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.
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