The academic marketplace /
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| Author / Creator: | Caplow, Theodore. |
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, c2001. |
| Description: | xxv, 262 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4482225 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the 2001 edition
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1.. The Background
- Reasons for Research
- Some Prior Perspectives
- "The Groves of Academe"
- Previous Research
- 2.. The Problem and the Method
- The Unit of Study
- The Sample
- The Interview Schedule
- Entree and Acceptance
- Coding and Tabulation
- 3.. How the Vacancies Occur
- Mobility and Academic Rank
- Mobility and Age
- Mobility and Institutional Prestige
- Involuntary Termination
- Voluntary Termination
- The Lure of Money
- Information Screens
- After Departure
- Collaboration and Isolation
- The Outside Offer
- A Theoretical Digression
- Hazards of Interaction
- 4.. How Performance Is Evaluated
- "Publish or Perish"
- The Career Curve
- Labels and Markings
- 5.. The Strategy of the Department
- Offers and Counter-offers
- The Matter of Salary
- The Impact of Departure
- The Department's Prestige
- The Grapevine
- Prestige Exchanges
- 6.. Procedures of Recruitment
- Open and Closed Hiring
- The Process in Practice
- Festina Lente
- Some Recruiting Agents
- Hiring Procedures in Perspective
- The Merits of Candidates
- The Decision-making Procedure
- Hazards of the Market
- Signing and Sealing
- 7.. Patterns of Choice
- The Rules of Budgeting
- The Specification of Duties
- The Decline of Teaching
- Motives for Migration
- Supplementary Opportunities
- 8.. Selecting the Replacement
- Who Is the Fairest?
- Supply and Demand
- The Impact of Replacements
- Personnel Poker
- Seniority and Merit
- 9.. Academic Government and the Personnel Process
- 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
- The Resolution of Stresses
- Some Observations on Power in Universities
- 10.. Current Trends in the Marketplace
- 11.. Discussion and Recommendations
- Problems of the Individual Scholar
- Problems of the University Administration
- Recommendations
- Index