The professorial life: Seamlessness, synergy, and significance

Kenneth Paul TAN

doi:10.1142/9789814635394_0031

The professorial life: Seamlessness, synergy, and significance

Kenneth Paul TAN

Department of Journalism

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I've always believed that the best kind of professor takes research, teaching, and service seriously. At a time when the worldwide landscape of higher education is becoming increasingly dominated by research-intensive universities competing on sometimes very narrow sets of criteria to rise up the global university rankings, it will take the courageous efforts of a cadre of passionate and well-balanced professors to defend the nobler qualities of academic life against such pathologies…

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Governing Asia
Subtitle of host publication	Reflections on a Research Journey
Publisher	World Scientific
Chapter	31
Pages	171-177
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9789814635400
ISBN (Print)	9789814635073, 9789814635189
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814635394_0031
Publication status	Published - Dec 2014

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