The Academic Profession

Author : Ulrich Teichler,Akira Arimoto,William K. Cummings
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400761551

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The Changing Academic Profession by Ulrich Teichler,Akira Arimoto,William K. Cummings Pdf

This book provides an overview on the major findings of a questionnaire survey of academic profession in international perspective. More than 25,000 professors and junior staff at universities and other institutions of higher education at almost 20 countries from all over the world provide information on their working situation, their views and activities. The study “The Changing Academic Profession” is the second major study of its kind, and changes of views and activities are presented through a comparison of the findings with those of the earlier study undertaken in the early 1990s. Major themes are the academics’ perception of their societal and institutional environments, the views on the major tasks of teaching, research and services, their professional preferences and actual activities, their career, their perceived influence and their overall job satisfaction. Emphasis is placed on the influence of recent changes in higher education: the internationalisation and globalisation, the increasing expectation to provide evidence of the relevance of academic work, and finally the growing power of management at higher education institutions. Overall, the academics surveyed show that worldwide discourses and trends in higher education put their mark on the academic profession, but differences by country continue to be noteworthy. Academics consider themselves to be more strongly exposed to mechanism of regulations, incentives and sanctions as well as various assessments than in the past; yet their own freedom, and responsibilities and influence shape their identity more strongly and are reflected in widespread professional satisfaction.

Author : Barbara M. Kehm,Ulrich Teichler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400746145

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The Academic Profession in Europe: New Tasks and New Challenges by Barbara M. Kehm,Ulrich Teichler Pdf

This book is the first of several with the results of a collaborative European project supported by the European Science Foundation on changes in the academic profession in Europe (EUROAC). It provides a short description of the ESF EUROHESC programme and the particular forms of international collaborative research projects which are funded under the umbrella of this programme. It then outlines the EUROAC project. This project has chosen three foci (governance, professionalisation, academic careers) to analyse changes in the work of the academic profession. The first results in the form of in-depth literature reviews constitute the content of the book. These eight literature reviews about the state of the art of existing research feature the various dimensions of the overall theme. A particular emphasis is put on factors leading to changes in the work tasks of the academic profession in Europe and how the academic profession is coping with these new challenges. Thus, the book provides a state of the art account of existing research about the following themes: main results of previous studies on the academic profession; the academic profession and their interaction with new higher education professionals; professional identities in higher education; extending work tasks: civic mission and sustainable development; academic careers in academic markets; the changing role of academics in the face of rising managerialism; the influence of quality assurance, governance, and relevance on the satisfaction of the academic profession.

Author : P. Altbach,G. Androushchak,Y. Kuzminov,M. Yudkevich,L. Reisberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230369795

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The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession by P. Altbach,G. Androushchak,Y. Kuzminov,M. Yudkevich,L. Reisberg Pdf

This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.

Author : Burton R. Clark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0520059409

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The Academic Profession by Burton R. Clark Pdf

Author : Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421402543

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The American Academic Profession by Joseph C. Hermanowicz Pdf

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.

Author : Tatiana Fumasoli,Gaële Goastellec,Barbara M. Kehm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319107202

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Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives by Tatiana Fumasoli,Gaële Goastellec,Barbara M. Kehm Pdf

This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academics’ perceptions of their professional contexts. The book demonstrates a growing diversity within the academic profession and new professional roles inhabiting a space which is neither located in the core business of teaching and research nor at the top level management and leadership. The new higher education professionals tend to be important change agents within the higher education institutions not only fulfilling service and bridging functions but also streamlining academic work to make a contribution to the reputation and competitiveness of the institution as a whole. Based on interviews with academic staff, this book explores the situation in eight European countries: Austria, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Romania, and Switzerland.

Author : Jeffrey J. McDonnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119642176

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Navigating an Academic Career: A Brief Guide for PhD Students, Postdocs, and New Faculty by Jeffrey J. McDonnell Pdf

Demystifies the academic career path with practical advice With the number of people being awarded PhDs growing far more rapidly than the supply of academic jobs, those at an early-career stage must think strategically in order to be competitive and successful. Navigating an Academic Career: A Brief Guide for PhD students, Post docs, and New Faculty is a concise and conversational manual that guides readers through starting their academic journey, surviving the demands of their first academic position, and thriving in academia and beyond. Volume highlights include: Firsthand perspective on the characteristics of a successful academic Guidance on interviewing, negotiating, branding, and other essential soft skills Tips for effective time management and writing high-impact research papers Insights into developing leadership skills and mentoring others The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals.

