Faculty entrepreneurialism and the challenge to undergraduate education at research universities

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 739-760

  Lee, Jenny J ^a   Rhoads, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

academic labor; college faculty; entrepreneurialism; faculty research; faculty work; research universities; teaching; undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

EID: 5444235714     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:RIHE.0000044229.70457.ca     Document Type: Article

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