Shaping the American faculty in the twentieth century
By: Roger L. Geiger, editor
Series: Perspectives on the history of higher education -- volume 31
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781412856027
Subjects: Universities and colleges; Faculty; History; College teachers; Professional relationships; College teaching; Teacher participation in administration; Higher Education
Description: Beginning in the twentieth century, American faculty increasingly viewed themselves as professionals who were more than mere employees. This volume focuses on key developments in the long process by which the American professoriate achieved tenure, academic freedom, and a voice in university governance.--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Roger L. Geiger; title: University control : the struggle for faculty governance in American universities and the creation of faculty senates / Christian K. Anderson; title: The role of publicity in the formation of the American Association of University Professors, 1913-1919 / Zachary Haberler; title: The arrival of 'up-or-out' tenure : James B. Conant and the 'tempest at Harvard,' 1936-1939 / Richard F. Teichgraeber III; title: Firing Larry Gara : Grove City College, due process, and institutional autonomy / Steve Taaffe; title: Developing the whole student : Edmund G. Williamson, psychologist-sdministrators, and the student affairs movement / Tom McCarthy.