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Author : Herbert A. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967981710
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Scaling the Ivory Tower written by Herbert A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lionel S. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608040318
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Scaling the Ivory Tower written by Lionel S. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lionel S. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351307029
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Scaling the Ivory Tower written by Lionel S. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the tradition of Thorstein Veblen's Higher Learning in America, Lionel S. Lewis has amassed solid evidence to support his conclusions about what leads to success in Scaling the Ivory Tower. As background to his consideration of academic freedom, sexism, merit, tenure, and other such highly charged subjects, Lewis examines the attitudes of those in universities toward academic qualification. The modern rule of thumb has become publish or perish. According to Lewis, however, research and publication may not be such prime considerations after all. Two thought-provoking chapters are devoted to an examination of letters of recommendation as important factors in hiring and promoting in the academic world. Lewis also scrutinizes academic freedom cases from the archives of the American Association of University Professors. Other intriguing issues examined by Lewis are: how spouses and significant others factor into whether or not a professor gets a promotion; a typical day in the life, both academic and personal, of a professor; how the celebrity syndrome has spread to campus; discrimination against women; and bureaucracy as a contributing factor to campus unrest. In the new introduction, Lewis affirms that the most apparent changes in higher education since Scaling the Ivory Tower was initially published have actually made the campus less meritocratic, and less a place where quality academic work is recognized and rewarded. One contributing factor is the necessity to consider age, gender, ethnicity, and race in personnel decisions. Because many on campus are convinced that academic life can only be improved when the demographics of faculty reflect those in the larger society, departments are routinely expected to explain why they did not fill an opening with someone from an underrepresented group. While showing some irreverence toward academia, Scaling the Ivory Tower should also provoke sober consideration of where our colleges and universities are headed. This is a significant volume for university administrators, academics, and graduate students.
Author : Lionel S. Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781560009580
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Scaling the Ivory Tower written by Lionel S. Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the tradition of Thorstein Veblen's Higher Learning in America, Lionel S. Lewis has amassed solid evidence to support his conclusions about what leads to success in Scaling the Ivory Tower. As background to his consideration of academic freedom, sexism, merit, tenure, and other such highly charged subjects, Lewis examines the attitudes of those in universities toward academic qualification. The modern rule of thumb has become publish or perish. According to Lewis, however, research and publication may not be such prime considerations after all. Two thought-provoking chapters are devoted to an examination of letters of recommendation as important factors in hiring and promoting in the academic world. Lewis also scrutinizes academic freedom cases from the archives of the American Association of University Professors. Other intriguing issues examined by Lewis are: how spouses and significant others factor into whether or not a professor gets a promotion; a typical day in the life, both academic and personal, of a professor; how the celebrity syndrome has spread to campus; discrimination against women; and bureaucracy as a contributing factor to campus unrest. In the new introduction, Lewis affirms that the most apparent changes in higher education since Scaling the Ivory Tower was initially published have actually made the campus less meritocratic, and less a place where quality academic work is recognized and rewarded. One contributing factor is the necessity to consider age, gender, ethnicity, and race in personnel decisions. Because many on campus are convinced that academic life can only be improved when the demographics of faculty reflect those in the larger society, departments are routinely expected to explain why they did not fill an opening with someone from an underrepresented group. While showing some irreverence toward academia, Scaling the Ivory Tower should also provoke sober consideration of where our colleges and universities are headed. This is a significant volume for university administrators, academics, and graduate students.
Author : Dianne J. Cyr
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0275956733
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Scaling the Ivory Tower written by Dianne J. Cyr and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the detailed life stories of nine women academics in business faculties throughout North America. Three are in their early careers, three are facing tenure, and three are recognized leaders in their field. Each of the authors presents her story as a set of choices and reveals the alternatives and the decision making process. Many choices are a trade-off between different roles; teacher versus researcher, wife/mother versus professional, researcher versus administrator. Insights are developed and shared with the reader. The women academics in this book represent a wide variety of disciplines, ages, ethnicity, and family makeup. Their paths and insights are different, but their choices are similar, and recurring themes emerge. These are explored by the editors as they tie the stories together and interpret the individual tales. Through reading this book, graduate students and professors alike can get a glimpse into other's struggles and triumphs. They should emerge with specific strategies and a clear idea of the choices that lie ahead. Laypeople who always wondered what academics did with all their free time will get a glimpse into the diversity of responsibilities and opportunities that this profession entails.
