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What Ever Happened to the Faculty?

Drift and Decision in Higher Education

Mary Burgan
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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...

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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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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.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Bricks and Mortar: The American Campus
2. The Myth of the Bloviating Professor: Sages and Guides
3. Getting the "Liberal" Out of Education: The Curriculum
4. Distance Makes

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Bricks and Mortar: The American Campus
2. The Myth of the Bloviating Professor: Sages and Guides
3. Getting the "Liberal" Out of Education: The Curriculum
4. Distance Makes the Heart Grow Colder: Online Education
5. A More Perfect Union: College and University Governance
6. Superstars and Rookies of the Year: Academic Competition
7. The Case of the Firecracker Boys: Academic Science and Academic Freedom
8. The Disposable Faculty: Tenure Now
9. Staging a Comeback: Exemplary Cases
Notes
Index

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Mary Burgan

Mary Burgan is former General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors, a professor of English emerita at Indiana University–Bloomington, and author of Illness, Gender, and Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield, also published by Johns Hopkins.
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