TY  - BOOK
AU  - Best,John
TI  - A Professor at the End of Time: The Work and Future of the Professoriate 
SN  - 9780813585932
AV  - LB1778.2 .B474 2017
U1  - 378.12 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - College teachers
KW  - United States
KW  - College teaching
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - Effect of technological innovations on
KW  - Learning and scholarship
KW  - EDUCATION / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813585956
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813585956
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ER  -