The Academic Profession : The Professoriate in Crisis
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Contemporary Higher Education
ISBN-10
0815326661
ISBN-13
9780815326663
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 1997
Print length
396 Pages
Weight
705 grams
Product Classification:
Education
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Addresses the deep crisis in which the academic profession finds itself with patterns of employment, the tenure system, and changing job expectations. Fifteen articles examine attitudes, the structure of careers, the nature of academic work and its rewards, and the patterns of teaching research and
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?
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