Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe (S U N Y SERIES, FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION)

Tierney, William G.; Bensimon, Estele Mara

ISBN 10: 0791429776 / ISBN 13: 9780791429778

Published by State Univ of New York Pr, 1996

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Synopsis:

Research on the organizational culture in higher education affirms that congruent cultures are better than fragmented ones, and that managing culture is an oxymoron. Such analyses often lead to the assumptions that unity of purpose is essential and leadership is impossible. This book reframes rather than suppresses these notions, and by respecting the differences, builds a commonality between them.

Using data on faculty socialization in academe, the authors consider how the work of cultural leadership becomes interpretation and facilitation rather than management. Through a series of interviews using experimental forms of ethnographic presentation, Tierney and Bensimon articulate salient problems of tenure-track faculty, especially women and faculty of color, and address the issue of individuals voluntarily leaving the tenure-track. They offer a new paradigm to delineate ways in which the academic community can help socialize younger faculty, and honor differences more readily.

About the Author: William G. Tierney is Professor and Director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California. Estela Mara Bensimon is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Southern California.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Promotion and Tenure: Community and ...
Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: very_good