This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over seven years with academics in the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors analyze the experiences of four types of academics as they respond and adjust to the demands of neoliberalism: part-time faculty, full-time faculty, department heads and chairs, and deans. While critical of this phenomenonUniversity Management, the Academic Profession, and Neoliberalism also recognizes that neoliberalism cannot be driven out of academia easily or without serious consequences, such as a perilous loss of revenue and public support. Instead, it works to shed light on the complex—sometimes contradictory, sometimes complementary—relationship between market values and academic values in the roles and behaviors of faculty and administrators. In providing an unprecedented in-depth, data-based look at the management of the academic profession, the book will be of interest not only to educational researchers but also to professionals throughout higher education.

Preface

Introduction: The Management of the Academic Profession

1. Full-time Tenure Track Faculty: Academic Professional Identity and Managerialism

2. Non-Tenure Track Faculty: Professionals with Commitment and Self-Worth in an Exploitative Environment

3. Department Chairs: Dual Roles, Dual Identities

4. Academic Deans: Double Agents of Two Institutional Logics and Two Institutional Domains

5. Higher Education Management in the U.S. University

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