The Crisis of the American Academic Workforce
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https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2008.52.8035Keywords:
Academic Profession, North America, United States of AmericaAbstract
Key to an improvement in so labor intensive an industry as higher education is its workforce: the professoriate. The American academic profession is, however, widely acknowledged to be in criticaland deterioratingcondition: demographic aging, remuneration, the high dropout rates in doctoral programs, lengthening time-to-degree, an increase of non-tenure track appointment. This change is having a profound, and largely unscrutinized, impact on American higher education.Downloads
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2008-05-09
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Altbach, P., & Finkelstein, M. (2008). The Crisis of the American Academic Workforce. International Higher Education, (52). https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2008.52.8035
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The Academic Profession
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