January-February 2004

Features

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.