The American academic profession : transformation in contemporary higher education / edited by Joseph C. Hermanowicz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hermanowicz, Joseph C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

United States.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Universities and colleges--United States.

Universities and colleges.

Educational technology--United States.

Educational technology.

Physical Description:

xviii, 371 pages : graphs ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

The Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Summary:

This collection arises from a conference at the U. of Georgia organized around the following theme: "Whither the American academic profession? Its changing forms and functions." Some but not all of the 13 contributions were presented at the conference. Editor Hermanowicz (sociology, U. of Georgia) provides a prefatory essay summarizing trends (for example, a dramatic rise in the number of non-tenure track positions) and the far-reaching implications of institutional and cultural changes in academia, including the importance of making the career rewarding enough to attract and keep the most competent scholars and teachers. Arrangement is in sections on structural and cognitive change, socialization and deviance, experience of the academic career, autonomy and regulation, and contemporary and historical views. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The professoriate's perilous path / Jack H. Schuster

Optimizing research and teaching: the bifurcation of faculty roles at research universities / Roger L. Geiger

Focus on the classroom: movements to reform college teaching and learning, 1980-2008 / Steven Brint

Whose educational space? Negotiating professional jurisdiction in the high-tech academy / Gary Rhoades

American academe and the knowledge-politics problem / Neil Gross

The socialization of future faculty in a changing context: traditions, challenges, and possibilities / Ann E. Austin

Professionalism in graduate teaching and mentoring / John M. Braxton, Eve Proper, Alan E. Bayer

Scholarly learning and the academic profession in a time of change / Anna Neumann

Anomie in the American academic profession / Joseph C. Hermanowicz

Academic freedom, professional autonomy, and the State / Sheila Slaughter

Codes of commerce: the uses of business rhetoric in the American academy, 1960-2000 / Daniel Lee Kleinman, Jacob Habinek, Steven P. Vallas

The meaning of regulation in a changing academic profession / Erin Leahey, Kathleen Montgomery

Professional control in the complex university: maintaining the faculty role / Teresa A. Sullivan

All that glittered was not gold: rethinking American higher education's golden age, 1945-1970 / John R. Thelin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801899775

080189977X

9780801899782

0801899788

OCLC:

671237332