{"product_id":"a-professor-at-the-end-of-time-the-work-and-future-of-the-professoriate-paperback-softback-9780813585925","title":"A Professor at the End of Time; The Work and Future of the Professoriate (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813585925","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Professor at the End of Time\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Work and Future of the Professoriate\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Best (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813585925\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 March 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages, 6 figures, 20 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“For those wondering what typical professors do, \u003ci\u003eA Professor at the End of Time\u003c\/i\u003e offers a carefully documented look under the hood. And for those wondering about the road ahead for higher education, it invites us to retain the best of yesterday’s world while harnessing the potential of tomorrow’s digital, cost-conscious world.”\u003c\/div\u003e - David G. Myers (Professor of Psychology, Hope College) \u003cdiv\u003e“Best provides a unique perspective of a life in academia in his verbal documentary. His story within a story juxtaposes a faculty career amidst a time of change in higher education.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Pamela L. Eddy (Professor of Higher Education, The College of William and Mary) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Professor at the End of Time\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging read that should interest current academics as they contemplate the future of their chosen profession. It will also be valuable to historians looking for an archive of data regarding the Golden Age of higher education by providing specific data to analyze. It paints a realistic model of what challenges faced Professor Best in his 34-year career and contains numerous narratives from his teaching. It also serves as a warning to professors everywhere that remaining complacent and believing that academia is monolithic and unchanging in the ivory tower is dangerous.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Review of Higher Education)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eA \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eProfessor at the End of Time\u003c\/i\u003e tells one professor’s story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyzes what the job included before the supernova of technological innovation, the general influx of less-well-prepared students, and the diminution of state and federal support wrought wholesale changes on the profession.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I Blocking the Action\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Standing at the Edge of Time\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II A Professor at Work\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 The Work of the Teaching College Professor: In (and Out of) the Classroom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Technology Changing Courses, Changing Students, Changing Professors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Research: The Barren Victory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Where Service Leads\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III The Professoriate’s Imperiled Future\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 What Happens after the End of Time?: Vectors on a Collision Course\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Some Time Traveling for Me\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppendix: The Materials and the Method\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563703857432,"sku":"9780813585925","price":26.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-professor-at-the-end-of-time-the-work-and-future-of-the-professoriate-paperback-softback-9780813585925","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}