The Last Professors

The Last Professors
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9780823228591
ISBN-13 : 0823228592
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Book Synopsis The Last Professors by : Frank Donoghue

Download or read book The Last Professors written by Frank Donoghue and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a clear-eyed look at American higher education over the last twenty years, Donoghue outlines a web of forces--social, political, and institutional--dismantling the professoriate. Today, fewer than 30 percent of college and university teachers are tenured or on tenure tracks, and signs point to a future where professors will disappear. --from publisher description.


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