TY  - BOOK
AB  - "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.
AU  - Caplow, Theodore.
CN  - LB1778
CN  - LB1778
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ :
DA  - ©2001.
ID  - 1416314
KW  - College teachers.
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - College teachers.
KW  - Universities and colleges
N1  - Includes index.
N2  - "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.
PB  - Transaction Publishers,
PP  - New Brunswick, NJ :
PY  - ©2001.
SN  - 0765806096
SN  - 9780765806093
T1  - The academic marketplace /
TI  - The academic marketplace /
ER  -