1st Edition

The Academic Profession The Professoriate in Crisis

Edited By Martin J. Finkelstein, Philip G. Altbach Copyright 1998
    396 Pages
    by Routledge

    396 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 education and employment in Spain? Is minority graduate education in the U.S. producing the desired results?

    ContentsVolume Introduction, Philip G. Altbach and Martin J. Finkelstein 1. Historical Context Problems and Possibilities: The U.S. Academic Profession, Philip G. Altback The Emergence of the Modern Academic Role, Martin J. Finkelstein 2. The Structure of Academic Careers The Academic Career as a Developmental Process: Implications for Higher Education, Roger G. Baldwin and Robert T. Blackburn Employment Profiles of Part-Timers, Judith M. Gappa and David W. Leslie. 3. Academic Culture and Socialization Professorial Attitudes-An International Survey, Philip G. Altbach and Lionel S. Lewis The Ties of Association, Burton R. Clark Conceptualizing Faculty Socialization, William G. Tierney and Robert A. Rhoades Tenure: A Summary, Explanation, and Defense 4. Rewards and the Academic Marketplace The Flow of Faculty to and from Academe, Howard R. Bowen and Jack H. Schuster Change in the Academic Marketplace: Faculty Mobility in the 1980s, Dolores L. Burke The Value of Teaching, Research, and Service, James S. Fairweather 5. Faculty at Work: Teaching, Research, and Service New Faculty as Teachers, Robert Boice Faculty Research, Robert T. Blackburn and Janet H. Lawrence Perspectives on the Professional Socialization of Women Faculty: A Case of Accumulative Disadvantage? Shirley M. Clark and Mary Corcoran Are Women Changing the Nature of the Academic Profession? Ana Maria Turner Lomperis Entry into Academia: Effects of Stratification, Geography and Ecology, Robert McGinnis and J. Scott Long Charting the Changes in Junior Faculty: Relationships Among Socialization, Acculturation, and Gender, Anne Reynolds Acknowledgments

    Biography

    Finkelstein, Martin J.; Altbach, Philip G.