| What Ever Happened to the Faculty?: Drift and Decision in Higher Education Contributor(s): Burgan, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801892163 ISBN-13: 9780801892165 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Administration - General - Education | Higher - Education | Educational Policy & Reform |
| Dewey: 378.194 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.66" W x 8.8" (0.79 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this provocative work, Mary Burgan surveys the deterioration of faculty influence in higher education. From campus planning, curriculum, and instructional technology to governance, pedagogy, and academic freedom, she urges far greater consideration for the perspective of the faculty. Burgan evokes the pervasive atmosphere of charge and counter-charge on U.S. campuses, where competition trumps reason not only in athletics but also in research, faculty recruitment, and fund-raising. Relating this "winner-take-all" mentality to the overspecialization of faculty and to overreliance on non-tenure track instructors, Burgan suggests that improving life on campus depends on faculty members' successful engagement with their administrative colleagues as well as their students. Informed by experience, fueled by conviction, and full of practical, strategic advice for the future, What Ever Happened to the Faculty? is an excellent resource for administrators and faculty who are eager to change the tone and trajectory of contemporary higher education. |
Contributor Bio(s): Burgan, Mary: - Mary Burgan is former General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors, a professor of English emerita at Indiana University-Bloomington, and author of Illness, Gender, and Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield, also published by Johns Hopkins. |