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Scaling the Ivory Tower - Merit and Its Limits in Academic Careers (Hardcover)
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Scaling the Ivory Tower - Merit and Its Limits in Academic Careers (Hardcover)
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Following in the tradition of Thorstein Veblen's Higher Learning in
America, Lionel S. Lewis has amassed solid evidence to support his
conclusions about what leads to success in Scaling the Ivory Tower.
As background to his consideration of academic freedom, sexism,
merit, tenure, and other such highly charged subjects, Lewis
examines the attitudes of those in universities toward academic
qualification. The modern rule of thumb has become publish or
perish. According to Lewis, however, research and publication may
not be such prime considerations after all. Two thought-provoking
chapters are devoted to an examination of letters of recommendation
as important factors in hiring and promoting in the academic world.
Lewis also scrutinizes academic freedom cases from the archives of
the American Association of University Professors. Other intriguing
issues examined by Lewis are: how spouses and significant others
factor into whether or not a professor gets a promotion; a typical
day in the life, both academic and personal, of a professor; how
the celebrity syndrome has spread to campus; discrimination against
women; and bureaucracy as a contributing factor to campus unrest.
In the new introduction, Lewis affirms that the most apparent
changes in higher education since Scaling the Ivory Tower was
initially published have actually made the campus less
meritocratic, and less a place where quality academic work is
recognized and rewarded. One contributing factor is the necessity
to consider age, gender, ethnicity, and race in personnel
decisions. Because many on campus are convinced that academic life
can only be improved when the demographics of faculty reflect those
in the larger society, departments are routinely expected to
explain why they did not fill an opening with someone from an
underrepresented group. While showing some irreverence toward
academia, Scaling the Ivory Tower should also provoke sober
consideration of where our colleges and universities are headed.
This is a significant volume for university administrators,
academics, and graduate students.
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