Author : John S. Levin,Marie C. Martin,Ariadna I. López Damián
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781438479118

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University Management, the Academic Profession, and Neoliberalism by John S. Levin,Marie C. Martin,Ariadna I. López Damián Pdf

This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over seven years with academics in the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors analyze the experiences of four types of academics as they respond and adjust to the demands of neoliberalism: part-time faculty, full-time faculty, department heads and chairs, and deans. While critical of this phenomenon, University Management, the Academic Profession, and Neoliberalism also recognizes that neoliberalism cannot be driven out of academia easily or without serious consequences, such as a perilous loss of revenue and public support. Instead, it works to shed light on the complex—sometimes contradictory, sometimes complementary—relationship between market values and academic values in the roles and behaviors of faculty and administrators. In providing an unprecedented in-depth, data-based look at the management of the academic profession, the book will be of interest not only to educational researchers but also to professionals throughout higher education.

Author : Burton R. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : College teachers
ISBN : UOM:39076001296057

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The Academic Life by Burton R. Clark Pdf

Author : Martin J. Finkelstein,Philip G. Altbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135645335

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The Academic Profession by Martin J. Finkelstein,Philip G. Altbach Pdf

The purpose of this series is to bring together the main currents in today's higher education and examine such crucial issues as the changing nature of education in the U.S., the considerable adjustment demanded of institutions, administrators, the faculty; the role of Catholic education; the remarkable growth of higher education in Latin America, contemporary educational concerns in Europe, and more. Among the many specific questions examined in individual articles re: Is it true that women are subtly changing the academic profession? How is power concentrated in academic organizations? How successful are Latin America's private universities? What is the correlation between higher education and employment in Spain? Is minority graduate education in the U.S. producing the desired results?

Author : Frank F. Furstenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226066240

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Behind the Academic Curtain by Frank F. Furstenberg Pdf

More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, a keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future, whether inside or outside of academia. Life with a PhD can begin to resemble an unsolvable maze. In Behind the Academic Curtain, Frank F. Furstenberg offers a clear and user-friendly map to this maze. Drawing on decades of experience in academia, he provides a comprehensive, empirically grounded, and, most important of all, practical guide to academic life. While the greatest anxieties for PhD candidates and postgrads are often centered on getting that tenure-track dream job, each stage of an academic career poses a series of distinctive problems. Furstenberg divides these stages into five chapters that cover the entire trajectory of an academic life, including how to make use of a PhD outside of academia. From finding the right job to earning tenure, from managing teaching loads to conducting research, from working on committees to easing into retirement, he illuminates all the challenges and opportunities an academic can expect to encounter. Each chapter is designed for easy consultation, with copious signposts, helpful suggestions, and a bevy of questions that all academics should ask themselves throughout their career, whether at a major university, junior college, or a nonacademic organization. An honest and up-to-date portrayal of how this life really works, Behind the Academic Curtain is an essential companion for any scholar, at any stage of his or her career.

Author : Robert L. Ostergard, Jr.,Stacy B. Fisher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442635630

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Kickstarting Your Academic Career by Robert L. Ostergard, Jr.,Stacy B. Fisher Pdf

Kickstarting Your Academic Career is a primer on the common scholastic demands that social sciences students face upon entering college or university. Based on the challenges that instructors most often find students need help with, the authors offer practical advice and tips on topics such as how to communicate with instructors, take notes, read a textbook, research and write papers, and write successful exams. The succinct writing and clear organization make this an essential reference for first-year students as they encounter post-secondary work for the first time, and a useful refresher for upper-year students looking to refine their skills.

Author : Rebecca Boden,Debbie Epstein,Jane Kenway
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781849202152

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Building Your Academic Career by Rebecca Boden,Debbie Epstein,Jane Kenway Pdf

Building Your Academic Career encourages you to take a proactive approach to getting what you want out of academic work whilst being a good colleague. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a career, the routes in and the various elements that shape current academic working lives. In the second half of the book we deal in considerable detail with how to write a really good CV (résumé) and how best to approach securing an academic job or promotion.

Author : Karen Kelsky
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780553419429

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The Professor Is In by Karen Kelsky Pdf

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Author : Ulrich Teichler,William K. Cummings
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319160801

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Forming, Recruiting and Managing the Academic Profession by Ulrich Teichler,William K. Cummings Pdf

This book focuses on the changes in academic careers and their implications for job attachment and the management of academic work. Against the background of an ageing profession, with different demands on academic staff, increasing insecurity, accountability and internationalisation, it discusses important, common themes in detail. This book examines such aspects as the nature of academic careers and recent changes in careers, changing biographies, rewards of academic work such as income and job satisfaction, internationalisation of the academy, and the organisation and management of academic work sites. This book is the second of two books highlighting findings from research on the academic profession, notably, the Changing Academic Profession Study and the European project supported by the European Science Foundation on changes in the academic profession in Europe (EUROAC). An adapted version of the CAP questionnaire has been used to carry out the survey in those countries that had not been involved before in the CAP survey. Altogether 19 countries are covered by the CAP project and an additional seven European countries are covered by EUROAC.