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With Baby Boomers now moving into retirement, members of Generation X have come to the forefront of American society. Consequently, understanding Generation X-and the potential impact of the independent, sometimes rebellious spirit that characterizes it-is critical. In Generation X Professors Speak: Voices from Academia, Elwood Watson has assembled a unique collection of thematically arranged essays by academics that offers insights into the issues, conflicts, and triumphs that epitomize this often overlooked generation

Intro -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Women in the Professoriate -- 1.1 Women in the Contemporary Professoriate -- 1.1.1 An International Problem -- 1.1.2 Understanding the Problem -- 1.2 At the Academic Frontier: A Historical Perspective -- 1.3 Gender Equality and Gender Equity -- 1.3.1 Gender Equality -- 1.3.2 Gender Equity -- 1.4 The Problem, the Challenge, and This Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Higher the Fewer -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 International Snapshots -- 2.2.1 United States -- 2.2.2 European Union -- 2.2.3 Nordic Countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) -- 2.2.4 Australia -- 2.2.5 United Kingdom -- 2.2.6 Patterns of "the Higher the Fewer" -- 2.2.7 Women and Multiple Vulnerabilities -- 2.3 The Pipeline Myth -- 2.4 Cultural Influences -- 2.4.1 Merit and the Academic Ladder -- 2.4.2 Masculinities -- 2.4.3 Postfeminism -- 2.4.4 Neoliberalism -- 2.5 Cumulative Disadvantages -- 2.6 New Directions -- References -- Chapter 3: Climbing the Ladder -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Individual Influences -- 3.2.1 Age -- 3.2.2 Race and Ethnicity -- 3.2.3 Confidence and Perceived Capability -- 3.2.4 Academic Motivation -- 3.3 Academic Work Influences -- 3.3.1 Balance and Value of Academic Work -- 3.3.2 Research Productivity -- 3.3.3 Teaching -- 3.3.4 Service and Administrative Duties -- 3.3.5 Academic Employment -- 3.3.6 Career Satisfaction -- 3.4 Academic Environment Influences -- 3.4.1 Institutional and Faculty Climate -- 3.4.2 Promotion -- 3.4.3 Transparency of Decision-Making Processes -- 3.4.4 Isolation -- 3.4.5 Discriminatory Practices -- 3.4.6 The Glass Ceiling and the Glass Cliff -- 3.5 Resource Influences -- 3.6 Social Influences -- 3.6.1 Professional Relationships -- 3.6.2 Work and Family -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References.

"One of the most significant trends in American higher education over the last decade has been the shift in faculty employment from tenured to contingent. Now upwards of 75 percent of faculty jobs are non-tenure track (it had been 25 percent two decades ago.) One of the results of this shift--along with the related degradation of pay, benefits, and working conditions--has been a new push to unionize adjuncts. This book is the first ever to look at this trend. This edited volume brings together scholars who have been involved with these efforts at colleges and universities. They address the context and cause of these efforts. They look at various efforts across the industry to collectively bargain, and they consider the results of those efforts. Finally, the authors consider the impact of those unionization efforts on campus and on the teaching and learning that happens there. Adjunct Higher Ed brings research and case studies to bear on the cost and benefit questions of contingent labor on campus"--

Machine generated contents note:PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS IN A COMPARATIVE CONTEXT --One.Historical Consciousness, Realism, and Public Intellectuals in American Society /Jeremi Suri --Two.American Public Intellectuals and the Early Cold War, or, Mad about Henry Wallace /Andrew J. Bacevich --Three.Public Intellectual in China /Willy Lam --Four.Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Latin America /Enrique Krauze --Five.Intellectual, Culture, and the State: The Experiences and Failures of Enlightenment in the Arab World /Ahmad S. Moussalli --PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS ACROSS DISCIPLINES --Six.Philosopher as Public Intellectual /Patrick Baert --Seven.Economist as ...? The Public Square and Economists /J. Bradford Delong --Eight.Of Mirrors and Media: The Blogger as Public Intellectual /Paul Horwitz --Nine.Science in the Crosshairs: The Public Role of Science and Scientists /Kenneth R. Miller --Ten.Diplomats as Intellectuals: An Unlikely Combination /Gilles Andreani --REFLECTIONS --Eleven.Reckless Minds: Caveat Lector /Mark Lilla --Twelve.Caveat Lilla: On Public Intellectualism in the Twenty-First Century /Michael Zuckert --Thirteen.Public Intellectual as Teacher and Students as Public: Declining and Falling Apart /Patrick J. Deneen --Fourteen.Ethical Imperative for Some Scholars to Be Public Intellectuals and for the Rest to Let Them Do So /Michael C. Desch --Concluding Thoughts: Toward a Typology of Public Intellectuals /Vittorio Hosle.