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The Faculty Factor
In an academy squeezed hard by formidable pressures, what is the future of the faculty? Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession itself, which managed to attract the best and brightest educators from around the world while expanding the influence of the "faculty factor" throughout the academic realm. But in the past two decades, escalating costs and intensifying demands for efficiency have resulted in a wholesale reshaping of the acade...
The New Academic Generation
Higher education researchers Martin Finkelstein, Robert Seal, and Jack Schuster focus on the changing face of American academe, as women, foreign-born, and minority scholars enter the professorate in large numbers. Considering this trend, the authors argue that the next generation will usher in an era of dramatic changes and that the long-term implications of these changes will be profound. 7 illustrations.
The American Faculty
Higher education is becoming destabilized in the face of extraordinarily rapid change. The composition of the academy's most valuable asset—the faculty—and the essential nature of faculty work are being transformed. Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein describe the transformation of the American faculty in the most extensive and ambitious analysis of the American academic profession undertaken in a generation. A century ago the American research university emerged as a new organizational form animated by the professionalized, discipline-based scholar. The research university model persisted through two world wars and greatly varying economic conditions. In recent years, however, a ...
Strategic Governance
Included in this discussion are examples of institutions that have successfully instituted "strategic governance." Factors that contribute to, or detract from, an effective linkage between planning and governance are identified. The authors propose guidelines for implementing strategic governance which they derive from case studies and other sources.
American Professors
This book examines the impact of recent upheavals in higher education on the American professorate. Focusing on such factors as declining enrollment, declining governmental support, and massive shifts in enrollment among academic disciplines, the authors conclude that academics are in an imperiled profession.
Off-Track Profs
An investigation of non-tenure-track faculty at ten elite research universities and the implications for undergraduate education, institutional governance, and American preeminence in higher education. Much attention has been paid to the increasing proportion of non-tenure-track faculty—adjuncts, lecturers, and others—in American higher education. Critics charge that universities exploit “contingent faculty” and graduate students, engaging in a type of bait and switch to attract applicants (advertising institutional standing based on distinguished faculty who seldom teach undergraduates), and as a result provide undergraduates with an inadequate educational experience. This book, by ...
Governing Tomorrow's Campus
This collection of original essays brings to center stage new ideas about who shares--and will share--in governing colleges and universities. The chapters cover a range of issues. Part One surveys the evolution of academic governance, from the middle ages to the present. Part Two offers theoretical perspectives on the unique structures and dynamics of academic organizations, including fresh insights into the complexity and diversity of higher education. Part Three examines the changing place of faculty in governance--and challenges to the traditional notions of the professiorate's role in running the institution. Part Four looks at developments in unionization, changes in management styles and participation, and the impact of grievance systems on academic organizations. Part Five considers a range of external forces on the quality of governance, including relations between campus and alumni, donors, and political entities.
Enhancing Faculty Careers
Enhancing Faculty Careers examines the key factors that bear on professional growth, including the role of professional schools in the preparation of prospective faculty, career consulting, wellness programs, employee assistance programs to help deal with substance abuse, and strategies for instituting early retirement programs.
Encountering the Unionized University
Monograph on collective bargaining by university teachers and its implications for higher education in the USA - discusses views for and against faculty trade unionism. References.
The Faculty Factor
In an academy squeezed hard by formidable pressures, what is the future of the faculty? Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession itself, which managed to attract the best and brightest educators from around the world while expanding the influence of the "faculty factor" throughout the academic realm. But in the past two decades, escalating costs and intensifying demands for efficiency have resulted in a wholesale reshaping of the acade...
