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The Fall of The Faculty : The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

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Title: The Fall of The Faculty : The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters
Author: Benjamin Ginsberg
ISBN: 0199975434 / 9780199975433
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 264
Publisher: Oxford
Year: 2011
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Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experienceare setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrative blight that now plagues the nation's universities. In the past decade, universities have added layers of administrators and staffers to their payrolls every year even while laying off full-time faculty in increasing numbersostensibly because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly mintedand non-academicadministrators are career managers who downplay the importance of teaching and research, as evidenced by their tireless advocacy for a banal "life skills" curriculum. Consequently, students are denied a more enriching educational experienceone defined by intellectual rigor. Ginsberg also reveals how the legitimate grievances of minority groups and liberal activists, which were traditionally championed by faculty members, have, in the hands of administrators, been reduced to chess pieces in a game of power politics. By embracing initiatives such as affirmative action, the administration gained favor with these groups and legitimized a thinly cloaked gambit to bolster their power over the faculty. As troubling as this trend has become, there are ways to reverse it. The Fall of the Faculty outlines how we can revamp the system so that real educators can regain their voice in curriculum policy.

Preface

Chapter 1 : The Growth of Administration
Chapter 2 : What Administrators Do
Chapter 3 : Managerial Pathologies
Chapter 4 : The Realpolitik of Race and Gender
Chapter 5 : There Is No Such Thing as Acedemic Freedom (For Professors): The Rise and Fall of the Tenure System
Chapter 6 : Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University
Chapter 7 : What Is to Be Done

Notes
Index

 
 
 
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