ABSTRACT

The three chapters in Part III examine how the changing landscape of higher education has impacted upon different sets of individuals, namely academic faculty, administrators and providers of professional expertise, and librarians respectively. In each case the professional dimension features prominently in the detailed analyses. Understandably, individual nuances are more muted, although all of the authors in this volume fully recognize that they can become paramount, especially at critical moments such as in relation to decisions about tenure or promotion or adjustment to role; location within an institution; and adjustments to measurement of performance or other changes to (or threats to) terms of employment that an individual considers likely to be significant or to have potentially negative, destabilizing, or disruptive consequences.