The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities

ISBN-13: 9780823228591 Publisher: Fordham University Press Publication date: 04/30/2008 Edition description: 3 Pages: 172 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) "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. In 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. Taking 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 shou