The old university and the new

Academic Questions

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 39-45

  Kernan, Alvin B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 5444220531     PISSN: 08954852     EISSN: 19364709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12129-002-1074-3     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. These and other figures are taken from The Digest of Education Statistics published online (nces. ed. gov. pubs 2000) by the National Council of Educational Statistics.
2. "As Soar at Harvard, Nearing a Majority, " New York Times, 22 November 2001, 32.
3. Diane Ravitch, "Defining Literacy Downward, " New York Times, 28 August 1996, 19.
4. Richard Chait and Cathy Trower, "Professors at the Color Line, " New York Times, Op-Ed page, 10 September 2001. Chait is a professor of higher education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Trower is a senior researcher.
5. Courtney Leatherman, "Part-Timers Continue to Replace Full-Timers on College Faculties, " Chronicle of Higher Education, 25 January 2000, A18. "We're not looking at episodic changes; we're looking at historical changes. And if left unchecked and unreformed, these changes threaten the university. " It should be noted that Leatherman's numbers include only the part time faculty, not lecturers off the tenure ladder and the graduate students who teach. The number of teachers who are not part of a permanent faculty is therefore much larger than the 43 percent figure Leatherman gives. In two-year institutions even just the part-time faculty by her count reaches 67 percent.