Faculty Careers and Work Lives: A Professional Growth Perspective: Ashe Higher Education Report

by Aimee LaPointe Terosky, KerryAnn O'Meara, Anna Neumann

This volume reviews and synthesizes recent research on faculty demographics, appointment types, work life, and reward systems, as well as major theoretical perspectives useful to researchers who study faculty work, careers, and professional development. In doing so, it advances and challenges current dialogue on faculty careers, notably by exploring a "narrative of constraint" that underlies much contemporary research and reform in higher education...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470439718
• ISBN13: 9780470439715
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"