Professors and Their Politics tackles the assumption that universities are ivory towers of radicalism with the potential to corrupt conservative youth. Neil Gross and Solon Simmons gather the work of leading sociologists, historians, and other researchers interested in the relationship between politics and higher education to present evidence to ......
A faculty member publishes an article without offering coauthorship to a graduate assistant who has made a substantial conceptual or methodological contribution to the article. A faculty member does not permit graduate students to express viewpoints different from her own. A graduate student close to finishing his dissertation cannot reach his ......
As the chief academic officer, the provost plays the central role in the contemporary university or college. He or she leads the faculty and serves as their key representative to the administration while simultaneously acting as the administrations spokesperson to the academic faculty. How has this essential leadership position evolved over the ......
As the chief academic officer, the provost plays the central role in the contemporary university or college. He or she leads the faculty and serves as their key representative to the administration while simultaneously acting as the administrations spokesperson to the academic faculty. How has this essential leadership position evolved over the ......
Is it Right for Me and What Can I Do with My Degree?
Offers a comprehensive strategy aimed at helping undergraduates use self-exploration tools to decide if psychology is the right major for them. This title offers an explanation of psychology and its subfields and an examination of the importance of diversity and multiculturalism.
Much of the twentieth century saw broad political support for public funding of American higher education. Liberals supported public investment because it encouraged social equity, conservatives because it promoted economic development. Recently, however, the politics of higher education have become more contentious. Conservatives advocate deep ......
Re-envisioning Racial Identities, Interests, and Inequities
Racial Subjection Theory in Higher Education contributes to the "third wave" of college student development theory by drawing upon cultural studies, critical and postmodern theory, and Critical Race Theory. The theory offers a new approach for analyzing racial identities, interests, and inequities in higher education contexts.
"Reclaiming the Ivory Tower" is an organizing handbook for contingent faculty-the thousands of non-tenure track college teachers who love their work but hate their jobs. Full of concrete suggestions for action, based on extensive interviews with organizers.
Reclaiming the Ivory Tower examines the situation of adjunct professors in U.S. higher education today, describes the process of organizing them to improve their conditions of work, and puts forward an agenda around which adjunct labor can mobilize and transform the universities. In the last twenty years, higher education in the United States has ......
