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- catalog abstract ""I began this book to articulate my sense of disappointment and alienation from the status I had fought so hard to achieve." A remarkable admission from an alumnus of Harvard Law School who has held tenured professorships in the law schools of Yale and Stanford and has taught in the law schools of Harvard and Chicago. In this personal reflection on the status of higher education, Julius Getman probes the tensions between status and meaning, elitism and egalitarianism, that challenge the academy and academics today. He shows how higher education creates a shared intellectual community among people of varied classes and races - while simultaneously dividing people on the basis of education and status. In the course of his explorations, Getman touches on many of the most current issues in higher education today, including the conflict between teaching and research, challenges to academic freedom, the struggle over multiculturalism, and the impact of minority and feminist activism. Getman presents these issues through relevant, often humorous anecdotes, using his own and others' experiences in coping with the constantly changing academic landscape. Written from a liberal perspective, the book offers another side of the story told in such recent works as Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals. It will be important reading for everyone concerned with the future of higher education, as well as for anyone considering an academic career.".
- catalog contributor b3765988.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""I began this book to articulate my sense of disappointment and alienation from the status I had fought so hard to achieve." A remarkable admission from an alumnus of Harvard Law School who has held tenured professorships in the law schools of Yale and Stanford and has taught in the law schools of Harvard and Chicago. In this personal reflection on the status of higher education, Julius Getman probes the tensions between status and meaning, elitism and egalitarianism, that challenge the academy and academics today. He shows how higher education creates a shared intellectual community among people of varied classes and races - while simultaneously dividing people on the basis of education and status. In the course of his explorations, Getman touches on many of the most current issues in higher education today, including the conflict between teaching and research, challenges to academic freedom, the struggle over multiculturalism, and the impact of minority and feminist activism. Getman presents these issues through relevant, often humorous anecdotes, using his own and others' experiences in coping with the constantly changing academic landscape. Written from a liberal perspective, the book offers another side of the story told in such recent works as Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind and Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals. It will be important reading for everyone concerned with the future of higher education, as well as for anyone considering an academic career.".
- catalog description "1. The Attraction of Academic Life -- 2. The Basic Academic Processes and the Search for Meaning: The Conflict between Elitist and Egalitarian Values -- 3. The Relationship of Faculty to Academic Institutions -- 4. The Struggle for Change -- 5. Special Features of Academic Life.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 294 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "In the company of scholars.".
- catalog identifier "0292727550 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "In the company of scholars.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin : University of Texas Press,".
- catalog relation "In the company of scholars.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "378.73 20".
- catalog subject "Education, Higher Political aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Education, Higher United States Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Education, Humanistic United States.".
- catalog subject "Elite (Social sciences) United States.".
- catalog subject "LA227.4 .G48 1992".
- catalog subject "Universities and colleges United States Faculty.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Attraction of Academic Life -- 2. The Basic Academic Processes and the Search for Meaning: The Conflict between Elitist and Egalitarian Values -- 3. The Relationship of Faculty to Academic Institutions -- 4. The Struggle for Change -- 5. Special Features of Academic Life.".
- catalog title "In the company of scholars : the struggle for the soul of higher education / Julius Getman.".
- catalog type "text".