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  • The Questions of Tenure

    by Philip G. Altbach, Roger Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister, Charles T. Clotfelter, William T. Mallon, R. Eugene Rice, Cathy A. Trower, James Honan ...
    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 ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Questions of Tenure

    by Philip G. Altbach, Roger Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister, Charles T. Clotfelter, James Honan, William T. Mallon, R. Eugene Rice, Cathy A. Trower ...
    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 ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century

    Moving to a Mission-Oriented and Learner-Centered Model

    by Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey, Elizabeth Holcombe, Ann E. Austin, Andrea G. Trice, William T. Mallon, Arleen Arnsparger, Joanna Drivalas, Malcolm Brown0, KerryAnn O'Meara1, Lauren DeCrosta2, Richard Allan Gillman3, Nancy Hensel4, David A. Salomon5, William Plater6, R. Eugene Rice7, Leslie Gonzalez8, Aimee LaPointe Terosky9 ...
    Series series The American Campus
    The institution of tenure—once a cornerstone of American colleges and universities—is rapidly eroding. Today, the majority of faculty positions are part-time or limited-term appointments, a radical change that has resulted more from circumstance than from thoughtful planning. As colleges and universities evolve to meet the changing demands of society, how might their leaders design viable ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • The New Lawyer

    How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law

    by Julie MacFarlane ...
    Series series Law and Society Series
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  • Disciplining the Poor

    Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

    by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording, Sanford F. Schram ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, ... Read more

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  • Academia Inc.

    How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

    by Jamie Brownlee ...
    Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system.Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two ... Read more

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  • The New Public Service

    Serving, Not Steering

    by Janet V. Denhardt, Robert B. Denhardt ...
    The New Public Service: Serving, not Steering provides a framework for the many voices calling for the reaffirmation of democratic values, citizenship, and service in the public interest. It is organized around a set of seven core principles: (1) serve citizens, not customers; (2) seek the public interest; (3) value citizenship and public service above entrepreneurship; (4) think strategically, ... Read more

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  • Philanthropy in Democratic Societies

    History, Institutions, Values

    Edited by Rob Reich, Chiara Cordelli, Lucy Bernholz ...
    Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as the contributors to this book show, philanthropy is also an exercise of power. And like all forms of power, especially in a democratic society, it ... Read more

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  • The Faculty Lounges

    And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For

    by Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching. ... Read more

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  • A Perfect Mess

    The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

    by David F. Labaree ...
    A history of higher education in America and an investigation into the secrets of its success: " A Perfect Mess should become a classic." — Times Higher EducationRead about America's colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree ... Read more

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  • Democratic Professionalism

    Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice

    by Albert W. Dzur ...
    Bringing expert knowledge to bear in an open and deliberative way to help solve pressing social problems is a major concern today, when technocratic and bureaucratic decision making often occurs with little or no input from the general public. Albert Dzur proposes an approach he calls “democratic professionalism” to build bridges between specialists in domains like law, medicine, and journalism ... Read more

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