July-August 2008

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July-August 2008

Volume 94, Number 4

Contents

Features

How I Learned to Love Athletic Recruits
By Mike Sacken
Mentoring athletes changed my approach to education.

First-Generation Students, Social Class, and Literacy
By Theron P. Snell
If you read, you will succeed.

Maria’s Rainbow
By Scott M. Fisher
False promises to a working student.

The Twenty-First-Century Professoriate
By William M. Plater
What does the faculty look like?

The Academic Generation Gap
By Anna Dronzek
The biggest divide may be by rank.

Small Colleges and New Faculty Pay
By Paul Marthers and Jeff Parker
Follow the market?

Bias Resistance at Suny
By Jamie F. Dangler
Family leave for all.

The Two Cultures of Academe
By Kevin Mattson and Joseph Bernt
The proof is in the pay.

Who Profits When You Publish?
By K. A. Wallace
Electronic availability changes everything.

Writing What I Want in a Publish-or-Perish World
By Kevin Brown
Not all schools have the same expectations. Hooray!

AAUP at Work

New General Counsel Martha West
By Michelle N. Sweetman

2008 Election Results
By Robin K. Burns

Nota Bene

Academics and Ghostwriters?
By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans

Excluded Scholar Granted Visa
By Gwendolyn Bradley

Columns

Book Reviews

Be Afraid
Reviewed By Christian K. Anderson

Something for Everyone
Reviewed by Grant J. Rich

Being Liberal
Reviewed by Rebecca Ropers-Huilman

Annual Meeting

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