H. N. Hirsch

Office Hours

One Academic Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Even a cursory glance at today's headlines reveals that higher education is in crisis. Tuition outpaces inflation, states slash budgets, graduation rates decline, and technology threatens to reshape everything. Universities continue to crank out new PhDs, but many will become poorly paid members of a secondary, adjunct labor force teaching most of today's college courses. Scholars lucky enough to be on the tenure track must publish more and more, while students at large universities sit in ever larger lectures, seldom interacting with professors. Yet every year, thousands of applicants from the world over apply to America's most prestigious colleges and universities, and students and their families continue to spend huge sums on college. ¿ What are colleges and universities really like--from the inside? What do we do wrong, and what are we doing right? What is it like to be a professor and administrator at one of America's prestigious educational institutions? This memoir asks these questions, in a very personal way. ¿ "This is the story of a serious scholar finding his vocation, his students and his gratifications, amidst the near-impossibility of such discoveries in higher education today. The writing is beautiful and the accounts of times, places and institutions are alternatively moving, penetrating and provocative." - Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley ¿ "Written in lyrical and sparkling prose, Harry Hirsch's Office Hours is, on the one hand, an intimate and insightful memoir of a Jewish gay man's trajectory from a Chicago boyhood to Princeton, Harvard, and beyond. On the other hand, it's a penetrating critical analysis of college and university approaches to education by an accomplished professor and dean (and dedicated teacher) who knows of what he speaks. Office Hours draws back the curtain on a major way of American life-the academic way-revealing at once the bright spots and the rotten ones. It should be read by every dean, professor, and adjunct, and by anyone involved in an academic career or contemplating one." - Priscilla Long, Author of The Writer's Portable Mentor and Crossing Over: Poems

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quid Pro, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781610273336
• ISBN-10: 1610273338
• Artikelnr.: 44582071

Autorenporträt

A graduate of the University of Michigan, with advanced degrees from Princeton University, H.N. Hirsch is the Erwin N. Griswold Professor of Politics Emeritus at Oberlin College in Ohio, where he also held a joint appointment from 2005-2014 in Comparative American Studies; served as Acting Chair of the Department of Politics in 2010-2011; and was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 2005-06. He began his career at Harvard, where he was Head Tutor in the Department of Government; he later served as Director of the Legal Studies Program at Macalester College; and chaired the Department of Political Science at the University of California at San Diego and at Macalester. His first mystery, SHADE, was published by Pisgah Press in May 2022. He is the author or editor of Office Hours: One Academic Life (2016); A Theory of Liberty: The Constitution and Minorities (1992); and The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter (1981/2014); and editor of The Future of Gay Rights in America (2005).Among his areas of legal expertise are Constitutional law and jurisprudence; and modern political theory; and gender and sexuality.