The last professors
Subtitle: the twilight of the humanities in the corporate university
By: Frank Donoghue.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780823228591; 9780823228607
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty; College teachers -- Professional relationships -- United States; College teachers -- United States -- Tenure; Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
Description: Taking a clear-eyed look at American higher education over the last twenty years, Donoghue outlines a web of forces--social, political, and institutional--dismantling the professoriate. Today, fewer than 30 percent of college and university teachers are tenured or on tenure tracks, and signs point to a future where professors will disappear. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rhetoric, history, and the problems of the humanities; title: Competing in Academia; title: The erosion of tenure; title: Professors of the future; title: Prestige and prestige envy.