If you are looking for a book which describes the modern college, Naomi Schaefer Riley’s The Faculty Lounge is a good choice. The subtitle tells all: The Faculty Lounges: and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For. There are two problems with that title: 1) It ends in a preposition—a grammatical failing which always causes me pain, and 2) it is terribly misleading. The Book should really be called: The Faculty Lounge: Why Tenure Should Be … [Read more...] about Time to Abolish Tenure?
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