LEADER 04025nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910825992203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-773228-3 010 $a1-280-53034-0 010 $a0-19-535205-X 010 $a1-4294-0469-8 024 7 $a10.1093/oso/9780195126822.001.0001 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(Au-PeEL)EBL271560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10278431 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53034 035 $a(OCoLC)466425270 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC271560 035 $a(OCoLC)1406786444 035 $a(StDuBDS)9780197732281 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000414766 100 $a19980922d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGone for good $etales of university life after the golden age /$fStuart Rojstaczer 205 $aFirst edition. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (200 pages) 225 1 $aOxford scholarship online. 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 1999. 311 0 $a0-19-512682-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 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 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 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; 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 mess 330 8 $aAs a series of essays, this book is laced with personal anecdotes about what it means to be a professor, a science professor in particular, and how the American university has changed now that federal funding is being curbed. 410 0$aOxford scholarship online. 606 $aEducation, Higher$zUnited States 606 $aCollege teaching$zUnited States 615 0$aEducation, Higher 615 0$aCollege teaching 676 $a378.73 700 $aRojstaczer$b Stuart$01624701 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825992203321 996 $aGone for good$93959846 997 $aUNINA