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The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era
Martin J. Finkelstein
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Description for The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era
Hardback. Written for professors, adjuncts, graduate students, and academic, political, business, and not-for-profit leaders, this data-rich study offers a balanced assessment of the risks and opportunities posed for the American faculty by economic, market-driven forces beyond their control. Num Pages: 584 pages, 72, 72 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNKH; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 238 x 43. Weight in Grams: 916.
Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession itself, which managed to attract the best and brightest educators from around the world while expanding the influence of the faculty factor throughout the academic realm. But in the past two decades, escalating costs and intensifying demands for efficiency have resulted in a wholesale reshaping of the academic workforce, one marked by skyrocketing numbers ... Read more
Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession itself, which managed to attract the best and brightest educators from around the world while expanding the influence of the faculty factor throughout the academic realm. But in the past two decades, escalating costs and intensifying demands for efficiency have resulted in a wholesale reshaping of the academic workforce, one marked by skyrocketing numbers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
915g
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421420929
SKU
V9781421420929
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About Martin J. Finkelstein
Martin J. Finkelstein is a professor of higher education at Seton Hall University. Valerie Martin Conley is the dean of the College of Education at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Jack H. Schuster is professor emeritus of education and public policy and a senior research fellow at Claremont Graduate University. Schuster and Finkelstein are the coauthors of The New ... Read more
Reviews for The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era
Scholars active in the study of higher education may find this book very informative not only for the plentiful information and data provided, but also for the authors' in-depth analysis of the evolution of the place of faculty in academia and beyond.
Giulio Marini
Higher Education
Giulio Marini
Higher Education