Manifesto of a Tenured Radical

Manifesto of a Tenured Radical
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9780814757970
ISBN-13 : 0814757979
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Book Synopsis Manifesto of a Tenured Radical by : Cary Nelson

Download or read book Manifesto of a Tenured Radical written by Cary Nelson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in higher education. Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical urges academics to apply the theoretical advances of the last twenty years to an analysis of their own practices and standards of behavior. In the process, Nelson offers a devastating critique of current inequities and a detailed proposal for change in the form of A Twelve-Step Program for Academia.


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