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How Professors Play the Cat Guarding the Cream

Author : Richard M. Huber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book How Professors Play the Cat Guarding the Cream written by Richard M. Huber and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents groan as college tuition rises faster than the rate of inflation. Students wonder where the distinguished professors are hiding as inexperienced graduate students take over the classroom. Business executives, straining to increase employee output, question how faculty productivity is measured. Alumni suspect the trustees of their alma mater are not exacting accountability for administrative performance. The public is concerned that "political correctness" is warping the curriculum. Taxpayers ask whether they are getting their money's worth on state-supported campuses. Richard Huber addresses these issues in a book that is both entertaining to read and striking in its insights. Tuition rises faster than the rate of inflation in part because universities enhance their academic reputations by hiring high-salaried scholars with low teaching loads. Undergraduate teaching is often terrible because professors are trained as researchers and rewarded as scholars, not teachers. Faculty output is measured by crude instruments which encourage goofing off as a masquerade for productive work. Trustees fail to enforce accountability because they are typically not familiar with the academic world and are confused by a university culture so totally different from their own corporate culture. The current brawl over the curriculum is not just an ivory tower dispute over race and ethnicity but a challenge to what kind of place America is to be. Taxpayers are not getting their money's worth because research and doctoral-granting universities, the focus of this book, are locked into outmoded personnel practices that assume all tenured professors will be productive scholars. Huber concludes with realistic reforms to improve the teaching of undergraduates and reduce the cost of higher education. And that would be a win-win prescription for the nation as well as the universities.

A Professor's Work

Author : Matthew Melko
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761812173
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book A Professor's Work written by Matthew Melko and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year-long participant-observer study of the work of a university professor at a mid-level urban university. The author explores his role as a sociology professor in research, teaching classes, attending seminars, dealing with administrators, serving on committees, and dealing with students and peers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Understanding Faculty Productivity

Author : Michael F. Middaugh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787958611
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Faculty Productivity written by Michael F. Middaugh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-05-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An invaluable resource for any college and university striving tomeet the National Cost Commission's call to make what colleges doand what it costs more 'transparent' to the public." --Jacqueline E. King, director, federal policy analysis, AmericanCouncil on Education Defining and measuring faculty productivity are among the mostcentral issues for quality and accountability in higher education.Known for assembling some of the most authoritative research onfaculty productivity--and for analyzing its impact on academic andinstitutional accountability--Michael F. Middaugh presents thiscomprehensive volume to help campus professionals build greateraccountability for students, parents, foundations, governmentalorganizations, and other concerned constituents. Middaugh firstdraws from a research study funded by TIAA-CREF's CooperativeResearch Grant Program and the Fund for Postsecondary Educationwithin the U.S. Department of Education. He then provides a newframework for analyzing faculty efficiency and emphasizes how theresults of faculty work can become the best indicators ofproductivity. He also applies the joint study findings to the taskof developing benchmarks for faculty productivity. Practitionersfrom any type of campus will find a rich array of data, valuablerecommendations, and relevant examples.

Resources in Education

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Privatizing Education

Author : Henry Levin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429977646
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Privatizing Education written by Henry Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privatizing Educationis a collection of essays written by such luminaries as Martin Carnoy, Christopher Connell, Wendy Connors, Fred Doolittle, Pearl Rock Kane, Frank Kemerer, Christopher Lauricella, Arthur Levine, Ellen Magenheim, Patrick McEwan, Lee D. Mitgang, David Myers, Gary Natriello, Caroline Persell, Mark Schneider, Janelle Scott, Geoffrey Walford, and Amy Stuart Wells who examine the efforts of some educators, reformers, investors, and political groups to move education from the public to the private sector. This is occurring through tuition tax credits, voucher initiatives, and for-profit, educational management organizations. The volume grows out of a conference that took place at Columbia University's Teachers College which launched the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education.

