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How Professors Play the Cat Guarding the Cream
Why We're Paying More and Getting Less in Higher Education
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1993
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This book is a "must read" for every parent who has ever signed a check for tuition, every student who has ever wondered where all the distinguished professors are hiding, and everyone else who has ever questioned what faculty do with themselves all day.
In this lucid and engaging account, Richard Huber identifies faculty productivity as the major reason why college tuition at America's most prestigious institutions rose at more than twice the rate of inflation throughout the 1980s. He argues that at the heart of the productivity issue lies an organization with two competing aims: research and teaching. The resulting organizational culture majors in genteel delusion.
Huber raises taboo subjects such as increased and differential faculty teaching loads, putting himself at the forefront of the new movement for increased accountability in our colleges. And he does so with humor, grace and empathy as one who has been inside the university. This is controversy with an impish grin!
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Copyright year
1993
ISBN-Print
978-0-913969-43-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-7574-7
Publisher
University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
202
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CONTENTS No access
INTRODUCTION No access Pages 1 - 4
1. CONFLICT/CORRESPONDENCE OF INTEREST No access Pages 5 - 8
2. MISSION, TRUSTEES, AND THE PRESIDENT No access Pages 9 - 16
3. THE EXERCISE OF AUTHORITY No access Pages 17 - 26
4. THE FACULTY No access Pages 27 - 38
5. CURRICULUM–"A BUZZING CONFUSION OF COMPLAINTS" No access Pages 39 - 56
6. CURRICULUM–MULTICULTURALISM No access Pages 57 - 78
7. STUDENTS No access Pages 79 - 88
8. TUITION–STICKER PRICE No access Pages 89 - 94
9. TUITION–COSTS AND BENEFITS No access Pages 95 - 102
10. TUITION–WHERE IT GOES No access Pages 103 - 110
11. EVALUATION AND SOME FOLLIES No access Pages 111 - 120
12. DOABLES–IMPROVE QUALITY No access Pages 121 - 132
13. DOABLES–CUT COSTS No access Pages 133 - 144
CONCLUSION No access Pages 145 - 146
APPENDIX A–THE IRONIES OF THE UNIVERSITY No access Pages 147 - 150
APPENDIX B–CARNEGIE CLASSIFICATIONS No access Pages 151 - 152
APPENDIX C–RANKINGS No access Pages 153 - 166
PERSONAL & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access Pages 167 - 170
