In the basement of the ivory tower : confessions of an accidental academic / Professor X.
Professor X.
2011
LB2331.72 .P76 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
In the basement of the ivory tower : confessions of an accidental academic / Professor X.
Author
Professor X.
ISBN
9780670022564
067002256X
Publication Details
New York : Viking, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 258 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
LB2331.72 .P76 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.1/2
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references.
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