Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn

Faculty members who care about the institutions of higher education where they work are often at odds with university management. In his forceful book, Under New Management, Randy Martin takes a novel, evenhanded approach to this gulf between professors, who feel a loss of autonomy, and administrators.

Martin imagines a political future for academic labor based on a critical understanding of the administrative work that faculty already undertake. He considers the differences between self-rule and specialized expertise and provides a case study of a New York City public school to show how kids and families respond to the demands of managerial productivity that is part of preparing students for college. Under New Management also considers changes faced by students, faculty, and administrators in light of this reworked social compact of professionals.

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Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn

Faculty members who care about the institutions of higher education where they work are often at odds with university management. In his forceful book, Under New Management, Randy Martin takes a novel, evenhanded approach to this gulf between professors, who feel a loss of autonomy, and administrators.

Martin imagines a political future for academic labor based on a critical understanding of the administrative work that faculty already undertake. He considers the differences between self-rule and specialized expertise and provides a case study of a New York City public school to show how kids and families respond to the demands of managerial productivity that is part of preparing students for college. Under New Management also considers changes faced by students, faculty, and administrators in light of this reworked social compact of professionals.

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Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn

Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn

by Randy Martin
Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn

Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn

by Randy Martin

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Faculty members who care about the institutions of higher education where they work are often at odds with university management. In his forceful book, Under New Management, Randy Martin takes a novel, evenhanded approach to this gulf between professors, who feel a loss of autonomy, and administrators.

Martin imagines a political future for academic labor based on a critical understanding of the administrative work that faculty already undertake. He considers the differences between self-rule and specialized expertise and provides a case study of a New York City public school to show how kids and families respond to the demands of managerial productivity that is part of preparing students for college. Under New Management also considers changes faced by students, faculty, and administrators in light of this reworked social compact of professionals.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781439906972
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 06/17/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 732 KB

About the Author

Randy Martin is Professor and Chair of Art and Public Policy at New York University. He is author or editor of a dozen books, including An Empire of Indifference: American War and the Financial Logic of Risk Management, and Financialization of Daily Life (Temple).

Table of Contents

Preface


Acknowledgments


1. The Ends of Education


2. Getting There


3. What Is A Student to Think?


4. W(h)ither Academic Freedom? Revaluing Faculty Work


5. The Work of Administration


6. Conditions of Interdisciplinarity


7. Registering Organization


8. (Out) from Under New Management


Notes


Index

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