The American Faculty : The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers

Johns Hopkins University Press

The American FacultyThe Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers\nAuthor(s): Jack H. Schuster, Martin J. Finkelstein\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801891038, 978-0801891038\nSynopsis\nHigher 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 new order has.