The American Academic Profession

"This book covers well the issues and problems of the U.S. academic profession in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Contemporary Science

The tale of the American academic profession-that large company of men and women, unprecedented in its size and diversity-needs to be written. A large historical literature on America's colleges and universities exists, but much of it is unashamedly hagiographic. On the other hand, more critical works see American universities as being in dire n...