 | A Professor at the End of Time: The Work and Future of the Professoriate Subjects: College teachers -- United States; College teaching -- United States; Education Higher -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States; Education Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States; Learning and scholarship -- United States; 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 analyzes 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. JOHN BEST is professor emeritus of psychology at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. He is the author of Cognitive Psychology . |
