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Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy

In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education. The second half of the volume offers "alternative futures" for the academy, visions that involve academic organizations, public outreach through the internet, faculty unionization, and campus organizing. Office Hoursis a roll-up-your-sleeves look at the avoidable disaster facing the modern university.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 232 pages

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