PDF⋙ The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance: Professionalization and the Modern American University by Larry G. Gerber
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance: Professionalization and the Modern American University by Larry G. Gerber The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance: Professionalization and the Modern American University by Larry G. Gerber PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in the late nineteenth century and was the principal justification for granting teachers power in making educational decisions. In the twentieth century, the efforts of these governing faculties were directly responsible for molding American higher education into the finest academic system in the world. In recent decades, however, the growing complexity of "multiversities" and the application of business strategies to manage t...