Faculty and Faculty Issues in Colleges and Universities

This Reader provides articles about faculty issues covering a wide range of subjects, philosophical perspectives, and methods. It discusses demographic trends and addresses such topics as faculty roles, obligations, and career issues; the relation of the development of higher education as an institution to the development of the professional life of faculty; and how scholars approach research questions from diverse and emerging perspectives and with heterogeneous methodologies. The Reader concludes with issues that faculty and institutions are likely to face in the future.