LEADER 03857nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910451337703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-53034-0 010 $a0-19-535205-X 010 $a1-4294-0469-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000414766 035 $a(EBL)271560 035 $a(OCoLC)476007613 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164407 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11164715 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164407 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10120544 035 $a(PQKB)11205784 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC271560 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL271560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10278431 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53034 035 $a(OCoLC)466425270 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000414766 100 $a19980922d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGone for good$b[electronic resource] $etales of university life after the golden age /$fStuart Rojstaczer 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (200 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-512682-3 327 $aContents; 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 judgment 327 $aSECTION TWO: Research and Graduate Education6 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 over 327 $a11 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 327 $a15 Getting Tenure: what it takes to get tenure, why standards have risen, and why they will continue to rise16 Rolling the Dice: why the American university is still valuable even though it looks to be in such a mess 330 $aAs a series of engaging 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 the era of exponential growth in federal funding is over. Its central purpose is to try to stimulate discussion and challenge the status quo. 606 $aEducation, Higher$zUnited States 606 $aCollege teaching$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEducation, Higher 615 0$aCollege teaching 676 $a378.73 700 $aRojstaczer$b Stuart$0979852 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451337703321 996 $aGone for good$92234799 997 $aUNINA