ABSTRACT

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?

part I|45 pages

Historical Context

chapter 1|18 pages

Problems and Possibilities

the US academic profession

part II|38 pages

The Structure of Academic Careers

chapter 3|17 pages

The Academic Career as a Developmental Process

Implications for Higher Education

part III|49 pages

Academic Culture and Socialization

chapter 8|6 pages

Tenure

A Summary Explanation, and “Defense”

part 4|54 pages

Rewards and the Academic Marketplace

chapter 10|7 pages

An Overview of the 1987 Ashe Distinguished Dissertation

Change in the Academic Marketplace: Faculty Mobility in the 1980s

part V|194 pages

Faculty at Work

chapter 12|24 pages

New Faculty as Teachers

chapter 13|67 pages

Faculty Research

chapter 14|24 pages

Perspectives on the Professional Socialization of Women Faculty

A Case of Accumulative Disadvantage?

chapter 16|24 pages

2 Entry into Academia

Effects of Stratification, Geography and Ecology

chapter 17|16 pages

Charting the Changes in Junior Faculty

Relationships among Socialization, Acculturation, and Gender