Education & Reference, Sociology, Higher & Continuing Education, Education Theory, Certification & Development, Specialty Boutique, Education, Professional Development 

The academic profession, like many others, is rapidly being transformed. This book explores the current challenges to the profession and their broad implications for American higher education.Examining what professors do and how academia is changing, contributors to this volume assess current and potential threats to the profession. Leading scholars in sociology and higher education explore such topics as structural and cognitive change, socialization and deviance, career development, and professional autonomy and regulation. A comprehensive analysis of the significant questions facing this crucial profession, The American Academic Profession will be welcomed by students and scholars as well as by administrators and policy makers concerned with the future of the academy. 

The professoriate's perilous path / Jack H. Schuster -- Optimizing research and teaching: the bifurcation of faculty roles at research universities / Roger L. Geiger -- Focus on the classroom: movements to reform college teaching and learning, 1980-2008 / Steven Brint -- Whose educational space? Negotiating professional jurisdiction in the high-tech academy / Gary Rhoades -- American academe and the knowledge-politics problem / Neil Gross -- The socialization of future faculty in a changing context: traditions, challenges, and possibilities / Ann E. Austin -- Professionalism in graduate teaching and mentoring / John M. Braxton, Eve Proper, Alan E. Bayer -- Scholarly learning and the academic profession in a time of change / Anna Neumann -- Anomie in the American academic profession / Joseph C. Hermanowicz -- Academic freedom, professional autonomy, and the State / Sheila Slaughter -- Codes of commerce: the uses of business rhetoric in the American academy, 1960-2000 / Daniel Lee Kleinman, Jacob Habinek, Steven P. Vallas -- The meaning of regulation in a changing academic profession / Erin Leahey, Kathleen Montgomery -- Professional control in the complex university: maintaining the faculty role / Teresa A. Sullivan -- All that glittered was not gold: rethinking American higher education's golden age, 1945-1970 / John R. Thelin. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.