Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Fall Staff in Postsecondary Institutions, 1995
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Fall Staff in Postsecondary Institutions
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Author:
Publisher: Bureau of Census
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Provides tables and graphs of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Each section has an introductory text. Each table and graph has a source note. Appendix 1 includes guides to sources of statistics, State statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts.
Publisher: Bureau of Census
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Provides tables and graphs of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. Each section has an introductory text. Each table and graph has a source note. Appendix 1 includes guides to sources of statistics, State statistical abstracts, and foreign statistical abstracts.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Author: Claitor's Publishing Division
Publisher: Claitor's Pub Division
ISBN: 9781579805975
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Publisher: Claitor's Pub Division
ISBN: 9781579805975
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
The Questions of Tenure
Author: Richard P. Chait
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029348
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how tenure works? In this unique book, Richard Chait and his colleagues offer the results of their research on key empirical questions. Are there circumstances under which faculty might voluntarily relinquish tenure? When might new faculty actually prefer non-tenure track positions? Does the absence of tenure mean the absence of shared governance? Why have some colleges abandoned tenure while others have adopted it? Answers to these and other questions come from careful studies of institutions that mirror the American academy: research universities and liberal arts colleges, including both highly selective and less prestigious schools. Lucid and straightforward, The Questions of Tenure offers vivid pictures of academic subcultures. Chait and his colleagues conclude that context counts so much that no single tenure system exists. Still, since no academic reward carries the cachet of tenure, few institutions will initiate significant changes without either powerful external pressures or persistent demands from new or disgruntled faculty.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029348
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how tenure works? In this unique book, Richard Chait and his colleagues offer the results of their research on key empirical questions. Are there circumstances under which faculty might voluntarily relinquish tenure? When might new faculty actually prefer non-tenure track positions? Does the absence of tenure mean the absence of shared governance? Why have some colleges abandoned tenure while others have adopted it? Answers to these and other questions come from careful studies of institutions that mirror the American academy: research universities and liberal arts colleges, including both highly selective and less prestigious schools. Lucid and straightforward, The Questions of Tenure offers vivid pictures of academic subcultures. Chait and his colleagues conclude that context counts so much that no single tenure system exists. Still, since no academic reward carries the cachet of tenure, few institutions will initiate significant changes without either powerful external pressures or persistent demands from new or disgruntled faculty.
The American Faculty
Author: Jack H. Schuster
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402076
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Higher 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 surfaced, organized around a globalized, knowledge-based economy, powerful privatization and market forces, and stunning new information technologies. These developments have transformed the higher education enterprise in ways barely imaginable in generations past. At the heart of that transformation, but largely invisible, has been a restructuring of academic appointments, academic work, and academic careers—a reconfiguring widely decried but heretofore inadequately described. This volume depicts the scope and depth of the transformation, combing empirical data drawn from three decades of national higher education surveys. The authors' portrait, at once startling and disturbing, provides the context for interpreting these developments as part of a larger structural evolution of the national higher education system. They outline the stakes for the nation and the challenging work to be done.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402076
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Higher 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 surfaced, organized around a globalized, knowledge-based economy, powerful privatization and market forces, and stunning new information technologies. These developments have transformed the higher education enterprise in ways barely imaginable in generations past. At the heart of that transformation, but largely invisible, has been a restructuring of academic appointments, academic work, and academic careers—a reconfiguring widely decried but heretofore inadequately described. This volume depicts the scope and depth of the transformation, combing empirical data drawn from three decades of national higher education surveys. The authors' portrait, at once startling and disturbing, provides the context for interpreting these developments as part of a larger structural evolution of the national higher education system. They outline the stakes for the nation and the challenging work to be done.
Education Statistics Quarterly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The status of academic libraries in the United States results from the 1996 academic library survey with historical comparisons
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428926356
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428926356
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Status of Academic Libraries in the United States
Author: Margaret Werner Cahalan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Digest of Education Statistics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Contains information on a variety of subjects within the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment, finances, Federal funds for education, libraries, international education, and research and development.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Contains information on a variety of subjects within the field of education statistics, including the number of schools and colleges, enrollments, teachers, graduates, educational attainment, finances, Federal funds for education, libraries, international education, and research and development.