The Organization of Academic WorkTransaction Publishers, 1994 M01 1 - 310 pages |
Contents
BUREAUCRACY AND SCHOLARSHIP | 1 |
The Growth of Science and Education | 2 |
Administrative Structure and Academic Work | 8 |
Problems Under Investigation | 13 |
The Role of Research | 18 |
THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES | 20 |
Data Collection | 21 |
Variables | 28 |
Dilemmas of Higher Education | 152 |
BUREAUCRATIC AND PROFESSIONAL AUTHORITY | 158 |
Centralization of Educational Matters | 161 |
Appointment Power | 167 |
The Presidents Authority | 178 |
Academic Standing and Decentralization | 184 |
INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION | 189 |
Specialization | 190 |
Regression Analysis | 34 |
The Role of Theory | 45 |
ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE | 48 |
Differentiation | 49 |
Administration | 60 |
Testing Theoretical Assumptions | 66 |
Implications | 74 |
RECRUITMENT | 78 |
Recruiting Qualified Faculty | 79 |
Attracting Good Students | 86 |
Channels of Upward Mobility | 92 |
The Dilemma of Size | 99 |
ORIENTATIONS TO ACADEMIC WORK AND INSTITUTION | 101 |
Research and Teaching | 103 |
Structural Effects of Colleague Climate | 109 |
Allegiance to Local Institution | 119 |
The Status of Research | 128 |
STUDENTS | 131 |
Selectivity | 132 |
Ability of Freshmen | 138 |
FacultyStudent Contacts | 145 |
Institutionalizing New Disciplines | 198 |
Creating and Abolishing Departments | 207 |
Dilemmas of Scientific Advancement | 213 |
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE | 217 |
College Dropout | 220 |
Continuation Rates | 228 |
Faculty Research Productivity | 237 |
Education and Scholarship | 245 |
DIMENSIONS OF ACADEMIC DIFFERENTIATION | 249 |
Effects of Various Resources | 250 |
The Process of Differentiation | 258 |
Academic Dilemmas and Stratification | 270 |
Bureaucracy and Scholarship | 279 |
Sampling and Weighting Procedure | 281 |
Variable Definitions Basic Statistics and Sources | 285 |
Matrix of Simple Correlations | 291 |
Variables and Simple Correlations for Individual Faculty Members | 297 |
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