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-Wo
Discusses changes in the demographic composition of American college and university faculties in recent years, drawing on the findings of the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty conducted by
Higher education is becoming destabilized in the face of extraordinarily rapid change. The composition of the academy's most valuable asset—the faculty—and the essential nature of faculty work are bei
