John R. Campbell

Dry Rot in the Ivory Tower

A Case for Fumigation, Ventilation, and Renewal of the Academic Sanctuary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

While many books have criticized higher education for an apparent bias towards leftist agendas, John R. Campbell takes a different approach. Through the compilation of 65 vignettes that peek behind the boardroom door, the author focuses on the bureaucratic and organizational stagnation that has led to "dry rot" in the ivory towers of academia. Dry Rot in the Ivory Tower presents substantive evidence of the problems that exist in universities today, and provides the author's prognosis for change. He addresses nepotism, ineffective faculty, lack of effective leadership, and other serious problems at our institutions of higher education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780761816461
• ISBN-10: 0761816461
• Artikelnr.: 30883604

Autorenporträt

John R. Campbell is President Emeritus of Oklahoma State University and former Dean of the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Foreword by Judith E.N. Albino
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Prologue
Chapter 4 On Dry Rot and Ivory Towers
Chapter 5 Governing Boards that Do Not Govern
Chapter 6 Academic Leaders Who Do Not Lead
Chapter 7 Professors Who Do Not Publish and Do Not Perish
Chapter 8 Professors Who Teach. . . But Not Much
Chapter 9 Institutional Culture: Cronyism, Nepotism, Featherbeds
Chapter 10 Institutional Culture: Fraud, Deceit, Conspiracy
Chapter 11 Athletics: Business as Usual
Chapter 12 Students: Uh-h-h. . . Oh Yeah!
Chapter 13 Combating Dry Rot in the Ivory Tower: Fumigation, Ventilation
and Renewal of the Academic Sanctuary