Every year the push to send more Americans to college gathers momentum. But it is one thing to go to college—and quite another to graduate. As more and more families find themselves mired in debt, some are wondering whether college is really worth it. Professor X is of the view that all that time and money could be put to much better use.
Seduced by a too-persuasive real estate broker and suddenly trapped by a mortgage he couldn't afford, Professor X dusted off his MFA degree and took first one, then two jobs teaching English 101 and 102—introductions to writing and literature—at a small private college and a local community college. As an adjunct, a member of the poorly paid underclass who are now teaching the vast majority of our college courses, he found himself on the front lines of America's academic crisis. It was quite an education.
This is the story of what he learned: about his struggling pupils, about the college system—a business bent on its own financial targets—about the classics he rediscovered, and about himself. In the Basement of the Ivory Tower is both a brilliant academic satire and a poignant account of one teacher's seismic frustration, and unlikely salvation, as he stumbles from one subprime crisis into another of an altogether more human dimension. |
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