Traveling Through the Boondocks

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"What is it like to be a faculty member at a university in the United States that enjoys no reputation or distinction? Traveling through the Boondocks discusses this situation not from the top down but from the bottom up, where the experience of exclusion ranges from that of departments where scholarship gets to count in hiring decisions to conferences where only individuals from elite institutions get to appear on stage. This book reinvigorates our understanding of higher education by illuminating the everyday conditions under which academics work and the hierarchical distinctions in which they are always embedded."--Jacket.

subjects: Universités,  Cas, Études de,  Leerkrachten,  Universities and colleges,  Aspect politique,  College teachers,  Lehre,  Professeurs (Enseignement supérieur),  Enseignement supérieur,  Higher Education,  Sociale status,  College teaching,  Departments,  Sélection et nomination,  Clarion University of Pennsylvania,  Départements,  Hoger onderwijs,  Hochschullehrer,  Hochschule,  Case studies,  Enseignement universitaire,  Selection and appointment,  Education, higher, political aspects,  Education, higher, united states,  Universities and colleges, united states,  Universities and colleges, faculty,  Political aspects