The fall of the faculty : the rise of the all-administrative university and why it matters

The fall of the faculty : the rise of the all-administrative university and why it matters / Benjamin Ginsberg.

"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 staffer...

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Main Author: Ginsberg, Benjamin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Universities and colleges > United States > Administration.
Organizational behavior > United States.
Teacher participation in administration > United States.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States.
Education, Higher > Social aspects > United States.
Academic freedom > United States.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Academic freedom
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Education, Higher > Social aspects
Organizational behavior
Teacher participation in administration
Universities and colleges > Administration
United States
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • The growth of administration
  • What administrators do
  • Managerial pathologies
  • The realpolitik of race and gender
  • There is no such thing as academic freedom (for professors): the rise and fall of the tenure system
  • Research and teaching at the all-administrative university
  • What is to be done.

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