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ProfScam reveals the direct and ultimate reason for the collapse of higher education in the Unites States-- the selfish, wayward, and corrupt American university professor.

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Playing upon the American public's esteem for education and its willingness to pay any price for it, a powerful new breed of tenured professors is virtually destroying some of this country's most venerable colleges and universities. Moving from Harvard to Berkeley, with significant stops between, journalist Sykes builds his case against profs who abandon their teaching responsibilities to pursue private interests, penalize colleagues who can and do teach well, distort the ideals of curriculum and academic freedom, and cloak their scholarship in inscrutable jargon to conceal the fact that much of what passes for research is trivial and inane. In his analysis of the sometimes ludicrous content of various academic disciplines, the author's indignation is tinged with humor: the use of words such as junkthink and the description of the attempt to legitimize the social sciences by adding mathematics are particularly fine. A few suggestions for reform are bravely appended. Notes; index. -- Paula Sedor