Description
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.
Table of Contents
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?;
