1st Edition

The Academic Profession The Professoriate in Crisis

Edited By Martin J. Finkelstein, Philip G. Altbach Copyright 1998

    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.