Protecting the Passion of Scholars in Times of Change

Autor/in	Neumann, Anna
Titel	Protecting the Passion of Scholars in Times of Change
Quelle	In: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 41 (2009) 2, S.10-15 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-1383
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Change; Longitudinal Studies; Faculty; Tenure; