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  • Organizing Professionals

    Academic Employees Negotiating a New Academy

    de Gary Rhoades ...
    Amidst unprecedented levels of union organizing in higher education, Gary Rhoades combines the perspectives of a scholar and labor movement activist and leader to provide a comprehensive analysis of organizing campaigns and collective bargaining agreements for faculty (contingent and tenure-track), graduate students, and postdoc employees. Academic employees are organizing and negotiating for ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education

    A Labor History

    de Eric Fure-Slocum, Claire Goldstene, Gary Rhoades, Elizabeth Hohl, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Joe Berry, Helena Worthen, Gwendolyn Alker, Sue Doe0, Steven Shulman1, Aimee Loiselle2, Claire Raymond3, Diane Angell4, Miguel Juarez5, Erin Hatton6, Maria C Maisto7, Anne Wiegard8, William A Herbert9, Joseph van der Naald0, Jeff Schuhrke1, Anne McLeer2, Trevor Griffey3, Steven Parfitt4, Naomi R Williams5, Jiyoon Park6 ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiencesIn the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in the gig economy: lack of job security and health care, professional disrespect, and poverty wages that require them to juggle multiple jobs.This ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Academic Capitalism and the New Economy

    Markets, State, and Higher Education

    de Sheila Slaughter, Gary Rhoades ...
    As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy, they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in profit-oriented activities. In Academic Capitalism and the New Economy, higher education scholars Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades detail the aggressive engagement of U.S. higher education institutions in the knowledge ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

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  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    de Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl, Kevin Walby ...
    From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Insider's Guide to Working with Universities

    Practical Insights for Board Members, Businesspeople, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Alumni, Parents, and Administrators

    de Deborah Y. Clarke, James W. Dean Jr. ...
    Colleges and universities stand to benefit greatly when businesspeople engage with them, whether through governing boards, alumni associations, consulting arrangements, philanthropy, or other channels. But many businesspeople are frustrated by the way institutions of higher education work — or rather, how they don’t work. Why do decisions in universities take so long and involve so many people? ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    de Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Academia, Inc.

    How Corporatization Is Transforming Canadian Universities

    de Jamie Brownlee ...
    Canadian universities are being slowly but inexorably corporatized. Casualizing academic labour, remaking students into consumers of education, implementing corporate management models and commercializing academic research all point to the ascendance of business interests and values in Canada’s higher education system.Academia, Inc. examines the tensions that result from the merging of two ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Austerity Blues

    Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education

    de Michael Fabricant, Stephen Brier ...
    A generation of budget cutting has eviscerated the very idea of public higher education in America.Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working men and women. Since the 1980s, however, government austerity policies and politics have severely reduced public investment in higher education, ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Understanding Canadian Public Administration

    An Introduction to Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition

    de Gregory J. Inwood ...
    Understanding Canadian Public Administration introduces students to both the theory and the practice of public administration in Canada. It surveys the basic elements of the field in a historical context, but with close attention to contemporary issues and developments, to emphasize the real, day-to-day impacts of public administration.The text provides an overview of the field in the context of ... Leer más

    $86.99 USD

  • The Faculty Lounges

    And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For

    de Naomi Schaefer Riley ...
    Veteran journalist Naomi Shaefer Riley contends that tenure—the jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with a university position—is at the heart of so many problems with higher education today. She explores how tenure—with the job security, mediocre salaries, and low levels of accountability it entails—may be attracting the least innovative and interesting members of our society into teaching. ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Art and Politics of Academic Governance

    Relations among Boards, Presidents, and Faculty

    de Colleen O'Brien Sathre, Kenneth P. Mortimer ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Using case studies and relevant literature, this book illustrates the challenges to legitimate, Shared-governance domains when the routine of the academy is forced to deal with big issues, often brought on by external forces. Mortimer and Sathre have gone beyond a discussion of faculty/administrative behavior by focusing on what happens when the legitimate governance claims of faculty, trustees, ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century

    Social, Political, and Economic Challenges

    Edición de Michael N. Bastedo, Philip G. Altbach, Patricia J. Gumport ...
    Now in its fifth edition! An indispensable reference for anyone concerned with the future of American colleges and universities.Whether it is advances in information technology, organized social movements, or racial inequality and social class stratification, higher education serves as a lens for examining significant issues within American society. First published in 1998, American Higher ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD