The fall of the faculty
by Benjamin Ginsberg · first published 2011
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Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--Administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience
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Yes, great book about just this: 1. Benjamin Ginsberg: The Fall of the Faculty. The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters. 2. Harry R. Lewis: Excellence without Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education.
on “Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia?” ↗…loss and crisis) - Professional management (a deep sickness of motive) What is the real cost of employing millions of people to bullshit each other? Benjamin Ginsberg first rang alarm bells on "The Fall of the Faculty" over a decade ago. Since then, the damage done to education, research and academic life by the infection of bureaucracy is immeasurable. To think of all the good professors leaving the vocation, the…
on “Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower” ↗…lunatic "leftist" ideas, it's also financialisation, professional management, technological dehumanisation, crippling debt and plummeting mental health of students. Everything Ben Ginsberg wrote in "Fall of the faculty" and Prof. Wendy Brown said about globalisation and education has come to pass. The attacks on universities are sustained and rabid, and they come from every corner of the political and intellectual spectrum,…
on “Concordia University 'Decolonises' Engineering” ↗> just how serious should she... be taken? Very seriously indeed if you value higher education and research. Lot's of people do. Over a decade ago now, Ben Ginsberg wrote "Fall of the Faculty". Political scientists like Wendy Brown have picked apart not only the evidence, but done deep analytical work on the reasons for the disintegration of academia in the West. Even Peter Thiel (who I profoundly…
on “Mourning and moving on: rituals for leaving a career (2014)” ↗…your witnessed for side-stepping consequences for psychopathic behaviour actually were. This isn't the forum for deep discussion, or too much acidic denouncing, but I do suggest reading Ginsberg's "Fall of the Faculty" and some of Henry Giroux's work. Both would be labelled "shrill leftists", in a domain that ironically is already considered "too left liberal". However, that consideration of orthodox political spectrum strikes…
on “Plagiarized in a plagiarism atonement essay” ↗…taking over most universities and the money has been going to "ensure higher pay for a burgeoning legion of bureaucrats." The article mentions Benjamin Ginsberg, who goes into more depth on this topic in "Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters".
on “There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts” ↗