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Academic Careers for the 21st Century: More Options for new Faculty

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Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

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As American colleges and universities move into the twenty-first century, their faculty members now number approximately one million (Kirshstein, Mattheson & Jing, 1997). This expansion in the numbers of faculty has been accompanied by changes in the traditional academic career to accommodate numerous and varied institutional and individual needs. Today, the majority of faculty members no longer occupy tenure-eligible positions. Twenty-eight percent of the full-time faculty members are not eligible for tenure, and 42% are part-time (Gappa, 2000). The proliferation of faculty careers and employment arrangements raises a critically important question: how do colleges and universities make and keep the academic career attractive to the most promising current and potential faculty members?

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Gappa, J.M. (2002). Academic Careers for the 21st Century: More Options for new Faculty. In: Smart, J.C., Tierney, W.G. (eds) Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0245-5_10

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