Review
“A very sobering and grim tale....It is a call to arms and an ice cold shower for sleeping academics. No jabs, just left and right hooks for sixteen rounds. This is not a book that will win [the author] a lot of friends, but he may well influence more than he thinks possible.”–John Van Maanen Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Product Description
In this provocative criticism of the contemporary American professoriate, Huer argues that tenure has created a kind of academic stupor in which those who have it no longer live up to the ideals of their profession. In Huer's view, the typical tenured career often degenerates into intellectual boredom, the routine publication of a series of narrowly specialized research papers, a pervasive dissatisfaction, and a search for monetary and other rewards outside the university. Huer proposes that the time has come to reexamine the issues surrounding tenure in an attempt to reinvigorate the professoriate and reestablish a fruitful connection between academic and nonacademic society.
