The Professoriate Profile of a Profession /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Welch, Anthony (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Higher Education Dynamics, 7
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

What does it mean to be an academic in the twenty first century? Clearly, there is no one answer to this question, as the diversity evident in the following chapters reveals. Elite research universities often tend to join with others of their kind, so that a professor from an elite US institution ma...