{"product_id":"the-last-professors-frank-donoghue-9780823228607","title":"The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, with a New Introduction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?\" asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. \"There is more and more reason to think: less and less,\" he answered. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this provocative book, Frank Donoghue shows how this growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking a clear-eyed look at American higher education over the last twenty years, Donoghue outlines a web of forces--social, political, and institutional--dismantling the professoriate. Today, fewer than 30 percent of college and university teachers are tenured or on tenure tracks, and signs point to a future where professors will disappear. Why? What will universities look like without professors? Who will teach? Why should it matter? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fate of the professor, Donoghue shows, has always been tied to that of the liberal arts --with the\u003cbr\u003ehumanities at its core. The rise to prominence of the American university has been defined by the strength of the humanities and by the central role of the autonomous, tenured professor who can be both scholar and teacher. Yet in today's market-driven, rank- and ratings-obsessed world of higher education, corporate logic prevails: faculties are to be managed for optimal efficiency, productivity, and competitive advantage; casual armies of adjuncts and graduate students now fill the demand for teachers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBypassing the distractions of the culture wars and other \"crises,\" Donoghue sheds light on the structural changes in higher education--the rise of community colleges and for-profit universities, the frenzied pursuit of prestige everywhere, the brutally competitive realities facing new Ph.D.s --that threaten the survival of professors as we've known them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are no quick fixes in The Last Professors; rather, Donoghue offers his fellow teachers and scholars\u003cbr\u003ean essential field guide to making their way in a world that no longer has room for their dreams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Donoghue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823228606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823228607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 6.07w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2008 pg. 90","brand":"Frank Donoghue","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48174890483967,"sku":"9780823228607","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e59d492f-da09-4a3a-86e8-e4f1ffd54622.jpg?v=1771331195","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-last-professors-frank-donoghue-9780823228607","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}