Titlebook: Scholars in the Changing American Academy; New Contexts, New Ru William K. Cummings,Martin J. Finkelstein Book 2012 Springer Science+Busine

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The Internationalization of the US Academy: A Disciplinary Perspective,hapter explores the factors that dispose US academics to see their work as internationally linked. The data suggest that internationalization in teaching activities may be relatively independent of internationalization in research activities and furthermore that internationalization as an . characte

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Internationalization of Work Content and Professional Networks,aborate with international colleagues in research and publication. In both 1992 and 2007, American professors emerged near the bottom of the distribution of professors from 19 nations in both of these areas—in 1992 sharing the bottom with Russia and Brazil and in 2007 sharing the bottom with China,

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Historical and Comparative Perspectives on the Faculty Role in Governance, report consolidating their influence in the area of faculty appointments and promotion/tenure—their historical sphere of influence—maintaining their slightly ebbing influence in the area of academic programs and conceding (confirming) their limited role in budgetary matters and administrator select

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Declining Institutional Loyalty,h in 1992 and 2007. But they express a sharp decline in their sense of affiliation with their employing institutions over this same 15-year period. Perceptions of the quality of the physical conditions and the level of human support (secretaries, service personnel) for the conduct of work are linked

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,The “Glass Ceiling” Effect: Does It Characterize the Contemporary US Academy?,progress, but that widely identified barriers to the pursuit of academic careers continue to exist. Notable is the tendency of women and minorities to be disproportionately hired for contingency appointments that are less likely to open up opportunities for promotion and tenure.

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