Under new management : universities, administrative labor, and the professional turn / Randy Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Randy, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--United States--Faculty.

Universities and colleges.

Universities and colleges--United States--Administration.

College personnel management--United States.

College personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Faculty members who care about the institutions of higher education where they work are often at odds with university management. In his forceful book, Under New Management, Randy Martin takes a novel, evenhanded approach to this gulf between professors, who feel a loss of autonomy, and administrators.Martin imagines a political future for academic labor based on a critical understanding of the administrative work that faculty already undertake. He considers the differences between self-rule and specialized expertise and provides a case study of a New York City public sch

Contents:

Introduction: the ends of education

Getting there

What's a student to think?

W(h)ither academic freedom? : revaluing faculty work

The work of administration

Conditions of interdisciplinarity

Toward organizational hybridity

Conclusion: (out) from under new management?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613159588

9781283159586

1283159589

9781439906972

1439906971

OCLC:

739713732