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The Fall of the Faculty (Paperback)
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The Fall of the Faculty (Paperback)
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Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their
faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the
core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg
warns in this eye-opening, controversial book,
"deanlets"-administrators and staffers often without serious
academic backgrounds or experience-are setting the educational
agenda. The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant
administrative blight that now plagues the nation's universities.
In the past decade, universities have added layers of
administrators and staffers to their payrolls every year even while
laying off full-time faculty in increasing numbers-ostensibly
because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly
minted-and non-academic-administrators are career managers who
downplay the importance of teaching and research, as evidenced by
their tireless advocacy for a banal "life skills" curriculum.
Consequently, students are denied a more enriching educational
experience-one defined by intellectual rigor. Ginsberg also reveals
how the legitimate grievances of minority groups and liberal
activists, which were traditionally championed by faculty members,
have, in the hands of administrators, been reduced to chess pieces
in a game of power politics. By embracing initiatives such as
affirmative action, the administration gained favor with these
groups and legitimized a thinly cloaked gambit to bolster their
power over the faculty. As troubling as this trend has become,
there are ways to reverse it. The Fall of the Faculty outlines how
we can revamp the system so that real educators can regain their
voice in curriculum policy.
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