Cary Nelson, Stephen Watt

Office Hours

Activism and Change in the Academy

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Produktbeschreibung

In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education. The second half of the volume offers "alternative futures" for the academy, visions that involve academic organizations, public outreach through the internet, faculty unionization, and campus organizing. Office Hours is a roll-up-your-sleeves look at the avoidable disaster facing the modern university.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780415971850
• ISBN-10: 0415971853
• Artikelnr.: 21957003

Autorenporträt

Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Stephen Watt is Chair of the Department of English, Indiana University. They are coauthors of Academic Keywords, also published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 Part One Where We Are and How We Got There
Chapter 1 1. Cohorts - The Diaspora of the Teachers
Chapter 2 2. Anonymity, Celebrity, and Professional Identity
Chapter 3 3. The Postdoc Paradox
Chapter 4 4. Disciplining Debt
Chapter 5 5. The Brave New World of Research Surveillance
Chapter 6 6. The Humanities and the Perils of Globalization
Part 2 Part Two Toward Alternative Futures
Chapter 7 7. Organizational Affiliation and Change
Chapter 8 8. Is It a University or Is It a Country Club?
Chapter 9 9. Collective Action, Collective Bargaining, Collective Agency
Chapter 10 10. The Economics of Textbook Reform
Chapter 11 11. Transforming Teaching and Reaching the Public on the Internet
Chapter 12 12. What Would an Ethical Graduate Program Be?