Traveling Through the Boondocks
Subtitle: In and Out of Academic Hierarchy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780791446607
Subjects: Literary theory; Universities / polytechnics; Higher; Education; Education / Teaching; United States; USA; Philosophy & Social Aspects; College teaching; Case studies; College teachers; Education, Higher; Political aspects; Selection and appointment
Description: "What is it like to be a faculty member at a university in the United States that enjoys no reputation or distinction? Traveling through the Boondocks discusses this situation not from the top down but from the bottom up, where the experience of exclusion ranges from that of departments where scholarship gets to count in hiring decisions to conferences where only individuals from elite institutions get to appear on stage. This book reinvigorates our understanding of higher education by illuminating the everyday conditions under which academics work and the hierarchical distinctions in which they are always embedded."--Jacket.