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Title:

Shaping the American faculty / Roger L. Geiger, editor.

Publisher:

Transaction Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

175 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Universities and colleges--United States--History--History--20th century.
College teachers--United States--History--20th century.
College teachers--History--United States--History--20th century.
College teaching--United States--History--20th century.
Teacher participation in administration--United States--History--20th century.
Education, Higher--United States--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Geiger, Roger L., 1943- editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction / Roger L. Geiger -- University control : the struggle for faculty governance in American universities and the creation of faculty senates / Christian K. Anderson -- The role of publicity in the formation of the American Association of University Professors, 1913-1919 / Zachary Haberler -- The arrival of 'up-or-out' tenure : James B. Conant and the 'tempest at Harvard, ' 1936-1939 / Richard F. Teichgraeber III -- Firing Larry Gara : Grove City College, due process, and institutional autonomy / Steve Taaffe -- Developing the whole student : Edmund G. Williamson, psychologist-administrators, and the student affairs movement / Tom McCarthy.

Summary:

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.

Series:

Perspectives on the history of higher education ; volume thirty-one.

ISBN:

1412856027 (alk. paper)
9781412856027 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)914300944

LCCN:

2014034990

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)