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The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, with a New Introduction

The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, with a New Introduction

Donoghue, Frank

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ISBN10: 0823228606
ISBN13: 9780823228607
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Apr 30 2008
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.07 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

What makes the modern university different from any other corporation? asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. There is more and more reason to think: less and less, he answered.

In this provocative book, Frank Donoghue shows how this growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor.

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. Why? What will universities look like without professors? Who will teach? Why should it matter?

The fate of the professor, Donoghue shows, has always been tied to that of the liberal arts --with the

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