This paper analyzes the novel, "A Tenured Professor," by John Kenneth Galbraith, in an exploration of the impact of fictional writing and other popular and mass media on public perceptions of higher education. In the book Galbraith offers his views on his own experience as a leading educator and on the world of higher education. The book…

Although more than half of all college students in this country are enrolled in two-year colleges and nearly half of all college faculty members teach in these institutions, two-year colleges are rarely mentioned in American fiction. An informal survey of over 100 people who read widely turned up only four novels and two short stories in which a…

Uses university-based fictions or campus novels from the past 200 years to explore England's continuing concern about the exclusiveness of Oxford and Cambridge. Describes a development from portrayals of the poor student as illuminator of the inadequacies of Oxford or Cambridge, to modern comic novels where the poorer student acts as a destructive…