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Off-Track Profs : Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (211 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262255417
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Off-Track ProfsLOC classification:
  • LB2335.7.C76 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Do We Know Who Teaches Our Students? -- 2 Setting the Stage -- 3 How Are Academic Hiring Decisions Made? -- 4 From Monastery to Market -- 5 The Market for Non-Tenure-TrackInstruction -- 6 The Invasion of the Business Models -- 7 Faculty Unionization -- 8 Do Hiring Practices Matter? -- 9 From Dilemmas to Action -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: An investigation of non-tenure-track faculty at ten elite research universities and the implications for undergraduate education, institutional governance, and American preeminence in higher education.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Do We Know Who Teaches Our Students? -- 2 Setting the Stage -- 3 How Are Academic Hiring Decisions Made? -- 4 From Monastery to Market -- 5 The Market for Non-Tenure-TrackInstruction -- 6 The Invasion of the Business Models -- 7 Faculty Unionization -- 8 Do Hiring Practices Matter? -- 9 From Dilemmas to Action -- Notes -- References -- Index.

An investigation of non-tenure-track faculty at ten elite research universities and the implications for undergraduate education, institutional governance, and American preeminence in higher education.

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