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Gone for Good : Tales of University Life After the Golden Age
by Stuart Rojstaczer. A Duke professor's look at some of the unpleasant realities of the modern research university. "To get tenure and be respected at my university, I had been required to abandon my ideals, lower my standards in the classroom, and lower my own expectations of intellectual achievement. I looked at my colleagues at Duke and elsewhere, and almost all of them were doing the same. I was dismayed." $15.40 from Amazon.com
The Graying Professoriate -- a Chronicle of Higher Ed colloquy
"Is the aging of the American professoriate a problem for higher education? What, if anything, should colleges do about their aging faculties?"
The Vanishing Professor
American Federation of Teachers, Higher Education Department, 1999. "...no issue, none whatsoever, arouses more concern among our members than the erosion of full-time tenure track faculty positions and their replacement by a growing, and exploited, army of part-time and other non tenure-track faculty. This publication is intended to help affiliates who want to take positive and effective action on both fronts: to curb the loss of full-time jobs on campus and to improve conditions for part-time faculty and other contingent academic workers."