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The Academic Marketplacereviewed by William Woodward - 2003 Title: The Academic Marketplace Author(s): Theodore Caplow and Reece J. McGee Publisher: Transaction Publishing, Piscataway ISBN: 0765806096, Pages: 262, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Why would someone
read, much less review, a book reporting on empirical research into
the university conducted nearly 50 years ago? After all, the
authors conducted their “faculty mobility study” of why
and how university faculty change jobs in 1954-56, before the
advent of faculty unionization and its later demise under
Yeshiva, and well before current recognition of the academic
entrepreneur and “market based” approaches to higher
education. While the authors’ new introduction helps
place the work into perspective, the research itself cannot, of
course, be fresh enough to have continuing validity as
science in 2002. But the reasons to read the book in 2002
have little to do with science and far more to do with its place as
literature (or even folklore) about the academy, and the questions
it inadvertently raises about today’s scene.
The book is about the dynamics of faculty job changes in higher
education — why faculty change jobs, why and how
universities make hiring and termination decisions, etc. In
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- William Woodward
Temple University E-mail Author WILLIAM WOODWARD is Professor of Law, Temple University. Professor Woodward’s recent publications include "Neoformalism in a Real World of Forms" Wisconsin Law Review (2001, 971); "Contractual Choice of Law: Legislative Choice in an Era of Party Autonomy", 54 S.M.U. Law Review (2001, 697); and a book review of Lionel Lewis’s When Power Corrupts: Academic Governing Boards in the Shadow of the Adelphi Case, Academe (July - August, 2001). He has been President of the Temple University Faculty Senate and is currently a member of Committee T (Academic Governance) of the American Association of University Professors.
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