Princeton Alumni Weekly

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Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by and published by princeton alumni weekly. This book was released on 1992 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dental Education at the Crossroads

Author : Committee on the Future of Dental Education
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309587735
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Dental Education at the Crossroads written by Committee on the Future of Dental Education and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1995-01-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six dental schools have closed in the last decade and others are in jeopardy. Facing this uncertainty about the status of dental education and the continued tension between educators and practitioners, leaders in the profession have recognized the need for purpose and direction. This comprehensive volume--the first to cover the education, research, and patient care missions of dental schools--offers specific recommendations on oral health assessment, access to dental care, dental school curricula, financing for education, research priorities, examinations and licensing, workforce planning, and other key areas. Well organized and accessible, the book Recaps the evolution of dental practice and education. Reviews key indicators of oral health status, outlines oral health goals, and discusses implications for education. Addresses major curriculum concerns. Examines health services that dental schools provide to patients and communities. Looks at faculty and student involvement in research. Explores the relationship of dental education to the university, the dental profession, and society at large. Accreditation, the dental workforce, and other critical policy issues are highlighted as well. Of greatest interest to deans, faculty, administrators, and students at dental schools, as well as to academic health centers and universities, this book also will be informative for health policymakers, dental professionals, and dental researchers.

Universities as If Students Mattered

Author : John H. Scanzoni
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742545670
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Universities as If Students Mattered written by John H. Scanzoni and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universities As If Students Mattered is centered around the goal of coaching college students to become active, self-directed learners whose obligation to serve society is integral to their active learning. At the same time, the innovations in this book would focus the attention, energy, and considerable talents of professors, graduate students, and post-docs on some potential ways and means of addressing urgent social issues, contributing to a more thorough and comprehensive understanding of the social world.

Crisis in the Academy

Author : Christopher J. Lucas
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312176860
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Crisis in the Academy written by Christopher J. Lucas and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since student turmoil and unrest wreaked havoc on the nation's campuses three decades ago has American higher education been the subject of so much controversy and popular criticism. Countless indictments compete for the public's attention as critics explore vital issues confronting today's institutions of higher learning: curricular fragmentation, declining academic standards, the apparent erosion of liberal learning within academe, widespread neglect of undergraduate education in favour of academic research and unprecedented financial woes. Confusion over fundamental priorities and purposes, the author argues, lies at the heart of the dilemma facing end-of-the-century higher education. Thoughtful and timely, Crisis in the Academy offers a wide-ranging analysis of contemporary higher education while making an important contribution to the ongoing public debate over the future of America's beleaguered and diverse institutions of higher learning.

Democracy and the Academy

Author : Robert Weissberg
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781560727835
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and the Academy written by Robert Weissberg and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatises on democracy in higher education are hardly original undertakings in today's troubled, often acrimonious campus environments. All the "hot button" issues -- racial preferences in admissions, sexual harassment, government funding, multiculturalism, speech codes, even formulating the core curriculum -- sooner or later drag in "democracy". In fact, academic democracy has become a virtual scholarly mini-industry. The authors bring a breath of fresh perspectives to this expansive subject, a collection of analyses written by scholars seldom invited to prestigious conferences dominated by eminent presidents, trustees, provosts, and all the other educational "leaders" who normally define pubic discourse at a safe distance from the classroom. The authors eschew the customary offering of high-sounding speeches, platitudes and rhapsodizing about the democratic role of education, especially well-funded education.

Zealotry and Academic Freedom

Author : Neil Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351298828
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Zealotry and Academic Freedom written by Neil Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zealotry and Academic Freedom began with the author's personal experience with suppression of academic speech and obstacles to the pursuit of academic quality. Using his own tumultuous experience as a starting point, Hamilton explores how significant efforts to create an autonomous space for academic speech within the university over the past 125 years have been thwarted.Hamilton charges that a fundamentalist academic left in some humanities and social science faculties views the exercise of standards of academic quality and merit-based performance evaluations as tools of oppression and bigotry. Academic zealots ferret out and oppose hidden structures of so-called oppression in our "Eurocentric" culture. Any faculty member overtly supporting academic quality is thus suspected of bigotry and subject to investigations.The opening portion of the book locates similarities with the religious fundamentalism of the nineteenth century in waves of zealotry in American higher education. The first part covers student activism in the 1960s through the emergence of a radical academic left in the early 1990s. The second part examines the meaning of academic freedom and the protection of expression that should be secured. The third and final portion shows how targets of the coercive tactics of the zealots in any period of zealotry can, and have been effectively rebuked, and ultimately overcome.Neil Hamilton's book will generate controversy, particularly the chapters that inquire into the current wave of academic suppression. Hamilton warns that "history instructs that it can happen here." This candid look into the politics of higher education will be gripping reading for all those concerned with the future of education: professors, administrators, students, and parents. There has been a growing literature on this subject, but none cover the legal-political aspects of political correctness with such precision.