Author : Mary Beth Averill
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781794609303
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Scaling the Ivory Tower written by Mary Beth Averill and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We wrote this book because so many academics find it daunting to navigate the search for an academic position. The workbook is designed with 58 worksheets and checklists dealing with everything from the imposter syndrome to crafting a cover letter that tells your unique story. Checklists are available for items to consider when crafting cover letters, interviews (whether on the telephone, by video or in person), and negotiating an offer. It was created to help newly minted academics, as well as those who may want to move laterally, to handle the pragmatic aspects of the job search. The information and necessary skills for this process are generally not taught in graduate school.The book is organized in seven essential sections: Part 1 introduces the academic job search cycle and outlines the various categories for hires. Part 2 helps you stay on top of your academic job search, from where to look to publishing plans.Part 3 give you various ways to organize and track your job search applications. Part 4 outlines the ten important pieces of your academic job search portfolio, and offers examples or templates for those elements. Part 5 presents the ins and outs of your academic job search interview, including handling conference, video and on site visits. Part 6 looks at additional considerations including some statistics on the academic job market and alternatives to the professoriate. Part 7 concludes by recapping some of the most important items to consider as you go through a month by month academic job search process.This book was developed by two coaches who have a combined work experience of over 40 years with academic clients who are unfamiliar with the nuts and bolts of seeking an academic position. The workbook offers real life up-to-date examples of the job search process from the applicant's point of view and is designed to reduce anxiety through concrete exercises and demystify the academic job search process.
Author : Jeremy Shearmur
Publisher : Institute for Humane Studies, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780896173026
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Scaling the Ivory Tower written by Jeremy Shearmur and published by Institute for Humane Studies, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pamphlet offers practical advice to students who desire to pursue an academic career centered around a commitment to the ideals of classical liberalism. The author perceives a conflict between these ideals and the real demands of the academic environment. Regarding this conflict as a challenge which academics must address, he offers specific suggestions to undergraduate students on defining career goals and designing a course of graduate study and professional development which will achieve these goals. Aspects of academic career development discussed include choosing and applying to graduate school, preparing for graduate exams, networking with other academics, selecting and working with a mentor, choosing a dissertation topic, membership in professional associations, conference attendance, scholarly publication, developing the curriculum vita, the job interview process, the tenure process, and collegiality. Appendices list professional associations and job listings and offer advice on putting together an academic panel. (Contains 28 references.) (PRW)
Author : Charles N. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Scaling the Ivory Tower written by Charles N. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Higham
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9780312155759
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (557 download)
Download or read book The Complete Academic written by Robin Higham and published by Saint Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott M. Gelber
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421438178
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Grading the College written by Scott M. Gelber and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of evaluation in American higher education. In Grading the College, Scott M. Gelber offers a comprehensive history of evaluating teaching and learning in higher education. He complicates the conventional narrative that portrays evaluation as a newfangled assault on the integrity of higher education while acknowledging that there are many compelling reasons to oppose those practices. The evaluation of teaching and learning, Gelber argues, presented genuine dilemmas that have attracted the attention of faculty members and academic leaders since the 1920s. Especially during the peak era of faculty authority that followed the end of the Second World War, significant numbers of professors and administrators believed that evaluation might improve institutional performance, reduce the bias inherent in traditional methods of supervision, strengthen communication with laypersons, and encourage a more deliberate focus on the distinctive goals of college. Gelber reveals the extent to which professors and academic interest groups participated in the development of our most common evaluation instruments, including student course questionnaires, achievement tests, surveys, rubrics, rankings, and accreditation self-studies. Although these efforts may seem distant from the present era of shortsighted scrutiny and ill-conceived comparisons, Gelber demonstrates that the evaluation of college teaching and learning has long consisted of a set of intellectually sophisticated questions that have engaged, and could continue to engage, faculty members and their advocates. By providing a deeper understanding of how evaluation operated before the dawn of high-stakes accountability, Grading the College seeks to promote productive conversations about current attempts to define and measure the purposes of American higher education.
