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Gumport, Patricia J. – Journal of Higher Education, 1993
A discussion of college and university retrenchment based on interviews with 40 faculty and 20 administrators at 2 research universities looks at programs threatened with termination as terrains contested among academic fields, where wide divergences in professional/discipline-based power become evident. Results appeared to have less to do with…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Competition, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines