The Academic Profession in Transition: Toward a New Social Fiction.

Rice, R. Eugene

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ERIC Number: EJ336724

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

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The Academic Profession in Transition: Toward a New Social Fiction.

Rice, R. Eugene

Teaching Sociology, v14 n1 p12-23 Jan 1986

Examines the working lives of faculty and describes what it means to be an academic professional in present-day U. S. institutions of higher education. Describes assumptions which have typically defined academic scholarship and presents elements for a new conception of the profession. (Author/JDH)

Descriptors: Colleges, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Instruction, Organizational Objectives, Professional Recognition, Professors, Research, Social Change, Universities

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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