This text draws on the perspectives of faculty's around the world to determine significant trends in how professors view teaching and research. At colleges and universities throughout the world, there are professors who devote most of their time to research activities, and others who prefer teaching. Using data collected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's international survey of the academic profession, this study found that there are international similarities in how teaching-oriented faculty view higher education differently than their research-oriented colleagues,...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This text explores the organizational reponses of professional schools and colleges to pressures, demands, requirements, expectations and incentives related to diversity. As such, it takes a view of post-secondary institutions (and their various academic and administrative units) as open systems engaged in complex interrelationships with other organizations, such that key commitments, priorities, interests, agendas and strategies are directed and shaped by an array of forces.