Christensen, a Harvard business school professor, has predicted that in 15 years, half of all universities will be out of business because higher education, with its skyrocketing costs, is ripe for technological upheaval.Scary stuff for the professoriate!
Why not the soon-to-be "disrupted" professoriate?
Heidegger, it seems, had implicitly adopted the critique of "mass society" set forth by 19th-century thinkers such as Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, a perspective that was well established within Germany's largely illiberal professoriate in the early 20th century.
The response from the professoriate was swift, severe, accurate, and thoughtful.
Besides discrimination, what factors could be keeping conservatives out of Ph.D. programs, and so the professoriate?
"The idea," Mr. Sexton said, "is that in a century where more and more people as well as ideas are operating beyond national boundaries, the professoriate and the talent class will be highly mobile," he said.
"What you argue," he told Mr. Gura, "is the darling of the professoriate, for sure, but it's also contrary to 140 years of our jurisprudence".
The politics of the professoriate has been studied by the economists Christopher Cardiff and Daniel Klein and the sociologists Neil Gross and Solon Simmons.
If Mr. Bruni wants his niece to be truly "yanked," "provoked" and "challenged," then perhaps she should consider a school with at least a few outspoken professors who fall outside the ranks of liberals who dominate today's professoriate.
Woods's apology for the pain his marital infidelities have caused family, friends and fans (in roughly that order of hurt) elicited the analysis of a veritable professoriate of apology experts who have been honing their skills for years on the blood-spattered sidewalk of prominent people's reputations.
Shea claims this all-too-common depiction of a pampered professoriate is not "entirely false".
