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Tables of Contents for The Academic Marketplace
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction to the 2001 edition
vii
 
Foreword
xxiii
 
Acknowledgments
xxvi
 
The Background
3
23
Reasons for Research
Some Prior Perspectives
``The Groves of Academe''
Previous Research
The Problem and the Method
26
14
The Unit of Study
The Sample
The Interview Schedule
Entree and Acceptance
Coding and Tabulation
How the Vacancies Occur
40
41
Mobility and Academic Rank
Mobility and Age
Mobility and Institutional Prestige
Involuntary Termination
Voluntary Termination
The Lure of Money
Information Screens
After Departure
Collaboration and Isolation
The Outside Offer
A The oretical Digression
Hazards of Interaction
How Performance Is Evaluated
81
13
``Publish or Perish''
The Career Curve
Labels and Markings
The Strategy of the Department
94
15
Offers and Counter-offers
The Matter of Salary
The Impact of Departure
The Department's Prestige
The Grapevine
Prestige Exchanges
Procedures of Recruitment
109
29
Open and Closed Hiring
The Process in Practice
Festina Lente
Some Recruiting Agents
Hiring Procedures in Perspective
The Merits of Candidates
The Decision-making Procedure
Hazards of the Market
Signing and Sealing
Patterns of Choice
138
20
The Rules of Budgeting
The Specification of Duties
The Decline of Teaching
Motives for Migration
Supplementary Opportunities
Selecting the Replacement
158
24
Who Is the Fairest?
Supply and Demand
The Impact of Replacements
Personnel Poker
Seniority and Merit
Academic Government and the Personnel Process
182
27
Who Participates in Faculty Recruiting?
Some Perspectives on Participation
Stresses Within Departments
Stresses Between Department Members and Chairmen
Stresses Betweeen Deans and Departments
Stresses Between Deans and Higher Administration
The Resolution of Stresses
Some Observations on Power in Universities
Current Trends in the Marketplace
209
10
Discussion and Recommendations
219
38
Problems of the Individual Scholar
Problems of the University Administration
Recommendations
Index
257