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The adjunct underclass : how America's colleges betrayed their faculty, their students, and their mission / Herb Childress.
LIBRA LB2844.1.P3 C55 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Childress, Herb, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- College teachers, Part-time--United States.
- College teachers, Part-time.
- Universities and colleges--United States--Faculty.
- Universities and colleges.
- United States.
- Education, Higher--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Universities and colleges--Faculty.
- Physical Description:
- x, 213 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- Preface: This is how you kill a profession
- What the brochures don't tell you
- The permanent and the contingent
- Bronze, silver, gold, or platinum
- Building the contingent workforce
- If we don't pay teachers, why is my tuition so high?
- The comforts of those inside the castle
- Hapless bystanders
- What to do?
- Aftermath: life in exile.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226496665
- 022649666X
- 9780226496832
- 022649683X
- OCLC:
- 1051690855
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