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The Faculty Factor - Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era (Hardcover)
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The Faculty Factor - Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era (Hardcover)
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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 post-World 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 of contingent faculty members.
Extending Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein's richly
detailed classic The American Faculty: The Restructuring of
Academic Work and Careers, this important book documents the
transformation of the American faculty-historically the leading
global source of Nobel laureates and innovation-into a diversified
and internally stratified professional workforce. Drawing on
heretofore unpublished data, the book provides the most
comprehensive contemporary depiction of the changing nature of
academic work and what it means to be a college or university
faculty member in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
The rare higher education study to incorporate multinational
perspectives by comparing the status and prospects of American
faculty to teachers in the major developing economies of Europe and
East Asia, The Faculty Factor also explores the redistribution of
academic work and the ever-more diverse pathways for entering into,
maneuvering through, and exiting from academic careers. Using the
tools of sociology, anthropology, and demography, the book charts
the impact of waves of technological change, mass globalization,
and the severe financial constraints of the last decade to show the
impact on the lives and careers of those who teach in higher
education. The authors propose strategic policy recommendations to
extend the strengths of American higher education to retain
leadership in the global economy. 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.
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