Ben Ginsberg is a Professor at John's Hopkins whose book The Fall of the Faculty (published in 2011 by OUP) details the corporatization of the American University system and the subsequent disenfranchisement of professional scholars. In the not to distant past the faculty of a College was the College. That era is over. Now professors are paid employees that provide students with a feel good service that gives the "right image" that administrators want. No longer is education about teaching; it has become an overpriced overly bureaucratic playground that manufactures credentials and perpetuates a culture of administration for administration. He shows how skyrocketing costs, fewer tenure positions, and even the fiscal irresponsibility of current paradigms on education can trace their roots to the growth of a paradisaical administrative class that is threatening to consume the whole system. This is a must read for anyone interested in education. This book can be found at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Ben Ginsberg "The Fall of the Faculty: Governing Universities in the 21st Century"
Ben Ginsberg is a Professor at John's Hopkins whose book The Fall of the Faculty (published in 2011 by OUP) details the corporatization of the American University system and the subsequent disenfranchisement of professional scholars. In the not to distant past the faculty of a College was the College. That era is over. Now professors are paid employees that provide students with a feel good service that gives the "right image" that administrators want. No longer is education about teaching; it has become an overpriced overly bureaucratic playground that manufactures credentials and perpetuates a culture of administration for administration. He shows how skyrocketing costs, fewer tenure positions, and even the fiscal irresponsibility of current paradigms on education can trace their roots to the growth of a paradisaical administrative class that is threatening to consume the whole system. This is a must read for anyone interested in education. This book can be found at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.