June 12, 2009

U.S. Faculty Members Feel a Lack of Clout, International Survey Finds

By Peter Schmidt

Compared with their peers in many other nations, faculty members at four-year colleges in the United States stand out in their insularity from the international academic community and their sense of a lack of power over their institutions' leadership and budgets, according to the unpublished results of a study involving surveys of faculty members around the world.

The international study also found that the United States is seen as losing its advantage over many nations in terms of

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