In an Age of Experts
In an Age of Experts

Author: Steven Brint

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0691214530

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Since the 1960s the number of highly educated professionals in America has grown dramatically. During this time scholars and journalists have described the group as exercising increasing influence over cultural values and public affairs. The rise of this putative "new class" has been greeted with idealistic hope or ideological suspicion on both the right and the left. In an Age of Experts challenges these characterizations, showing that claims about the distinctive politics and values of the professional stratum have been overstated, and that the political preferences of professionals are much more closely linked to those of business owners and executives than has been commonly assumed.

The Academic Profession
The Academic Profession

Author: Martin J. Finkelstein

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 1135645264

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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?

Unions and Management
Unions and Management

Author: City Univ. of New York, NY. Bernard Baruch Coll. National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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These proceedings contain 22 papers on how unions and administrations have reacted to fiscal crises, discrimination, and the Americans with Disabilities Act at colleges and universities across the United States. The essays are: (1) "Issues in Labor/Management Negotiations" (Joseph M. Bress); (2) "Academic Unions and the Academic Future" (Irwin H. Polishook); (3) "A Fiscal Fable for Our Times: The Case of San Diego State University" (Linda Ray Pratt); (4) "Facing Hard Times at the City University of New York" (Richard F. Rothbard); (5) "Is There a Future for Higher Education in California: The California State University Response to Crises" (VirginiaAnn Shadwick); (6) "Facing Hard Times: The College at New Paltz, State University of New York" (Alice Chandler); (7) "Facing Hard Times: The University of the District of Columbia" (Tilden J. LeMelle); (8) "Managing in Times of Fiscal Stress: George Mason University, 1990-1992" (Clara Lovett); (9) "Facing Hard Times at Nassau Community College: An Administrative Perspective" (Sean A. Fanelli); (10) "Facing Hard Times at Nassau Community College: A Union Perspective" (Philip Y. Nicholson); (11) "Facing Hard Times at Riverside Community College" (Salvatore G. Rorella); (12) "Monitoring Faculty Productivity in an Era of Fiscal Accountability" (Henry Lee Allen); (13) "What Again? Productivity Issues in Higher Education Today" (Gordon K. Davies); (14) "Equity in the Academic Workplace: The Relative Value of Teaching and Research" (James S. Fairweather); (15) "The Role of Political Action in Higher Education" (Lawrence Gold); (16) "The Role of Politics and Lobbying in Alleviating Higher Education Fiscal Problems" (Lawrence K. Pettit); (17) "Sexual Harassment on Campus and a Union's Dilemma" (Rachel Hendrickson); (18) "A Guided Introduction to the Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act" (Richard L. Hartz); (19) "Americans with Disabilities Act: An Advocacy Perspective" (John Rose); (20) "Complying with the Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act" (John Sorrenti); (21) "Equal Pay for Faculty at 29 SUNY Institutions: Labor/Management Negotiation and Implementation" (Lois Haignere); and (22) "People of Color in Academe: Equity, Discrimination, or Reverse Discrimination?" (Alison M. Konrad). (MDM)