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1. The Balancing Act: Gendered Perspectives in Faculty Roles and Work Lives
by Susan J Bracken (Editor), Jeanie K Allen (Editor), Diane R Dean (Editor)
* Of interest to all women in faculty ranks* Extensive academic marketingWhy are women not entering academic careers at a rate proportional to their ... More
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2. The Balancing ACT
by Jeanie K Allen (Editor), Susan J Bracken (Editor), Diane R Dean (Editor)
* Of interest to all women in faculty ranks* Extensive academic marketingWhy are women not entering academic careers at a rate proportional to their ... More
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3. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
by Frank Donoghue
What makes the modern university different from any other corporation?" asked Columbia's Andrew Delbanco recently in the New York Times. "There is ... More
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4. Post-Tenure Faculty Development: Building a System of Faculty Improvement and Appreciation
by Jeffrey W Alstete, Aehe, J Alstete J
"National attention on posttenure review begs the question of what the underlying concern really is with posttenure faculty accountability and ... More
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5. Affirmed Action: Essays on the Academic and Social Lives of White Faculty Members at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
by Lenoar Foster (Editor), Andrea L Miller (Editor), Janet A Guyden (Editor)
Here for the first time is a wide-ranging collection of essays by white faculty who explore the unique goals, successes, and challenges they ... More
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7. Community College Faculty: Overlooked and Undervalued
by Barbara K Townsend, Professor Susan B Twombly
Public community colleges in the United States enroll approximately 6 million students, about 45 percent of all undergraduates. These students are ... More
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8. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture
by Professor Deborah L Rhode
"In Pursuit of Knowledge" offers a unique portrait of the pursuit of status in academic life, combining meticulous research with elegant and ... More
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9. Chalk Lines: The Politics of Work in the Managed University
by Martin, Randy Martin (Editor), Randy Martin (Editor)
The increasing corporatization of education has served to expose the university as a business--and one with a highly stratified division of labor. In ... More
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10. The American College Town
Winner of the J.B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers
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11. A Handbook for Faculty Development
by William H Bergquist, Steven R Phillips
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13. Privilege and Diversity in the Academy
by Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault (Editor), Francis A Maher (Editor)
Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through ... More
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14. Privilege and Diversity in the Academy
by Francis A Maher (Editor), Mary Kay Thompson Tetreault (Editor)
Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system. Through ... More
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15. Faculty Compensation Systems
by Terry P Sutton, Peter J Bergerson, Adrianna J Kezar (Foreword by)
In the last few years, higher education institutions have begun to transform their operations from an academic to a business model, justifying their ... More
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16. The Vitality of Senior Faculty Members: Snow on the Roof -- Fire in the Furnace
by Carole J Bland, William H Bergquist
By the year 2000, 50 percent of full-time faculty will be over 55, and 68 percent will be over 50. Just when many universities and colleges in ... More
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18. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
by Jerome Karabel
Drawing on decades of research, Karabel shines a light on the ever-changing definition of "merit" in college admissions, showing how it shaped--and ... More
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19. Success on the Tenure Track: Five Keys to Faculty Job Satisfaction
by Cathy Ann Trower
Landing a tenure-track position is no easy task. Achieving tenure is even more difficult. Under what policies and practices do faculty find greater ... More
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20. Faculty Career Paths: Multiple Routes to Academic Success and Satisfaction
by Gretchen M Bataille, Betsy E Brown
Changing demographics and a new emphasis on economic development, internationalization, and technology, are changing the ways in which university ... More
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21. Wannabe U: Inside the Corporate University
by Gaye Tuchman
Based on years of observation at a large state university, "Wannabe U" tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational ... More
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22. Faculty in New Jobs: A Guide to Settling In, Becoming Established, and Building Institutional Support
by Robert J Menges
Each year, hundreds of academics begin new faculty appointments. Some are just launching new careers, while others are advancing to new campuses. As ... More
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24. Traveling Through the Boondocks: In and Out of Academic Hierarchy
by Terry Caesar
What is it like to be a faculty member at a university in the United States that enjoys no reputation or distinction? Traveling through the Boondocks ... More
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25. Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids; And What We Can Do about It
by Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus
In this provocative investigation, a renowned sociologist and "New York Times" writer make an incisive case that the American way of higher education ... More
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