The Professoriate Today: Languishing in Dante's Purgatory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781475836486)

The changing role and expectations of higher education have reached a crisis point. The heart of the problem is an isolation of the professoriate. An emphasis on obscure research and lack of accountability is undermining the academy. Creating a dissertation is usually an exhausting and frustrating task. New professors are not prepared for what is about to happen to them. Students are being shortchanged by professors who fail to facilitate learning. The effort to find a long-term academic appointment can be just as bad. This book tells the story of a period of suffering for new professors quite comparable to the description of purgatory in Dante's Divine Comedy. This book documents the story.

Author: John Jack Hampton
ISBN-10: 1475836481
ISBN-13: 9781475836486
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2017
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2018