The Fall of the Faculty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fall of the Faculty write by Benjamin Ginsberg. This book was released on 2013-08-15. The Fall of the Faculty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"—administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience—are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrative blight that now plagues the nation's universities. In the past decade, universities have added layers of administrators and staffers to their payrolls every year even while laying off full-time faculty in increasing numbers—ostensibly because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly minted—and non-academic—administrators are career managers who downplay the importance of teaching and research, as evidenced by their tireless advocacy for a banal "life skills" curriculum. Consequently, students are denied a more enriching educational experience—one defined by intellectual rigor. Ginsberg also reveals how the legitimate grievances of minority groups and liberal activists, which were traditionally championed by faculty members, have, in the hands of administrators, been reduced to chess pieces in a game of power politics. By embracing initiatives such as affirmative action, the administration gained favor with these groups and legitimized a thinly cloaked gambit to bolster their power over the faculty. As troubling as this trend has become, there are ways to reverse it. The Fall of the Faculty outlines how we can revamp the system so that real educators can regain their voice in curriculum policy.
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance write by Larry G. Gerber. This book was released on 2014-09-15. The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There was a time when the faculty governed universities. Not anymore. The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in the late nineteenth century and was the principal justification for granting teachers power in making educational decisions. In the twentieth century, the efforts of these governing faculties were directly responsible for molding American higher education into the finest academic system in the world. In recent decades, however, the growing complexity of “multiversities” and the application of business strategies to manage these institutions threatened the concept of faculty governance. Faculty shifted from being autonomous professionals to being “employees.” The casualization of the academic labor market, Gerber argues, threatens to erode the quality of universities. As more faculty become contingent employees, rather than tenured career professionals enjoying both job security and intellectual autonomy, universities become factories in the knowledge economy. In addition to tracing the evolution of faculty decision making, this historical narrative provides readers with an important perspective on contemporary debates about the best way to manage America’s colleges and universities. Gerber also reflects on whether American colleges and universities will be able to retain their position of global preeminence in an increasingly market-driven environment, given that the system of governance that helped make their success possible has been fundamentally altered.
The Lost Soul of Higher Education
The Lost Soul of Higher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Soul of Higher Education write by Ellen Schrecker. This book was released on 2010. The Lost Soul of Higher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Schrecker, the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, examines both the key fronts in the present battles over higher ed, and their historical parallels in previous eras - offering a deeply-researched chronicle of the challenges to academic freedom, set against the rapidly changing structure of the academy itself. "The Lost Soul of Higher Education" tells the interwoven stories of successive, well-funded ideological assaults on academic freedom by outside pressure groups aimed at undermining the legitimacy of scholarly study, viewed alongside decades of eroding higher education budgets -- a trend that has sharply accelerated during the recent economic downturn.
The Fall of the American University
The Fall of the American University - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fall of the American University write by Adam B. Ulam. This book was released on 1972. The Fall of the American University available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Instructional Faculty and Staff in Higher Education Institutions
Instructional Faculty and Staff in Higher Education Institutions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Instructional Faculty and Staff in Higher Education Institutions write by Rita J. Kirshstein. This book was released on 1997. Instructional Faculty and Staff in Higher Education Institutions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
