particular, and how the American university has changed now that federal funding is being curbed.Oxford scholarship online.Education, HigherUnited StatesCollege teachingUnited StatesEducation, HigherCollege teaching378.73Rojstaczer Stuart1624701MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825992203321Gone for good3959846UNINA