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ProfScam : professors and the demise of higher education

Title
ProfScam : professors and the demise of higher education / Charles J. Sykes.
Author
Sykes, Charles J., 1954-
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Regnery Gateway ; New York, NY : Distributed to the trade by Kampmann & Co., ©1988.

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Description
x, 304 pages; 24 cm
Summary
ProfScam reveals the direct and ultimate reason for the collapse of higher education in the Unites States-- the selfish, wayward, and corrupt American university professor. -- Publisher description.
Subject
  • Education, Higher > United States
  • College teachers > United States > Attitudes
  • College teachers > Attitudes
  • Education, Higher
  • Berufsethik
  • Bildungsniveau
  • Hochschullehrer
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 265-292.
Contents
The indictment -- The rise of the professor -- The crucifixion of teaching -- Dare to be stupid: the curriculum, a short course -- Through the looking glass: an introduction to academic research -- Profspeak -- The weird world of the academic journals -- Academic license -- The deformation -- The abolition of man: the humanities -- The pseudo-scientists: the social sciences -- Beyond the dreams of avarice: the sciences -- Fraud -- Storming the ivory tower.
ISBN
  • 0895265591
  • 9780895265593
LCCN
88021942
OCLC
  • ocm18223501
  • 18223501
  • SCSB-1731037
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library