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And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For
Ivan R. Dee
June 2011
On Sale: June 16, 2011
216 pages
ISBN: 1566638860
EAN: 9781566638869
Kindle: B004UGMVL6
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Non-Fiction
College tuition has risen four times faster than the rate of
inflation in the past two decades. While faculties like to
blame the rising costs on fancy athletic buildings and
bloated administrations, professors are hardly getting the
short end of the stick. Spending on instruction has
increased 22 percent over the past decade at private
research universities. Parents and taxpayers shouldn't get overheated about faculty
salaries: tenure is where they should concentrate their
anger. The jobs-for-life entitlement that comes with an
ivory tower position is at the heart of so many problems
with higher education today. Veteran journalist Naomi
Schaefer Riley, an alumna of one of the country's most
expensive and best-endowed schools, explores how tenure has
promoted a class system in higher education, leaving
contingent faculty who are barely making minimum wage and
have no time for students to teach large swaths of the
undergraduate population. She shows how the institution of tenure forces junior
professors to keep their mouths shut for a decade or more if
they disagree with senior faculty about anything from
politics to research methods. And she examines how the
institution of 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.
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