The academic marketplace / Theodore Caplow, Reece J. McGee ; foreword by Jacques Barzun with a new introduction by the authors.
Caplow, Theodore.
2001
LB1778 .C3 2001 (Mapit)
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Title
The academic marketplace / Theodore Caplow, Reece J. McGee ; foreword by Jacques Barzun with a new introduction by the authors.
Author
Caplow, Theodore.
ISBN
0765806096 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780765806093 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Publication Details
New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, ©2001.
Language
English
Description
xxv, 262 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
LB1778 .C3 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.1/2/0973
Summary
"The Academic Marketplace is a straightforward, hard-hitting expose 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."--Jacket.
Note
Includes index.
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Reasons for Research
Some Prior Perspectives
"The Groves of Academe"
Previous Research
2. Problem and the Method 26
Unit of Study
Sample
Interview Schedule
Entree and Acceptance
Coding and Tabulation
3. How the Vacancies Occur 40
Mobility and Academic Rank
Mobility and Age
Mobility and Institutional Prestige
Involuntary Termination
Voluntary Termination
Lure of Money
Information Screens
After Departure
Collaboration and Isolation
Outside Offer
A Theoretical Digression
Hazards of Interaction
4. How Performance Is Evaluated 81
"Publish or Perish"
Career Curve
Labels and Markings
5. Strategy of the Department 94
Offers and Counter-offers
Matter of Salary
Impact of Departure
Department's Prestige
Grapevine
Prestige Exchanges
6. Procedures of Recruitment 109
Open and Closed Hiring
Process in Practice
Festina Lente
Some Recruiting Agents
Hiring Procedures in Perspective
Merits of Candidates
Decision-making Procedure
Hazards of the Market
Signing and Sealing
7. Patterns of Choice 138
Rules of Budgeting
Specification of Duties
Decline of Teaching
Motives for Migration
Supplementary Opportunities
8. Selecting the Replacement 158
Who Is the Fairest?
Supply and Demand
Impact of Replacements
Personnel Poker
Seniority and Merit
9. Academic Government and the Personnel Process 182
Who Participates in Faculty Recruiting?
Some Perspectives on Participation
Stresses Within Departments
Stresses Between Department Members and Chairmen
Stresses Between Deans and Departments
Stresses Between Deans and Higher Administration
Resolution of Stresses
Some Observations on Power in Universities
10. Current Trends in the Marketplace 209
Problems of the Individual Scholar
Problems of the University Administration.

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