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A Professor at the End of Time : The Work and Future of the Professoriate / John Best.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (270 p.) : 6 figures, 20 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813585932
  • 9780813585956
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.12
LOC classification:
  • LB1778.2 .B474 2017
  • LB1778.2
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 • Standing At The Edge Of Time -- Part 1. A Professor At Work -- 2 • The Work Of The Teaching College Professor In (And Out Of) The Classroom -- 3 • Technology Changing Courses, Students, And Professors -- 4 • Research The Barren Victory -- 5 • Where Service Leads -- Part 2 The Professoriate'S Imperiled Future -- 6 • What Happens After The End Of Time? Vectors On A Collision Course -- 7 • Some Time Traveling For Me -- Appendix: The Materials And The Method -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About The Author
Summary: A Professor at the End of Time tells one professor's story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of less-well-prepared students, and the diminution of state and federal support wrought wholesale changes on the profession.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 • Standing At The Edge Of Time -- Part 1. A Professor At Work -- 2 • The Work Of The Teaching College Professor In (And Out Of) The Classroom -- 3 • Technology Changing Courses, Students, And Professors -- 4 • Research The Barren Victory -- 5 • Where Service Leads -- Part 2 The Professoriate'S Imperiled Future -- 6 • What Happens After The End Of Time? Vectors On A Collision Course -- 7 • Some Time Traveling For Me -- Appendix: The Materials And The Method -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About The Author

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A Professor at the End of Time tells one professor's story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of less-well-prepared students, and the diminution of state and federal support wrought wholesale changes on the profession.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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