The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers

by Martin J. Finkelstein and Jack H. Schuster

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801891035
• ISBN13: 9780801891038
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"