The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era

In an academy squeezed hard by formidable pressures, what is the future of the faculty?

Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession itself, which managed to attract the best and brightest educators from around the world while expanding th...