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THE CHANGING ACADEMIC MARKET is the inside story and scholarly
analysis of a leading sociology department's search, during the
mid-1970s, to fill several faculty positions. This was attempted in
the middle of the fundamental changes to the U.S. university and
college market that began in the late 1960s. That sea change is
exposed with candid self-awareness and examined in its practical
effects on faculty hiring procedure, treatment of candidates,
affirmative action, a shrinking market, professors' relations with
each other and their political stances, and recommendations for
other academics in various departments who are undergoing a similar
recruitment process. A reviewer at the time of its initial
publication in hardcover (Harvard's Nathan Glazer) called this book
"a unique study ... placed within the context of a wise and subtle
analysis of the changes that have taken place in the past decade in
the academic market," analyzed for the first time with "care and
attention to detail and sound research procedures." Another expert
in the field (CUNY's Dorothy Helly) commented that this is "a rich
text on a crucial aspect of higher education ... the recruitment
process among dramatically increased numbers of Ph.D.'s who include
a growing proportion of women and minorities"; she added that the
approach used "constituted a radical departure from sole reliance
on recommendations from a network of professional colleagues," the
usual way of soliciting and selecting candidates. Now part of the
new academic library of Quid Pro Books, this book is a classic
research study and hallways account of faculty hiring -- of
continued value to researchers, teaching applicants, and present
faculty hiring committees. The original pagination from the
previous hardcover edition is embedded into the text, for
continuity and referencing purposes.
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