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What ever happened to the faculty? [electronic resource] : drift and decision in higher education / Mary Burgan.

By: Burgan, Mary.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Description: xxviii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.Other title: Whatever happened to the faculty?.Subject(s): Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty | Universities and colleges -- United States -- AdministrationGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 378.1/94 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Bricks and mortar : the American campus -- The myth of the bloviating professor : sages and guides -- Getting the "liberal" out of education : the curriculum -- Absence makes the heart grow colder : online education -- A more perfect union : college and university governance -- Rookies of the year and superstars : academic competition -- The case of the firecracker boys : academic science and academic freedom -- The disposable faculty : tenure now -- Staging a comeback : exemplary cases.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bricks and mortar : the American campus -- The myth of the bloviating professor : sages and guides -- Getting the "liberal" out of education : the curriculum -- Absence makes the heart grow colder : online education -- A more perfect union : college and university governance -- Rookies of the year and superstars : academic competition -- The case of the firecracker boys : academic science and academic freedom -- The disposable faculty : tenure now -- Staging a comeback : exemplary cases.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.