Research Catalog

Title

The new academic generation : a profession in transformation / Martin J. Finkelstein, Robert K. Seal, Jack H. Schuster.

Author

Finkelstein, Martin J., 1949-

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

• Seal, Robert K.
• Schuster, Jack H.

Description

xiii, 236 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"American colleges and universities are poised at the edge of a remarkable transformation. But while rapid technological changes and increasingly intense competition for funding are widely recognized as signs of a new era, there has also been an unprecedented though silent demographic change in the profile of the faculty. In The New Academic Generation, higher education researchers Martin Finkelstein, Robert Seal, and Jack Schuster focus on the changing face of academe, as women, foreign-born, and minority scholars enter the professoriate in larger numbers and as alternatives to full-time tenure-eligible appointments take hold. Looking at who will teach at American colleges and universities in the future and examining their roles and responsibilities, the authors argue that the new generation will usher in an era of dramatic change with profound long-term implications. Finkelstein, Seal, and Schuster base their analysis on the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics. The largest national survey of faculty in a quarter-century, it provides detailed analyses permitting the authors to describe the characteristics of the relatively new entrants into academic careers, and to compare them with their more senior colleagues. The authors present their analysis in 88 tables, describe their findings, examine future issues for teaching-learning communities, and provide strategies for strengthening the faculty--and thereby higher education itself. The challenges posed by this new academic generation, they conclude, will be one of the defining issues for American colleges and universities for years to come"--Jacket.

Subject

• College teachers > United States
• College teaching > United States
• College teachers
• College teaching
• Hochschullehrer
• Sozialer Wandel
• Hoger onderwijs
• Academici
• Veranderingsprocessen
• United States
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-226) and index.

Contents

1. Context: The Faculty at a Crossroads -- 2. Taking the Measure of a New Academic Generation -- 3. Demographic Contours of the New Academic Generation -- 4. The Preparation and Careers of the New Academic Generation -- 5. The New Academic Generation at Work -- 6. The Attitudes and Values of the New Academic Generation -- 7. The New Academic Generation and the Future of American Higher Education -- App. A. Extended Tables -- App. B. Selected Comparisons of New- and Senior-Faculty Cohorts -- App. C. 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty: Faculty Questionnaire.

ISBN

• 0801858860
• 9780801858864

LCCN

97049368

OCLC

• ocm37993590
• 37993590
• SCSB-8903356

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library