Contents

Trading Spaces: The Faculty Office in Cross-Cultural Perspective
By Terry Caesar
Faculty workplaces imply faculty roles and identities.

The Costs and Benefits of World-Class Universities
By Philip G. Altbach
Everyone wants to be number one, but at what price?

Open-Source Unionism: New Workers, New Strategies
By Julie M. Schmid
New technologies can support new strategies for organizing faculty.

Contingent Faculty and the New Academic Labor System
By Gwendolyn Bradley
To defend academic values, we need to roll back the reliance on contingent labor.

Taking Teaching Seriously
By Steven M. Cahn
Some guidelines for restoring the professional status of teaching.

Will Universities Lock Out Students?
By Daniel J. Julius
What does unionization look like from the administrative side of the desk?

The Entrepreneurial Adjunct
By John Hess
Contingent faculty become commodities in the new academic labor market.

The Academy in the Age of Digital Labor
By Michelle Glaros
Demands to deliver a high-tech workforce may also deliver a dumbed-down curriculum

Supporting Women and Minority Faculty
By JoAnn Moody
A more diverse academic workforce requires new forms of support.

Tenure Expectations
Cary Nelson

Teaching Evaluations
Franz A. Birgel, Annette Olsen-Fazi, Leonard Plotnicov, Jonathan Rosenthal, Jonathan Eckstein, W. J. McKeachie

Computer Privacy
Bill Shields

Science and Security
Michael E. Green

California State University
Harold Goldwhite

Roger Bowen Appointed AAUP General Secretary

AAUP Director Testifies at Workers' Rights Hearing

AAUP President Outlines Governance Problems

Congress May Penalize Colleges for Tuition Hikes

Tuition Increases at Community Colleges

Oral History Exempted From Federal Oversight

Free-Speech Rights of College Newspapers Contested

University Redefines Academic Freedom

Professor Awarded Damages in Retaliation Case

AAUP Files Brief in Free-Speech Case

AAUP Council Member Remembered

From the Editor: The New Academic Labor System
Lawrence Hanley

Government Relations: The Wisdom Will Survive
By Mark F. Smith

Legal Watch: Contingent Faculty and the Courts
By Donna R. Euben

State of the Profession: The Poetry of Disrespect
By Martin D. Snyder

From the General Secretary: Good Sports
By Mary A. Burgan

Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education
Reviewed by Susanne Lohmann

Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind
Reviewed by Shirley Brice Heath

Refinancing the College Dream: Access, Equal Opportunity, and Justice for Taxpayers
Reviewed by Michael Mumper

Grade Inflation: A Crisis in College Education
Reviewed by Raymond P. Perry

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