Option Three A Novel about the University edition by Joel Shatzky Literature Fiction eBooks
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When Acting Visiting Assistant Professor L. Circassian is fired and rehired in the same week (with a 35 percent pay cut), he is only at the beginning of a cycle of abuse and professional debasement at the university. Joel Shatzky has created an hilarious novel about the corporatization of higher education - a book filled with blowhard deans, corrupt politicians, grasping CEOs, inept union officials, inappropriately dressed students, and scholars in donkey ears.
"Option Three is an imaginative, funny and sometimes all too realistic account of life in today's colleges and universities. Shatzky tells it like it (unfortunately) is in today's academic world." -Del Janik, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, SUNY, Cortland
"Joel Shatzky gives us a tour of a public university where the present vogue for competition and privatization has been taken to a logical extreme. The results are highly entertaining - and terrifying." -David Koistinen, Associate Professor of History, William Paterson University of New Jersey
"Option Three explores drastic takeovers of academia by corporations, in which the mantra becomes the bottom line of making money under a strict umbrella of profit only. Joel Shatzky's bizarre, most humorous and onerous odyssey confronts these changes with keen insight and most fearless fantasy." -Louis Trakis, Professor Emeritus in Art, Manhattanville College
"While much is written today about the failure of the schools, nowhere is there such a lucid account of the effect of this conspiracy on the genuine educators who are first, forbidden to do what we do best - create the lessons that develop the thinking skills that underlie all learning - and then punished and ostracized for standing our ground. I laughed at the cynical dialogue and outrageous administrative shenanigans, but when I finished, I wept like the teachers in the novel . . ." -Susan Lee Schwartz, winner of the NYSEC "Educator of Excellence Award"
Option Three A Novel about the University edition by Joel Shatzky Literature Fiction eBooks
The premise is interesting and the names of the characters are amusing, but overall it is too off the wall to be really funny. I thought the topic was very pertinent and timely, but the author missed an opportunity for a convincing story by making it too ridiculous to be credible. Bureaucracy at universities and abuse of the system by higher administrators is a subject worth telling. But Shatsky is no Malcolm Bradbury or David Lodge, unfortunately.Product details
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Option Three A Novel about the University edition by Joel Shatzky Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Joel Shatzky has managed to satirize the shenanigans that accompany the planned destruction of educational opportunity in this country. Through witty dialogue "Option Three" describes the culture and tactics that disable education. The farce is perfectly captured in the names of the characters, and the plot to offer coupons, accept anybody, and pass everybody in those courses where no learning occurs.
Through farce, Shatzky reveals the truth about the assault on education, as witnessed in 'lower ed' where similar dumbed down curricula replaced real learning objectives and criteria in our schools, and teachers were given no options and were placed on the firing block --the object of vicious behaviors by administrators who were not accountable and never worried about the law.
The destruction of public education is not funny, not when the privateers are taking aim at the universities and colleges.
"Option Three" uses satire to reveal the truth there are no options to the genuine professional educator when the privateers see dollar signs.
Credentials Four times included in Who's Who Among America's Teachers; In 1998, in the fourth decade of her successful career, Susan Lee Schwartz was awarded the NYSCEC (New York State English Council) Educator of Excellence Award after her practice became the cohort for The New Standards third level research, conducted by Harvard on the thesis, "The Eight Principles of Learning'
Joel Shatzky's Option Three is an often hilarious and yet poignant satire of today's higher education complex and, more broadly, corporate America. Its depiction of Acting Visiting Assistant Professor Circassian's attempt to survive in a typical American college of the early 21st century is all too realistic and, alas, prophetic. More and more professors are acting, visiting, adjunct, and contingent (that is, one minute away from being unemployed); even venerable public institutions are stealthily being corporatized and marginalized; and thanks to creeping (galloping?) technology too many colleges and universities are moving swiftly in the direction of where Circassian's ends up with instruction "95% automatic"; only 5% holdout students demand "live" teaching. But in Shatzky's hands the way to intellectual perdition keeps us laughing--sometimes literally out loud--through our tears. Circassian's surname reminds one of Yossarian, and Option Three is a Catch 22 for the contemporary academic world.
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Joel Shatzky's wry and raucous novel Option Three is a satirical look at current trend of universities relying on corporations to both fund them and set their agendas. At Generic U, the hapless hero, L. Circassain, is fired then rehired at a lower salary as (he finds) bottom line has become the school's new "mission." He watches aghast as a megacorp, Intell-Ex, takes over the English department and demands the professors, along with teaching, hawk products and run raffles in the classroom. So, whereas, some says today's colleges have taken to mentally preparing students to be consumers, in this school it is happening literally with classrooms doubling as flea markets.
As a funny and socially resonant tale the novel can't be faulted, though there are places in which it would seem the premises are not fully thought out. For instance, in the book it seems businesses only reason for taking over a college is to increase product sell through, this ignores the fact that in the real world, the business class does have a philosophy of free enterprise that it is intent on preaching as a way to get the populace behind the neo liberal program. In Shatsky's book the new masters are simply intent on increasing consumption, not creating the mental conditions in which people see consumption as the only route to happiness.
However, despite some sociological weaknesses in the underlying argument, the story never misses a beat in providing an entertaining detailing of the smug outrageous of the corporate overlords and the travails of the professors who, because they refuse to organize, suffer alienation, nervous breakdown and moments of ineffectual violence. This is a book filled with rich comedy, muted outrage and some moments of well-earned pathos, in the description of the strains in the hero's marriage, that will keep readers turning the pages and taking notes in this lesson in Apocalypse 101.
Option Three by Joel Shatzky is a book that could only be written by someone with many years of experience with time-serving, incompetent, pompous, sell-out college administrators and adjunct faculty expected to "do more with less" meaning get paid barely enough to buy a jar of peanut butter (house brand)and have no job security whatever. As a professor for 30 years, Shatzky knows whereof he speaks and has made a biting, hilarious satire of the whole apalling mess higher education has become. Anyone with any experience of a college or university is quite likley to think Shatzky wrote this about his or her institution. This is a VERY funny book. If you like the work of Tom Sharpe or the better work of the old Sat. Night Live ensemble or South Park, you will really enjoy Option Three
The premise is interesting and the names of the characters are amusing, but overall it is too off the wall to be really funny. I thought the topic was very pertinent and timely, but the author missed an opportunity for a convincing story by making it too ridiculous to be credible. Bureaucracy at universities and abuse of the system by higher administrators is a subject worth telling. But Shatsky is no Malcolm Bradbury or David Lodge, unfortunately.
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