December 13, 2010
Faculty Worry That Their Influence Is Waning, a New Book Says
Amy Deputy for The Chronicle
Matthew Woessner and April Kelly-Woessner at Elizabethtown College.
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Amy Deputy for The Chronicle
Matthew Woessner and April Kelly-Woessner at Elizabethtown College.
As universities hire more administrators from outside the faculty ranks, the gulf between those officials and the faculty widens and professors feel less influence on university governance, says a new book on conflict in higher education.
The book, The Still Divided Academy: How Competing Visions of Power, Politics, and Diversity Complicate the Mission of Higher Education, relied on surveys of about 4,060 administrators, faculty members, and students at four-year
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