Academic Profession The Professoriate in Crisis

Name: Academic Profession The Professoriate in Crisis
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ISBN: 9780815326663

ISBN-10: 0815326661

ISBN-13: 9780815326663

Edition: 1998 (Reprint)

Authors: Philip G. Altbach, Martin J. Finkelstein

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The purpose of this series is to bring together the main currents in today's higher education and examine such crucial issues as the changing nature of education in the U.S., the considerable adjustment demanded of institutions, administrators, the faculty; the role of Catholic education; the remarkable growth of higher education in Latin America, contemporary educational concerns in Europe, and more. Among the many specific questions examined in individual articles re: Is it true that women are subtly changing the academic profession? How is power concentrated in academic organizations? How successful are Latin America's private universities? What is the correlation between higher…

Book details

List price: $225.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/1/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.33" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Volume Introduction




Historical Context


Problems and Possibilities: The U.S. Academic Profession



The Emergence of the Modern Academic Role




The Structure of Academic Careers


The Academic Career as a Developmental Process: Implications for Higher Education



Employment Profiles of Part-Timers




Academic Culture and Socialization


Professorial Attitudes--An International Survey



The Ties of Association



Conceptualizing Faculty Socialization



Tenure: A Summary, Explanation, and "Defense"




Rewards and the Academic Marketplace


The Flow of Faculty to and from Academe



Change in the Academic Marketplace: Faculty Mobility in the 1980s



The Value of Teaching, Research, and Service




Faculty at Work: Teaching, Research, and Service


New Faculty as Teachers



Faculty Research



Perspectives on the Professional Socialization of Women Faculty: A Case of Accumulative Disadvantage?



Are Women Changing the Nature of the Academic Profession?



Entry into Academia: Effects of Stratification, Geography and Ecology



Charting the Changes in Junior Faculty: Relationships Among Socialization, Acculturation, and Gender



Acknowledgments