Final BA

In The New York Times editorial by Mark Bauerlein entitled " What's the Point of a Professor?" (May 9, 2015), what does Bauerlein say is the fundamental shift in the role of the professor? Do you think most informed Americans would find Bauerlein's characterization of this shift as credible? Provide examples from any of your reading, your conversations with other Americans or your experience to support your evaluation of the author's assertion.


The Role of the University in a Changing World by Drew Gilpin Faust at Harvard.edu [June 30 2010]

"The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors are Fighting Back" by Elizabeth Segran for The Atlantic [April 28, 2014]

"Teaching, Principles and the Role of the Professor" in Inside Higher Ed by Leonard V. Kaplan [December 14, 2007]

 

All finals should be turned in to me by Sunday, May 24 [2015] at 6PM.