Analyzes the post-Soviet academic profession, focusing on the challenges it has to meet. Discusses the system of academic appointments and promotion, remuneration, motivation, evaluation of faculty, and academic freedom. (EV)

Analyzes the current status of the academic profession in Bulgaria at a time of difficult socioeconomic transition. After providing a brief overview of the historical development of Bulgarian academia, discusses faculty working conditions, the career path within the profession, and the legal framework for the professoriate. Highlights future key…

Discusses changes in the academic profession in Poland, asserting that it has arrived at a stage of far-reaching autonomy and uncertain individual career prospects. Describes new laws intended to change the structure of recruitment, promotions, remuneration, working conditions, and appointments. Suggests that the sudden passage from an elite…

Uses data from a study of organizational socialization and induction in universities to critique social practice theory and further develop a model illustrating these dynamics in university life. Offers a case study of one unusual sub-departmental workgroup in an English university that comprised both deaf and hearing academics; such a case study…

Academic managers in state bureaucracies are changing their expectations of faculty roles in terms of faculty productivity in: training students for "high tech, high cost, high return" jobs; securing more research monies; serving the public by linking research to industrial revitatlization. The SUNY-Buffalo experience is described.…

This paper presents the findings of an investigation of the academic appraisal program at the University of Ulster (Northern Island), used to evaluate the performance of faculty. The evidence reveals inconsistency, tension, and uncertainty about the program and its effects. (MDM)

A study investigated the ways in which changes in state law concerning intellectual property from 1969-89 has helped shape the climate for commercialization of science in a public university, and affected the terms of professional labor for faculty. Significant changes in the faculty-institution relationship and the government-school relationship…

Implications of the growth of university-based contract research are examined, including moral and ethical issues, legal aspects, ownership of research results, staff rights, researcher status, publication, authority, responsibility, social justice, and conflicts between teaching and research. Eleven suggestions for successful contract research…

The views of 24 Australian university faculty interviewed about the way higher education's recession has affected their work reveals a widening gap between academic ideals and institutional realities. Comments focus on: teaching, students, research, colleagues, career prospects, the university, and the quality of academic life. (MSE)

Under continuing financial stringency, the university administration negotiates concessions with full-time faculty to satisfy their interests and maintain the stability of the system. Part-timers, excluded from the collegium, remain peripheral to these arrangements. (Author/MLW)

Analysis of the status, workload, and economics of Canada's large part-time university faculty workforce suggests that the academic labor force is hierarchically divided between full- and part-time faculty with radically different work processes and institutional treatment. Part-time teachers compensate for fiscal deficits and have degraded and…