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What Ever Happened to the Faculty?: Drift and Decision in Higher Education 1st Edition

by Mary Burgan (Author)
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In this provocative work, Mary Burgan surveys the deterioration of faculty influence in higher education. From campus planning, curriculum, and instructional technology to governance, pedagogy, and academic freedom, she urges far greater consideration for the perspective of the faculty.

Burgan evokes the pervasive atmosphere of charge and counter-charge on U.S. campuses, where competition trumps reason not only in athletics but also in research, faculty recruitment, and fund-raising. Relating this "winner-take-all" mentality to the overspecialization of faculty and to overreliance on non-tenure track instructors, Burgan suggests that improving life on campus depends on faculty members' successful engagement with their administrative colleagues as well as their students.

Informed by experience, fueled by conviction, and full of practical, strategic advice for the future, What Ever Happened to the Faculty? is an excellent resource for administrators and faculty who are eager to change the tone and trajectory of contemporary higher education.

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  1. ISBN-10
    0801884616
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0801884610
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Johns Hopkins University Press
  5. Publication date
    November 26, 2006
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    272 pages
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Well written... The benefit of the book is its bringing together of key themes in the current debate and providing a spirited discussion.

(Philip G. Altbach Review of Higher Education)

Burgan has a gift for telling stories and offering reasonable arguments in an engaging, compelling way.

(Gary Rhoades Thought and Action)

Full of interesting anecdotes and personal experience.

(John E. R. Staddon Academic Questions)

An important book in understanding how the traditional rights and responsibilities of university faculty have been eroded... Burgan's wide experience makes her particularly effective in developing her argument.

(Susan Gushee O'Malley Radical Teacher)

Her extensive academic and administrative background informs this insightful examination of the declining faculty influence in campus affairs and, more broadly, higher education.

(W. Bede Mitchell College and Research Libraries)

Mary Burgan has provided us with a wake-up call about the responsibilities of the professoriate and has given us practical lessons for exercising those responsibilities. We would be wise to heed her advice.

(Academe)

Mary Burgan's fresh look at campus governance provides a ray of hope for the future of the faculty's role in higher education. She draws effectively from her own university experience plus her leadership in the AAUP to show how both old and new customs in academic life can be substantive in the 21st century. This book will help higher education become a brave, new world in the best sense.

(John R. Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education)

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In this provocative work, Mary Burgan surveys the deterioration of faculty influence in higher education. From campus planning, curriculum, and instructional technology to governance, pedagogy, and academic freedom, she urges far greater consideration for the perspective of the faculty.

Informed by experience, fueled by conviction, and full of practical, strategic advice for the future, What Ever Happened to the Faculty? is an excellent resource for administrators and faculty who are eager to change the tone and trajectory of contemporary higher education.

"An important book in understanding how the traditional rights and responsibilities of university faculty have been eroded... Burgan's wide experience makes her particularly effective in developing her argument."― Radical Teacher

"A spirited discussion."― Review of Higher Education

"Burgan has a gift for telling stories and offering reasonable arguments in an engaging, compelling way."― Thought and Action

"Full of interesting anecdotes and personal experience."― Academic Questions

"[Burgan's] extensive academic and administrative background informs this insightful examination of the declining faculty influence in campus affairs and, more broadly, higher education."― College and Research Libraries

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press; 1st edition (November 26, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801884616
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801884610
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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  • Lisa
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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  • Karts Huseonica
    5.0 out of 5 stars Faculty Are Still There - Just Look Different
    Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2006
    Burgan has provided the reader a comprehensive yet easy-to-read study on the status of higher education faculty. Faculty are still here, we just look different without tenure and are still very passionate about teaching.

    Provided is a sobering evaluation of distance education, with strained attempts at being unbiased. Participation in shared governance is also discussed, but the point of involving contingent faculty is lost to the reader. Burgan accurately explains the devaluation of intellectual work as the result of increased administrative and special project assignments.

    We've given this work five stars - unusual for this type of work because of Burgan's attempts at being fair yet candid, except when it comes to the topic of the corporatization of higher education.
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