The politics of academic culture : foibles, fables, and facts / Heinz Eulau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eulau, Heinz, 1915-2004.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--United States.

College teachers.

United States.

College teaching--United States.

College teaching.

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

x, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chatham, N.J. : Chatham House Publishers, [1998]

Summary:

Eulau, professor emeritus at Stanford University, answers this question in his humorous and iconoclastic book. Well, they talk and gossip about each other. Who is up? Who is down? Who deserved that Guggenheim, who did not? In this charming and entertaining volume, Eulau draws on his many experiences as a participant observer of his academic colleagues' foibles and fumbles (with a few facts thrown in) during the past half century.

Contents:

Prologue : the origins of a career, or, Selected documents for an academic resume

My forefathers and other falsifiable stories, or, A little lie can get you further than you think

The curriculum vitae and the iron law of the academy, or, Blowing your own horn doesn't hurt anybody else

Perks, boons and boondoggles, or, When freebies get you less than meets the eye

The perplexing perversities of perjury, or, Why untruth is not always the opposite of truth

The lonely crowd

students as products and peers, or, If your colleagues only treated us the way you do

What a (department) chair and a dog have in common, or, The great experience of being kicked and kicking back

The faculty's fallacious but felicitous faculties, or, Nemesis and when not to love thy colleague as thyself

Life and representation on a company farm, or, Professor quick-win hires consultant quick-fix

The rating, ranking and baiting game, or, Don't believe all you read about yourself even if true

Funding, foundations and fellowships, or, Better get what you can while the going is good

The pleasures of conferencing and other indoor sports, or, You haven't lived until living it up in French Lick

At last a little journal all my own, or, Saying no, no, no can get you into trouble

Burps, blurbs and the joy of having a book editor, or, How to call on your friends and deceive your readers

Awards and rewards for meritocratic conduct, or, Being surprised on being honored without even trying

The fine arts of gossiping, hyping, and spinning or How the academic mind really works

Trauma, valium and a cocktail called martini, or Surviving the revolution in the trenches of the Hilton

De mortuis nil nisi bonum, or, Better write your own obituary before it is too late.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1566430615

OCLC:

37464714