Forty Years in the Academic Trenches by Frank Heppner

Forty Years in the Academic Trenches by Frank Heppner

Following his retirement after forty years as a biology professor at the University of Rhode Island, Frank Heppner found in his office 16 packed file drawers of university documents and correspondence dating back to 1969. When arranged chronologically, these documents revealed stories that accounted for the massive changes that his college had experienced. These changes touched every aspect of university life, including admissions, budgets, department and college organization, tenure procedures, value to faculty of seeking outside funds, roles of administrators vs. faculty, value of out-of-state admissions, increased busywork due to increased bureaucracy, encroachment of outside societal concerns on traditional mission of universities, mandated but unfunded activities, generational changes in students, computers internet, devices and phones, and traditional vs. electronic teaching. Heppner looks at the effects these changes have had on his and similar institutions, and discusses what might be next.

Heppner, Frank: - Frank Heppner was born to a railroad family. His father was a doctor for the Southern Pacific Railroad in San Francisco, he had his first train ride when he was three and he made his first scratch-built HO railroad car when he was thirteen (he still has it). He s ridden over 500,000 miles by rail in twenty-three different countries. As a graduate student, he talked his way into cab rides on the Shasta Daylight in California and the Super Chief through Raton Pass. Between train rides, he picked up a PhD in zoology from the University of California at Davis and taught first-year biology to over twenty-five thousand students at the University of Rhode Island. He retired from this day job in 2010 after writing more than sixty scientific papers. He was a founding member of the Friends of the Kingston Station and is today its chairman. He is also active in the Rhode Island Association of Railroad Passengers and is a member of the Little Rhody Division of the National Model Railroad Association.

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ISBN 13	9780578720210
ISBN 10	0578720213
Title	Forty Years in the Academic Trenches
Author	Frank Heppner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ornis Press
Year published	2020-07-12
Number of pages	160
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