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Off-track profs : nontenured teachers in higher education / John G. Cross and Edie N. Goldenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cross, John G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teachers--Tenure--United States.
- College teachers.
- College teachers--Employment--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Do we know who teaches our students?
- Setting the stage : the changing complexion of postsecondary instruction
- How are academic hiring decisions made?
- From monastery to market
- The market for non-tenure-track instruction
- The invasion of business models
- Faculty unionization : the limits of an industrial model
- Do hiring practices matter?
- From dilemmas to action.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-24029-3
- 0-262-25541-3
- 9786612240294
- OCLC:
- 431239056
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