Review
The definitive work of a broad shift now underway.
(
Future Survey 2006)
The authors paint a troubling picture.
(
University Business 2006)
Always readable, occasionally conversational style... keeps you moving along.
(Mary Taylor Huber
Change 2007)
The American Faculty is destined to be a classic... The most thorough and thoughtful analysis of its topic in many years.
(Philip G. Altbach
Journal of Education Planning and Administration 2006)
I found this book to be a significant resource for data on the American professoriate.
(James S. Fairweather
Academe 2007)
Practitioners and researchers looking for a comprehensive overview of the faculty life with an emphasis on changes in the last 40 years will be well served by reading The American Faculty.
(Adrianna Kezar
Journal of College Student Development 2007)
This book and its extensive research appendices are a must-read for scholars who study the academic profession... It will be important for provosts, deans, department chairs, and those who have previously been involved in the 'faculty roles and rewards' movement to read this book and interpret its trends and implications for their own campuses and plans for faculty hiring, professional development, and reward systems.
(KerryAnn O'Meara and Kate Hudson
Review of Higher Education 2007)
An impressive piece of work, a key reading for anyone interested in the state of academic work—especially, but not only, in the United States—and where it might be headed.
(Malcolm Tight
Studies in Higher Education 2007)
The American Faculty is an extensive examination of the condition of the American academic profession.
(Taggart Smith
Teaching Theology and Religion 2008)
The American Faculty is a worthy addition to the expanding field of higher education studies.
(William Bruneau
CAUT Bulletin 2008)
Jack Schuster and Martin Finkelstein's The American Faculty cannot be approached with anything but interest.
(Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis
Academic Matters 2008)
In-depth, insightful, with a masterful handling of the relevant data, The American Faculty provides the most comprehensive overview of the status of the academic profession that is available.
(Jay Chronister, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia )
From the Back Cover
Higher education is becoming destabilized in the face of extraordinarily rapid change. The composition of the academy's most valuable asset—the faculty—and the essential nature of faculty work are being transformed. Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein describe the transformation of the American faculty in the most extensive and ambitious analysis of the American academic profession undertaken in a generation. This volume depicts the scope and depth of the transformation, combining empirical data drawn from three decades of national higher education surveys. At once startling and disturbing, The American Faculty provides the context for interpreting these developments as part of a larger structural evolution of the U.S. higher education system.
" The American Faculty is destined to be a classic... The most thorough and thoughtful analysis of its topic in many years."— Journal of Education Planning and Administration
"A significant resource for data on the American professoriate."— Academe
"This book and its extensive research appendices are a must-read for scholars who study the academic profession... It will be important for provosts, deans, department chairs, and those who have previously been involved in the 'faculty roles and rewards' movement to read this book and interpret its trends and implications for their own campuses and plans for faculty hiring, professional development, and reward systems."— Review of Higher Education
"Practitioners and researchers looking for a comprehensive overview of the faculty life with an emphasis on changes in the last 40 years will be well served by reading The American Faculty."— Journal of College Student Development
"An impressive piece of work... key reading for anyone interested in the state of academic work."— Studies in Higher Education
Jack H. Schuster is a professor of education and public policy at Claremont Graduate University. Martin J. Finkelstein is a professor of higher education at Seton Hall University.
