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- catalog abstract "Parents groan as college tuition rises faster than the rate of inflation. Students wonder where the distinguished professors are hiding as inexperienced graduate students take over the classroom. Business executives, straining to increase employee output, question how faculty productivity is measured. Alumni suspect the trustees of their alma mater are not exacting accountability for administrative performance. The public is concerned that "political correctness" is warping the curriculum. Taxpayers ask whether they are getting their money's worth on state-supported campuses. Richard Huber addresses these issues in a book that is both entertaining to read and striking in its insights. Tuition rises faster than the rate of inflation in part because universities enhance their academic reputations by hiring high-salaried scholars with low teaching loads. Undergraduate teaching is often terrible because professors are trained as researchers and rewarded as scholars, not teachers. Faculty output is measured by crude instruments which encourage goofing off as a masquerade for productive work. Trustees fail to enforce accountability because they are typically not familiar with the academic world and are confused by a university culture so totally different from their own corporate culture. The current brawl over the curriculum is not just an ivory tower dispute over race and ethnicity but a challenge to what kind of place America is to be. Taxpayers are not getting their money's worth because research and doctoral-granting universities, the focus of this book, are locked into outmoded personnel practices that assume all tenured professors will be productive scholars. Huber concludes with realistic reforms to improve the teaching of undergraduates and reduce the cost of higher education. And that would be a win-win prescription for the nation as well as the universities.".
- catalog contributor b3699422.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "1. Conflict/Correspondence of Interest -- 2. Mission, Trustees, and the President -- 3. The Exercise of Authority -- 4. The Faculty -- 5. Curriculum--"A Buzzing Confusion of Complaints" -- 6. Curriculum--Multiculturalism -- 7. Students -- 8. Tuition--Sticker Price -- 9. Tuition--Costs and Benefits -- 10. Tuition--Where It Goes -- 11. Evaluation and Some Follies -- 12. Doables--Improve Quality -- 13. Doables--Cut Costs -- Appendix A--The Ironies of the University -- Appendix B--Carnegie Classifications -- Appendix C--Rankings.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-194) and index.".
- catalog description "Parents groan as college tuition rises faster than the rate of inflation. Students wonder where the distinguished professors are hiding as inexperienced graduate students take over the classroom. Business executives, straining to increase employee output, question how faculty productivity is measured. Alumni suspect the trustees of their alma mater are not exacting accountability for administrative performance. The public is concerned that "political correctness" is warping the curriculum. Taxpayers ask whether they are getting their money's worth on state-supported campuses. Richard Huber addresses these issues in a book that is both entertaining to read and striking in its insights. Tuition rises faster than the rate of inflation in part because universities enhance their academic reputations by hiring high-salaried scholars with low teaching loads. Undergraduate teaching is often terrible because professors are trained as researchers and rewarded as scholars, not teachers. Faculty output is measured by crude instruments which encourage goofing off as a masquerade for productive work. Trustees fail to enforce accountability because they are typically not familiar with the academic world and are confused by a university culture so totally different from their own corporate culture. The current brawl over the curriculum is not just an ivory tower dispute over race and ethnicity but a challenge to what kind of place America is to be. Taxpayers are not getting their money's worth because research and doctoral-granting universities, the focus of this book, are locked into outmoded personnel practices that assume all tenured professors will be productive scholars. Huber concludes with realistic reforms to improve the teaching of undergraduates and reduce the cost of higher education. And that would be a win-win prescription for the nation as well as the universities.".
- catalog extent "v, 201 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "How professors play the cat guarding the cream.".
- catalog identifier "0913969435 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "How professors play the cat guarding the cream.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Fairfax, Va. : George Mason University Press ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by National Book Network,".
- catalog relation "How professors play the cat guarding the cream.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "378.73 20".
- catalog subject "College costs United States.".
- catalog subject "College students United States.".
- catalog subject "College teachers Salaries, etc. United States.".
- catalog subject "Corporate culture United States.".
- catalog subject "LA227.4 .H83 1992".
- catalog subject "Universities and colleges United States Administration.".
- catalog subject "Universities and colleges United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Conflict/Correspondence of Interest -- 2. Mission, Trustees, and the President -- 3. The Exercise of Authority -- 4. The Faculty -- 5. Curriculum--"A Buzzing Confusion of Complaints" -- 6. Curriculum--Multiculturalism -- 7. Students -- 8. Tuition--Sticker Price -- 9. Tuition--Costs and Benefits -- 10. Tuition--Where It Goes -- 11. Evaluation and Some Follies -- 12. Doables--Improve Quality -- 13. Doables--Cut Costs -- Appendix A--The Ironies of the University -- Appendix B--Carnegie Classifications -- Appendix C--Rankings.".
- catalog title "How professors play the cat guarding the cream : why we're paying more and getting less in higher education / Richard M. Huber.".
- catalog type "text".