Author: Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019978244X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
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 experience--are 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 numbers--ostensibly because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly minted--and non-academic--administrators 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 experience--one 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.
The Fall of the Faculty
Author: Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019978244X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
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 experience--are 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 numbers--ostensibly because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly minted--and non-academic--administrators 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 experience--one 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.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 019978244X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
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 experience--are 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 numbers--ostensibly because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly minted--and non-academic--administrators 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 experience--one 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.
A Report to the Faculty
Author: University of Minnesota. College of Education. Committee on College Policy and Faculty Responsibility for Superior Teaching and Advising of Students
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Languages : en
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Preliminary Report on Teaching Faculty in Higher Education, 1962-63
Author: Ralph Emerson Dunham
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Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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One Report
Author: Robert G. Eccles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781119199960
Category : Corporation reports
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
"One Report" refers to an emerging trend in business taking place throughout the world where companies are going beyond separate reports for financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) results and integrating both into a single integrated report. At the same time, they are also leveraging the Internet to provide more detailed results to all of their stakeholders and for improving their level of dialogue and engagement with them. Providing best practice examples from companies around the world, One Report shows how integrated reporting adds tre.
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ISBN: 9781119199960
Category : Corporation reports
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
"One Report" refers to an emerging trend in business taking place throughout the world where companies are going beyond separate reports for financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) results and integrating both into a single integrated report. At the same time, they are also leveraging the Internet to provide more detailed results to all of their stakeholders and for improving their level of dialogue and engagement with them. Providing best practice examples from companies around the world, One Report shows how integrated reporting adds tre.
2004 national study of postsecondary faculty (NSOPF:04) methodology report technical report.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428928537
Category : Postsecondary education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428928537
Category : Postsecondary education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Report of the Dean
Author: Columbia University. Teachers College
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Pages : 66
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University of Texas Bulletin
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Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Pages : 864
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Faculty Service Report Manual
Author: Bowling Green State University. Faculty Service Report Committee
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Report of the Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty
Author: Harvard University. Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Faculty
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Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Salaries of Full-time Instructional Faculty on 9- and 10-month Contracts in Institutions on Higher Education
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Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Languages : en
Pages : 54
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