Drawing on his experience as a teacher, advisor, administrator, and philosopher, Steven M. Cahn diagnoses problems plaguing America's universities and offers his prescriptions for improvement. Inside Academia uses real cases to illustrate how faculty members, deans, and provosts often do not serve the best interests of schools or students.

STEVEN M. CAHN is professor emeritus of philosophy at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York, where he served for nearly a decade as provost and vice president for academic affairs, then as acting president.  He is the author or editor of sixty books, including Religion Within Reason and Teaching Philosophy: A Guide.   
 

Contents
Preface
1.         How Professors View Academia
2.         Graduate School
3.         Turning Point
4.         How Teachers Succeed
5.         Teaching Graduate Students to Teach
6.         Changing Departmental Culture
7.         The Administration
8.         Choosing Administrators
9.         Curricular Structure
10.       The Case for Liberal Education
11.       Requirements
12.       Distribution Requirements
13.       A Core Curriculum
14.       Departments
15.       Appointments
16.       Tenure and Academic Freedom
17.       A Tenure Case
18.       Autonomy
Index