Author : Lucy Ellis
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373130635
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (731 download)
Download or read book Innocent in the Ivory Tower written by Lucy Ellis and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nanny Maisy Edmonds is furious when a stranger tries to take her orphaned little charge-- stealing a shockingly explicit kiss from her into the bargain! Can infamous tycoon Alexei Ranaevsky really be the child's godfather? Installed in Alexei's remote Italian villa, Maisy is intent on protecting little Kostya-- and nothing else ... Alexei's childhood-turned-nightmare means he allows himself no emotional attachments. But Maisy's beguiling sweetness has the uncompromising Russian determined to seduce her down from her inexperienced pedestal."--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Gillian Holmes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780920966556
Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000 written by Gillian Holmes and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who's Who of Canadian Women is a guide to the most powerfuland innovative women in Canada. Celebrating the talents and achievement of over 3,700 women, Who's Who of Canadian Women includes women from all over Canada, in all fields, including agriculture, academia, law, business, politics, journalism, religion, sports and entertainment. Each biography includes such information as personal data, education, career history, current employment, affiliations, interests and honours. A special comment section reveals personal thoughts, goals, and achievements of the profiled individual. Entries are indexed by employment of affilitation for easy reference. Published every two years, Who's Who of Canadian Women selects its biographees on merit alone. This collection is an essential resource for all those interested in the achievements of Canadian women.
Author : Michael D. Smith
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262048558
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Abundant University written by Michael D. Smith and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why our current system of higher education is financially and morally unsustainable and how to address the crisis with the creative implementation of digital technologies. For too long, our system of higher education has been defined by scarcity: scarcity in enrollment, scarcity in instruction, and scarcity in credentials. In addition to failing students professionally, this system has exacerbated social injustice and socioeconomic stratification across the globe. In The Abundant University, Michael D. Smith argues that the only way to create a financially and morally sustainable higher education system is by embracing digital technologies for enrolling, instructing, and credentialing students—the same technologies that we have seen create abundance in access to resources in industry after industry. The Abundant University explains how we got our current system, why it’s such an expensive, inefficient mess, and how a system based on exclusivity cannot foster inclusivity. Smith challenges the resistance to digital technologies that we have already seen among numerous institutions, citing the examples of faculty resistance toward digital learning platforms. While acknowledging the understandable self-preservation instinct of our current system of residential education, Smith makes a case for how technology can engender greater educational opportunity and create changes that will benefit students, employers, and society as a whole.
Author : Horst Hutter
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739113592
Total Pages : 1978 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Shaping the Future written by Horst Hutter and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaping the Future maps out the ascetic practices of a Neitzschean way of life. Hutter argues that Nietzsche's doctrines are attempts and 'temptations' that aim to provoke his free-spirited readers into changing themselves by putting philosophy into practice in their lives.
Author : John B. Miner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195122145
Total Pages : 914 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Organizational Behavior written by John B. Miner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with a treatment of the role of science and the nature of theory and research. A discussion of the early origins and history of organizational behavior follows. This is the most comprehensive coverage of how organizational behavior emerged and grew. It presents and evaluates the first generation theorists, whose work began during the first 20 years. The subject matter covered is motivation, leadership, and organizational decision making. The institutional culture of organizational behavior is discussed and a vision for the future of the field is stated. Here the early history and the evidence from the theories are brought together in an effort to assess the identity of organizational behavior and where it might be headed.
Author : Alejandra Roncallo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135140391
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Space in the Americas written by Alejandra Roncallo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a novel and cutting-edge interpretation of the evolving political economy of the Americas. Through a combination of qualitative research and theory, it considers the reconstruction of American-led hegemony in the Americas since the 1982 debt crisis and presents an examination of the new Pax Americana. Drawing on the Gramscian concept of hegemony as understood by Robert Cox and Henri Lefebvre, this book argues that since the 1982 debt crisis there has been a reconstruction of American-led hegemony under the signature of neo-liberalism and that it has taken place in the last four ten-year developmental planning stages, ‘market reforms’ in the 1980s, ‘good governance’ in the 1990s, ‘poverty reduction’ in the new millennium and, currently, the ‘disembedding of security’. Each "evolutionary stage" was constructed to secure the continuing motion of capitalist accumulation on a world scale. Moving from the global to the local scale, the book includes two detailed case studies on mining extraction in Bolivia to show how subaltern groups actually experienced and negotiated the transition from the old to the new Pax Americanas at the level of everyday life and what conflicts arose. The book ends with a chapter on President Evo Morales and the re-foundation of Bolivia as an indigenous nation. The Political Economy of Space in the Americas will be of interest to students and scholars of political economy and Latin American politics.
