作者:
Herb Childress 出版社: University of Chicago Press 副标题: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission 出版年: 2019-4-24 页数: 208 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780226496665
Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once prep and grading are factored in, barely reaches minimum wage.
Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once prep and grading are factored in, barely reaches minimum wage.
Welcome to the life of the mind in the gig economy. Over the past few decades, the job of college professor has been utterly transformed—for the worse. America’s colleges and universities were designed to serve students and create knowledge through the teaching, research, and stability that come with the longevity of tenured faculty, but higher education today is dominated by adjuncts. In 1975, only thirty percent of faculty held temporary or part-time positions. By 2011, as universities faced both a decrease in public support and ballooning administrative costs, that number topped fifty percent. Now, some surveys suggest that as many as seventy percent of American professors are working course-to-course, with few benefits, little to no security, and extremely low pay.
In The Adjunct Underclass, Herb Childress draws on his own firsthand experience and that of other adjuncts to tell the story of how higher education reached this sorry state. Pinpointing numerous forces within and beyond higher ed that have driven this shift, he shows us the damage wrought by contingency, not only on the adjunct faculty themselves, but also on students, the permanent faculty and administration, and the nation. How can we say that we value higher education when we treat educators like desperate day laborers?
Measured but passionate, rooted in facts but sure to shock, The Adjunct Underclass reveals the conflicting values, strangled resources, and competing goals that have fundamentally changed our idea of what college should be. This book is a call to arms for anyone who believes that strong colleges are vital to society.
作者简介
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Herb Childress is a partner at Teleidoscope Group, LLC, an ethnography-based consulting firm. Until 2013, he was dean of research and assessment at the Boston Architectural College, and prior to that, he was a Mellon Lecturing Fellow and associate director of the University Writing Program at Duke University. He is the author of Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy: Curtis...
Herb Childress is a partner at Teleidoscope Group, LLC, an ethnography-based consulting firm. Until 2013, he was dean of research and assessment at the Boston Architectural College, and prior to that, he was a Mellon Lecturing Fellow and associate director of the University Writing Program at Duke University. He is the author of Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy: Curtisville in the Lives of Its Teenagers and The PhDictionary: A Glossary of Things You Don’t Know (but Should) about Doctoral and Faculty Life.
目录
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1 What the Brochures Dont Tell You
1
2 The Permanent and the Contingent
19
3 Bronze Silver Gold or Platinum
31
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1 What the Brochures Dont Tell You
1
2 The Permanent and the Contingent
19
3 Bronze Silver Gold or Platinum
31
4 Building the Contingent Workforce
51
5 If We Dont Pay Teachers Why Is My Tuition So High?
69
6 The Comforts of Those inside the Castle
101
7 Hapless Bystanders
115
8 What to Do?
137
Life in Exile
157
Appendix A Tracking the Elements of Culture Change
165
Appendix B The Academic Career Calibration Protocol
175
Acknowledgments
185
Notes
187
Bibliography
195
Index
209
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5 有用 YING 2020-11-13 19:17:29
學院傷痕文學一種。尾聲自述前塵,不忍卒讀。
5 有用 木光 2021-02-04 14:00:03
名副其实的学院伤痕文学,深挖美国大学剥削临时工讲师的现象。随着博士的过量生产,终身教职的逐渐减少,学校的公司化,大学最后可能会变成Uber滴滴一样的商业平台,看上去很赚钱,但是提供核心服务(教育/出行)的人(教师/司机)却是毫无合同保障可言的零工。btw 台版译为《兼任下流》,真是无力吐槽,日语的汉字不带这么用的吧
1 有用 嗝屁唄: 2023-10-25 00:22:27 美国
And the sacrifice normalizes itself into more sacrifice, the devotion becomes its own reward, the burn of the hunger as good as the meal.
0 有用 The Chosen One 2023-11-12 12:39:18 北京
中译本《学历之死》的原版
0 有用 好奇白猫 2023-11-17 15:19:24 北京
作者非常理想主义,希望学生得多良好的教育,教师也可以探索自己的兴趣。可是现实带来无尽的悲伤。