In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the
academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is
plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few.
Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps
Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in
higher education.
Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical urges academics
to apply the theoretical advances of the last twenty years to an
analysis of their own practices and standards of behavior. In the
process, Nelson offers a devastating critique of current inequities and
a detailed proposal for change in the form of A Twelve-Step Program for
Academia.