includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition...vii

PART I The Academy and the Academic

1. Robert E. Gleckner, A Taxonomy of Colleges and Universities...3
2. Samuel Schuman, Small Is...Different...17
3. Stanley M. Hauerwas, The Morality of Teaching...29
4. Emily Toth, Women in Academia...38
5. Nellie Y. McKay, Minority Faculty in (Mainstream White) academia...48

PART II Some issues in the Academy Today
Peter Burian, On Being a Political Animal in the Academic Zoo...65
2. Craufurd D. Goodwin, Fads and Fashions on Campus: Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization...73
8. Ronald R. Butters, Free Speech and Academic Freedom...81
9. Judith S. White, Anticipating and Avoiding Misperceptions of Harassment...91
10. P. Aarne Vesilind, The Responsible Conduct of Academic Research...104

PART III Academic Employment

11. Henry M. Wilbur, On Getting a Job...115
12. Sudhir Shetty, The Job Market: An Overview...128
13. Matthew W. Finkin, The Tenure System...136
14. Craufurd D. Goodwin, Some Tips on Getting Tenure...150
15. A. Leigh DeNeef, Academic Salaries, Benefits, and Taxes...158

PART IV Teaching and Advising
16. Norman L. Christensen, The Nuts and Bolts of Running a lecture course...179
17. Anne Firor Scott, Why I Teach by Discussion...187
18. Bernice R. Sandler, The Classroom Climate: Chilly for Women?...192
19. Elizabeth Studley Nathans, New Faculty Members and Advising...199
20. Ronald R. Butters and Christopher B. Kennedy, The Problems of Special Admission Undergraduates ...211

PART V Funding Academic Research

21. Judith K. Argon, Securing Funding from Federal Sources...219
22. Fred E. Crossland, New Academics and the Quest for Private Funds...236

PART VI Publishing Research
23. Louis J. Budd, On Writing Scholarly Articles...249
24. Boyd R. Strain, Publishing in Science...263
25. Richard C. Rawson, The Scholar and the Art of Publishing...273
26. Jerry D. Campbell, Effects of the Networked Environment on Publishing and Scholarship...286

PART VII Academic Communities and Administrations
27. A. Kenneth Pye, University Governance and Autonomy: Who Decides What in the University...297
28. Joel Colton, The Role of the Department in the Groves of Academe...315
29. Philip Stewart, The Academic Community...334

Selected Further Readings...341

Contributors...343

Index...345