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

• Autore: Ginsberg Benjamin
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.1/010973
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The fall of the faculty
• ISBN: 0-19-983147-5; 0-19-756315-5; 1-283-16840-5; 9786613168405; 0-19-978268-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781312003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.