The Professoriate Today: Languishing in Dante's Purgatory - Paperback

by John Jack Hampton (Author)

The changing role and expectations of higher education have reached a crisis point. The heart of the problem is an isolation of the professoriate. An emphasis on obscure research and lack of accountability is undermining the academy. Creating a dissertation is usually an exhausting and frustrating task. New professors are not prepared for what is about to happen to them. Students are being shortchanged by professors who fail to facilitate learning. The effort to find a long-term academic appointment can be just as bad. This book tells the story of a period of suffering for new professors quite comparable to the description of purgatory in Dante's Divine Comedy. This book documents the story.

Author Biography

John J. Hampton is a Professor of Business at St. Peter's University in New Jersey and a principal in the Princeton Consulting Group. He was dean of the schools of business at Seton Hall and Connecticut State universities, and provost of the College of Insurance and SUNY Maritime College in New York City. He is the author of Culture, Intricacies, and Obsessions in Academia - Why Colleges and Universities are Struggling to Deliver the Goods (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).