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A New Academic Marketplace
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Author : Dolores L. Burke
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1988-11-21
A New Academic Marketplace written by Dolores L. Burke and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-11-21 with Education categories.
This book examines faculty mobility in the 1980s from the perspective of process and market environment, and makes comparisons between current research findings and those reported by Theodore Caplow and Reece McGee in 1958 in The Academic Marketplace. The present study, like the earlier one, encompasses faculty recruitment, including search and selection procedures and effect, and the circumstances of termination, such as denial of tenure, voluntary resignation, retirement, and death. The research findings are based on data obtained from 306 faculty members in personal and telephone interviews conducted during the period from December 1985 to April 1986 and mail response; the sample universities were six of those used in the earlier survey. The findings are discussed in comparison to human resource management in the nonacademic sector and implications for the practice of human resource management in academic settings, contributing to an organizational culture. An important feature of this book is the introduction of management techniques and management thinking at the departmental level that did not exist in the 1950s. The author contends, however, that new management strategies appear to have little effect on the recruitment and termination processes, and that these processes have remained traditionally based while the organization is changing under environmental influences. This unique and timely work will be of interest to a broad academic population, providing new insights into the academic world for anyone interested in the present state of higher eduation, and will be a welcome addition in the research and study of sociology, nonprofit management, and university organization.
The Academic Marketplace
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Author : Theodore Caplow
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-12-01
The Academic Marketplace written by Theodore Caplow and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with Education categories.
"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.
The Academic Marketplace
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Author : Theodore Caplow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
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The Academic Marketplace
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Author : Theodore Caplow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
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Universities In The Marketplace
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Author : Derek Bok
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-14
Universities In The Marketplace written by Derek Bok and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-14 with Business & Economics categories.
Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. He shows how such ventures are undermining core academic values and what universities can do to limit the damage. Commercialization has many causes, but it could never have grown to its present state had it not been for the recent, rapid growth of money-making opportunities in a more technologically complex, knowledge-based economy. A brave new world has now emerged in which university presidents, enterprising professors, and even administrative staff can all find seductive opportunities to turn specialized knowledge into profit. Bok argues that universities, faced with these temptations, are jeopardizing their fundamental mission in their eagerness to make money by agreeing to more and more compromises with basic academic values. He discusses the dangers posed by increased secrecy in corporate-funded research, for-profit Internet companies funded by venture capitalists, industry-subsidized educational programs for physicians, conflicts of interest in research on human subjects, and other questionable activities. While entrepreneurial universities may occasionally succeed in the short term, reasons Bok, only those institutions that vigorously uphold academic values, even at the cost of a few lucrative ventures, will win public trust and retain the respect of faculty and students. Candid, evenhanded, and eminently readable, Universities in the Marketplace will be widely debated by all those concerned with the future of higher education in America and beyond.
The Academic Marketplace
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Author : Theodore Caplow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
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A New Academic Marketplace
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Author : Dolores L. Burke
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1988-11-21
A New Academic Marketplace written by Dolores L. Burke and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-11-21 with Education categories.
This book examines faculty mobility in the 1980s from the perspective of process and market environment, and makes comparisons between current research findings and those reported by Theodore Caplow and Reece McGee in 1958 in The Academic Marketplace. The present study, like the earlier one, encompasses faculty recruitment, including search and selection procedures and effect, and the circumstances of termination, such as denial of tenure, voluntary resignation, retirement, and death. The research findings are based on data obtained from 306 faculty members in personal and telephone interviews conducted during the period from December 1985 to April 1986 and mail response; the sample universities were six of those used in the earlier survey. The findings are discussed in comparison to human resource management in the nonacademic sector and implications for the practice of human resource management in academic settings, contributing to an organizational culture. An important feature of this book is the introduction of management techniques and management thinking at the departmental level that did not exist in the 1950s. The author contends, however, that new management strategies appear to have little effect on the recruitment and termination processes, and that these processes have remained traditionally based while the organization is changing under environmental influences. This unique and timely work will be of interest to a broad academic population, providing new insights into the academic world for anyone interested in the present state of higher eduation, and will be a welcome addition in the research and study of sociology, nonprofit management, and university organization.
Physicians In The Academic Marketplace
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Author : Dolores L. Burke
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1992
Physicians In The Academic Marketplace written by Dolores L. Burke and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Education categories.
In this seminal study, Burke examines medical faculty recruitment and termination policies and procedures. Her findings are based on personal interviews with 300 faculty members and on mail responses from 49 others. She provides detailed information on constraining factors in the medical academic marketplace, the impact of public accountability on medical school faculty, and the essential character of medical schools as research institutions and providers of community services. Burke concludes that recruitment procedures must be formulated more strategically, that administrative structures need to be revised, and that the clinical base of medical research must be supported and maintained.
The Marketplace Of Ideas Reform And Resistance In The American University Issues Of Our Time
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Author : Louis Menand
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2010-12-06
The Marketplace Of Ideas Reform And Resistance In The American University Issues Of Our Time written by Louis Menand and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-06 with Education categories.
"Crisp and illuminating . . . well worth reading."—Wall Street Journal The publication of The Marketplace of Ideas has precipitated a lively debate about the future of the American university system: what makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects are required? Why are so many academics against the concept of interdisciplinary studies? From his position at the heart of academe, Harvard professor Louis Menand thinks he's found the answer. Despite the vast social changes and technological advancements that have revolutionized the society at large, general principles of scholarly organization, curriculum, and philosophy have remained remarkably static. Sparking a long-overdue debate about the future of American education, The Marketplace of Ideas argues that twenty-first-century professors and students are essentially trying to function in a nineteenth-century system, and that the resulting conflict threatens to overshadow the basic pursuit of knowledge and truth.
The Academic Marketplace
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Author : Theodore Caplow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The Academic Marketplace written by Theodore Caplow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.