A Professor at the End of Time

Tells one professor's story in the context of the rapid reconfiguration of higher education going on now, and analyses 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.

Preface
 
Part I Blocking the Action
Chapter 1 Standing at the Edge of Time
 
Part II A Professor at Work
Chapter 2 The Work of the Teaching College Professor: In (and Out of) the Classroom
Chapter 3 Technology Changing Courses, Changing Students, Changing Professors
Chapter 4 Research: The Barren Victory
Chapter 5 Where Service Leads
 
Part III The Professoriate’s Imperiled Future
Chapter 6 What Happens after the End of Time?: Vectors on a Collision Course
Chapter 7 Some Time Traveling for Me
 
Appendix: The Materials and the Method
Notes
References
Index