Inside Academia

Professors, Politics, and Policies

Steven M Cahn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0150-9 (ISBN)

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Drawing on his experience as a teacher, advisor, administrator, and philosopher, Steven M. Cahn diagnoses problems plaguing America's universities and offers his prescriptions for improvement. Inside Academia uses real cases to illustrate how faculty members, deans, and provosts often do not serve the best interests of schools or students.

Drawing on decades of experience as a renowned teacher, advisor, administrator, and philosopher, Steven M. Cahn diagnoses problems plaguing America’s universities and offers his prescriptions for improvement. He explores numerous aspects of academic life, including the education of graduate students, the quality of teaching, the design of liberal arts curricula, and the procedures for appointing faculty and considering them for tenure.

Inside Academia uses real cases to illustrate how faculty members, deans, and provosts often do not serve the best interests of schools or students. Yet the book also highlights efforts of those who have committed themselves and their institutions to the pursuit of academic excellence.

STEVEN M. CAHN is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York, where he served for nearly a decade as provost and vice president for academic affairs, then as acting president. He is the author or editor of sixty books, including Religion Within Reason and Teaching Philosophy: A Guide.

Contents

Preface

1.         How Professors View Academia

2.         Graduate School

3.         Turning Point

4.         How Teachers Succeed

5.         Teaching Graduate Students to Teach

6.         Changing Departmental Culture

7.         The Administration

8.         Choosing Administrators

9.         Curricular Structure

10.       The Case for Liberal Education

11.       Requirements

12.       Distribution Requirements

13.       A Core Curriculum

14.       Departments

15.       Appointments

16.       Tenure and Academic Freedom

17.       A Tenure Case

18.       Autonomy

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.12.2018
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	141 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-9788-0150-5 / 1978801505
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-0150-9 / 9781978801509
Zustand	Neuware