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The Academic Marketplace (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Academic Marketplace (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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"This volume is a must for anyone interested in academic problems
and will produce the emotion of recognition in those concerned, and
the emotion of surprise in those outside the field."-Los Angeles
Times "Professors Caplow and McGee have given scholarly
respectability to what many a professor has long suspected:
Competition in the academic marketplace is as severe as in the
business world. [Their book] might come to have the same function
for the professor as Machiavelli's work had for ambitious
princes."-Midwest Journal of Political Science The Academic
Marketplace is a straightforward, hard-hitting exposu of the
American university. Caplow and McGee consider all the working
parts of the system and assess their suitability to the professed
purpose. Their report on the actualities, myths, and consequences
of routines thus amounts to an anatomy of an institution-an anatomy
that does not present a pretty picture. We learn, for example, that
the chief criteria used in making appointments are prestige and
compatibility, not teaching ability. The authors describe the
precipitous decline in teaching loads and then explain how this
tendency is related to the new seller's market, on the one hand,
and to the extravagantly indeterminate structure of the university
as an institution, on the other. Not only is the temper judicious,
the facts well gathered and competently marshaled, but the
expression of results is invariably lucid. In a new introduction,
the authors sort out fact from legend and discern trends, they
address the validity of their own research methods and the
applicability of their original findings to today's academic
marketplace. They observe that the essential commodity offered in
the academic marketplace is still the same-the mysterious
intangible called prestige, by which universities, colleges,
departments, disciplines, fields of inquiry, journals, and
ultimately faculty candidates are ranked from high to low, and
raised up and cast down accordingly.
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