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The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, With a New Introduction,Used
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What makes the modern university different from any other corporation? asked Columbias Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. There is more and more reason to think: less and less, he answered.In this provocative book, Frank Donoghue shows how this growing corporate culture of higher education threatens its most fundamental values by erasing one of its defining features: the tenured professor. With the rise of neoliberalism and the gig economy, the notion of the professoriate has become replaced in our consciousness with the notion of academic labor.Taking a cleareyed look at American higher education over the last twenty years, Donoghue outlines a web of forcessocial, political, and institutionaldismantling the professoriate. Today, fewer than 30 percent of college and university teachers are tenured or on tenure tracks, and signs point to a future where professors will disappear. Why? What will universities look like without professors? Who will teach? Why should it matter?The fate of the professor, Donoghue shows, has always been tied to that of the liberal artswith the humanities at its core. The rise to prominence of the American university has been defined by the strength of the humanities and by the central role of the autonomous, tenured professor who can be both scholar and teacher. Yet in todays marketdriven, rank and ratingsobsessed world of higher education, corporate logic prevails: faculties are to be managed for optimal efficiency, productivity, and competitive advantage; casual armies of adjuncts and graduate students now fill the demand for teachers.Bypassing the distractions of the culture wars and other crises, Donoghue sheds light on the structural changes in higher educationthe rise of community colleges and forprofit universities, the frenzied pursuit of prestige everywhere, the brutally competitive realities facing new Ph.D.sthat threaten the survival of professors as weve known them.There are no quick fixes in The Last Professors; rather, Donoghue offers his fellow teachers and scholars an essential field guide to making their way in a world that no longer has room for their dreams.First published in 2008, The Last Professors has largely had its arguments borne out in the interim, as the percentage of courses taught by tenured professors continues to dwindle. This new edition includes a substantial new Introduction that elaborates on recent developments and offers tough but productive analysis that will be crucial for today's academics to heed.
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