HOW TO MAKE A Ph.D. PAY.

When the owner of a hard-earned Ph.D. accepts a university teaching post, he hopes for advancement based on merit. But he soon sees that academic success is negotiable. Today gamesmanship it the Ph.D.’s surest means of getting to the top.

Academic Gamesmanship will be to the Ph.D. what The Peter Principle is to the business executive: a brilliant and hilarious guide to the strategies of success. Its expose of academic pretentiousness will seem irresistibly funny to every reader. But behind the lies the insight of a noted sociologist. Dr. van den Berghe punctures academic pomposity to reveal inefficiency. He weighs the in-fighting, credit-stealing, and buck-passing used in jockeying for power. He even questions the value of many scholars’ goals.

If the Ph.D. is willing to conform to today’s rules, he can use the well-tested tactics describ4d in Academic Gamesmanship . If the rules dismay  him, the book will help him change them. A highly respected professor himself, Dr. van den Berghe hopes that constructive change will soon out mode his book. Until then, it will remain the classic guide for the young Ph.D. who wants to avoid the pitfalls and win the rewards that should be his in academia.