Goldenberg, Edie N. <br/><br/>
Off-Track Profs :  Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (211 pages) 
 - The MIT Press Series .
 - The MIT Press Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262255417 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>College teachers-Tenure-United States.<br/>College teachers-Employment-United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB2335.7.C76 2009