The Pleasures of Academe

A Celebration and Defense of Higher Education

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by James Axtell

University of Nebraska Press

Due/Published September 1999, 288 pages, paper

ISBN 0803259387

Axtell's defense of higher education. Drawing on national statistics, broad-ranging scholarship, and anecdotes, Axtell describes the professorial work cycle, the evolution of scholarship in the past three decades, the importance of Òhabitual scholarship,Ó and the best ways to judge a university. He confronts the critics of higher education, arguing that they have perpetuated misunderstandings of tenure, research, teaching, curricular change, and professorial politics.