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The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance: Professionalization and the Modern American University
Larry G. Gerber
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Paperback. Gerber reflects on whether American colleges and universities will be able to retain their position of global preeminence in an increasingly market-driven environment, given that the system of governance that helped make their success possible has been fundamentally altered. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JNMN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in the late nineteenth century and was the principal justification for granting teachers power in making educational decisions. In the twentieth century, the efforts of these governing faculties were directly responsible for molding American higher education into the finest academic system in the world. In recent decades, however, the growing complexity of "multiversities" and the application ... Read more
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in the late nineteenth century and was the principal justification for granting teachers power in making educational decisions. In the twentieth century, the efforts of these governing faculties were directly responsible for molding American higher education into the finest academic system in the world. In recent decades, however, the growing complexity of "multiversities" and the application ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
377g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421414638
SKU
V9781421414638
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About Larry G. Gerber
Larry G. Gerber, formerly the chair of the American Association of University Professors' Committee on College and University Governance and the national vice president of the AAUP, is professor emeritus of history at Auburn University. He is the author of The Irony of State Intervention: American Industrial Relations Policy in Comparative Perspective, 1914-1939 and The Limits of Liberalism: ... Read more
Reviews for The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance: Professionalization and the Modern American University
Timely, well written, and should be read widely.
Christopher Collins Teachers College Record I certainly wish I could have read it before I went into administration!... The threats to faculty governance, potentially to academic freedom, and the professionalization of the faculty, are all issues that confront the newest generation of faculty. They would be well served to gain a ... Read more
Christopher Collins Teachers College Record I certainly wish I could have read it before I went into administration!... The threats to faculty governance, potentially to academic freedom, and the professionalization of the faculty, are all issues that confront the newest generation of faculty. They would be well served to gain a ... Read more