...Eric Leuschner Leuschner 137 Eric Leuschner Academic Memoir (on Elaine Showalter, Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents [Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2005]) Elaine Showalter wants you to know...

... tend to be from one small sector of PhD-granting institutions; the enormous preference for elite affiliation in these hiring competitions has stratified the discipline to the point that just 1 percent of faculty at top-ranked English departments are graduates from the so-called bottom 75 percent of PhD...

... track and tenured faculty members who teach in English doctoral programs in Canada, this article examines the relation between, on the one hand, the nationalities and the rankings of the programs in which these scholars obtained their degrees and, on the other, the tier of the programs in which these...

... faculty. She is currently interested in Freud, whom she reads as a secular theorist of sexuality. © 2011 Virginia Tech 2011 Works Cited McNulty Tracy . 2009 . “Demanding the Impossible: Desire and Social Change.” differences 20 : 1 – 39 . Scott Joan Wallach . 2001...

...Katie Hogan © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Katie Hogan What Is Criticism on Academic Labor For? There is a new criticism of academic labor, advocating both respect for intellectual work and equitable material conditions for students and faculty. This latest strand of criticism...

...Marc Bousquet © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Marc Bousquet We Work I once shocked a colleague by responding to one of those newspaper stories about a prof “caught” mowing his lawn on a Wednesday afternoon by saying that many tenured faculty were morally entitled to...

... programs and all continuing education courses represent a significant part of recent CUNY growth. According to Ellen Ballesein in the faculty/staff union (PSC/CUNY) newspaper, The Clarion, "Adult and continuing education programs, once a sideline to CUNY's main mission, now...

...: Priorities of the Professoriate . Princeton : Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching , 1990 . Burgan Mary . What Ever Happened to the Faculty: Drift and Decision in Higher Education . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2006 . Golden Daniel . The Price of Admission: How...

... Christopher Barry . “Faculty Salaries: 2006-2007.” The NEA 2008 Almanac of Higher Education . < http://www2.nea.org/he/healma2k8/images/a08p7.pdf >. The Chronicle of Higher Education . “Annual Percentage Changes in Salaries of Full-Time Faculty Members.” Database of Faculty Salaries at More...

... freedom, in many ways, is not that it is a right, but that it is the key to the productivity and usefulness of higher education. Innovation and creativity within universities is strongly enhanced by the general provision of autonomy to individual faculty members...

... fund managers, while their biggest losers include valuable portions of their faculties, staffs and students. In such a climate, whither the university? This question preoccupied Jacques Derrida for much of his career. The result, for readers of English, is a new...

... Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class [Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2008], Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein’s The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006]) “The thing being made in a university is humanity...

... reasoning given to juniors at senior colleges and to graduates in the community colleges. It's administered centrally, so that the faculty don't get too involved, and so that the colleges can't create too many loopholes. Also, CUNY is moving to reward particular programs with a "flagship" status...

... campuses with students needing "remedial" work in writing and mathematics at the taxpayers' expense. Concomitantly, college administrators scanning budgets notice large line items for instruction in these areas, most of it by the lowest status faculty with the least job security and the least...

... about composition as part of the undergraduate mission. It also says what I think is wrong, that the work is independent of the research mission of the university, that the work of teaching undergraduate writing doesn’t require or rely upon faculty paid to do research and...

... recently as a week ago our Associate Dean for Alumni Development and Faculty Research had urged a group of us Associates, over buffet bisque, to “think outside the box.” His words hit me like a headshot: “Bring us your fresh ideas. We have the money to fund them...

.... Women and racial/ethnic minorities continue to be overrepresented among tenured faculty in two- year, women's, and non-research/teaching colleges, while these same groups are underrepresented among tenured faculty in elite research institutions and resource-rich public universities (Messer...

... 129 ( Fall 2001 ): 1 - 13 . Rpt. Profession 2002. New York: MLA, 2002. 211-28 . Burgan Mary . What Ever Happened to the Faculty?: Drift and Decision in Higher Education . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 2006 . Fogg Piper . “So Many Committees, So Little Time.” The...

... of faculty, and the exploitation of undergrads, just came out and has become something of a rallying cry, especially for younger academics. Maybe you could talk about how you came to be a critic of the university. Bousquet For me the entry point was the...

.... Oliver Feltham. New York: Continuum, 2005. Burgan, Mary. What Ever Happened to the Faculty?: Drift and Decision in Higher Education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006. Deneef, Leigh A., and Craufurd D. Goodwin, eds. The Academic’s Handbook. Durham, Duke UP, 2007. Douglas, Mary. Thinking in...