The politics of academic culture
Subtitle: foibles, fables, and facts
By: Heinz Eulau.
Publisher: Chatham House Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chatham, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: College teachers -- United States.; College teaching -- United States.; Education, Higher -- United States.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : the origins of a career, or, Selected documents for an academic resume; title: My forefathers and other falsifiable stories, or, A little lie can get you further than you think; title: The curriculum vitae and the iron law of the academy, or, Blowing your own horn doesn't hurt anybody else; title: Perks, boons and boondoggles, or, When freebies get you less than meets the eye; title: The perplexing perversities of perjury, or, Why untruth is not always the opposite of truth; title: The lonely crowd; title: students as products and peers, or, If your colleagues only treated us the way you do; title: What a (department) chair and a dog have in common, or, The great experience of being kicked and kicking back; title: The faculty's fallacious but felicitous faculties, or, Nemesis and when not to love thy colleague as thyself; title: Life and representation on a company farm, or, Professor quick-win hires consultant quick-fix; title: The rating, ranking and baiting game, or, Don't believe all you read about yourself even if true; title: Funding, foundations and fellowships, or, Better get what you can while the going is good; title: The pleasures of conferencing and other indoor sports, or, You haven't lived until living it up in French Lick; title: At last a little journal all my own, or, Saying no, no, no can get you into trouble; title: Burps, blurbs and the joy of having a book editor, or, How to call on your friends and deceive your readers; title: Awards and rewards for meritocratic conduct, or, Being surprised on being honored without even trying; title: The fine arts of gossiping, hyping, and spinning or How the academic mind really works; title: Trauma, valium and a cocktaill called martini, or Surviving the revolution in the trenches of the Hilton; title: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, or, Better write your own obituary before it is too late.