TY - BOOK N2 - 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 AB - 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 T1 - In the basement of the ivory tower :confessions of an accidental academic / DA - 2011. CY - New York : AU - Professor X. CN - LB2331.72 CN - LB2331.72 PB - Viking, PP - New York : PY - 2011. ID - 350184 KW - College teachers, Part-time KW - College teachers, Part-time KW - English teachers SN - 9780670022564 SN - 067002256X TI - In the basement of the ivory tower :confessions of an accidental academic / ER -