ABSTRACT

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 Hours is a roll-up-your-sleeves look at the avoidable disaster facing the modern university.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

It Might as Well Be a Conspiracy

part |81 pages

Part One Where We Are and How We Got There

chapter |11 pages

3. The Postdoc Paradox

chapter |15 pages

4. Disciplining Debt

part |117 pages

Part Two Toward Alternative Futures