Theory and Best Practices in Science Communication Training

Author : Todd P. Newman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351069357
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Theory and Best Practices in Science Communication Training written by Todd P. Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume reports on the growing body of research in science communication training, and identifies best practices for communication training programs around the world. Theory and Best Practices in Science Communication Training provides a critical overview of the emerging field of by analyzing the role of communication training in supporting scientists’ communication and engagement goals, including scientists’ motivations to engage in training, the design of training programs, methods for evaluation, and frameworks to support the role of communication training in helping scientists reach their communication and engagement goals. This volume reflects the growth of the field and provides direction for developing future researcher-practitioner collaborations. With contributions from researchers and practitioners from around the world, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars and, professionals within this emerging field.

Critical Issues in Higher Education

Author : Michael Kompf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9462090467
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Critical Issues in Higher Education written by Michael Kompf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideas and papers in this volume primarily showcase the work of a group of new scholars who will lead the next generation of educational practise and inquiry. While the topics explored are critical issues, the ways in which these new scholars have chosen to address them illustrates the diversity of voice, venue and value that has led them to present their work. Education and what it means has entered a new era in which the primary focus on education for the sake of education is strained. An educational free-for-all, in the sense of a no-holds-barred fight, seems in place as competition for market share, effective branding exercises and movement towards a client-based delivery of educational services (on demand as demanded) has been fuelled and compounded by litigation, accreditation, transfer credits and matters of patents, copyrights, ownership and monopoly. The link between education and financial well-being has been co-opted as the key to personal success. Unfortunately, the degree pursuit, often called the “paper chase” has become competitive for learners seeking scholarships, awards and entry into graduate school. This transition indicates movement from becoming well educated to employability potential paralleling much institutional retooling and sustenance of enhanced reputation and fiscal viability.

Assessment Matters in Higher Education

Author : Sally Brown
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335231004
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Assessment Matters in Higher Education written by Sally Brown and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1999-02-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment really does matter in higher education. Internationally, academics - and those who support them - are seeking better ways to assess students, recognizing that diverse methods are available which may solve many of the problems associated with the evaluation of learning. Assessment Matters in Higher Education provides both theoretical perspectives and pragmatic advice on how to conduct effective assessment. It draws clearly on both relevant research and on its contributors' practical first hand experience (warts and all!). It asks, for example: how can assessment methods best become an integral part of learning? what strategies can be used to make assessment fairer, more consistent and more efficient? how effective are innovative approaches to assessment, and in what contexts do they prosper? to what extent can students become involved in their own assessment? how can we best assess learning in professional practice contexts? This is an important resource for all academics and academic managers involved in assessing their students.

The Prospect of Internet Democracy

Author : Michael Margolis
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754675143
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Prospect of Internet Democracy written by Michael Margolis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet opens up new opportunities for citizens, interest groups and political institutions, but will it revolutionize politics? The Prospect of Internet Democracy offers a rich and detailed exploration of the theoretical implications of the internet and related information and communication technologies (ICTs) for democratic theory.

The Academic Profession

Author : Martin J. Finkelstein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135645264
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book The Academic Profession written by Martin J. Finkelstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this series is to bring together the main currents in today's higher education and examine such crucial issues as the changing nature of education in the U.S., the considerable adjustment demanded of institutions, administrators, the faculty; the role of Catholic education; the remarkable growth of higher education in Latin America, contemporary educational concerns in Europe, and more. Among the many specific questions examined in individual articles re: Is it true that women are subtly changing the academic profession? How is power concentrated in academic organizations? How successful are Latin America's private universities? What is the correlation between higher education and employment in Spain? Is minority graduate education in the U.S. producing the desired results?

The Questions of Tenure

Author : Richard P. Chait
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029348
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Questions of Tenure written by Richard P. Chait and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how tenure works? In this unique book, Richard Chait and his colleagues offer the results of their research on key empirical questions. Are there circumstances under which faculty might voluntarily relinquish tenure? When might new faculty actually prefer non-tenure track positions? Does the absence of tenure mean the absence of shared governance? Why have some colleges abandoned tenure while others have adopted it? Answers to these and other questions come from careful studies of institutions that mirror the American academy: research universities and liberal arts colleges, including both highly selective and less prestigious schools. Lucid and straightforward, The Questions of Tenure offers vivid pictures of academic subcultures. Chait and his colleagues conclude that context counts so much that no single tenure system exists. Still, since no academic reward carries the cachet of tenure, few institutions will initiate significant changes without either powerful external pressures or persistent demands from new or disgruntled faculty.