@article{350184, recid = {350184}, author = {Professor X.}, title = {In the basement of the ivory tower : confessions of an accidental academic /}, publisher = {Viking,}, address = {New York :}, pages = {xxiii, 258 p. ;}, year = {2011}, abstract = {As his house starts falling apart in every imaginable way, Professor X grabs first one, then two jobs teaching English 101 and 102-composition and literature-at a small private college and a local community college. This is the story of what he learns about his struggling pupils, about the college system-a business more bent on its own financial targets than the wellbeing of its students-about the classics he rediscovers, and about himself. --from publisher description}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/350184}, }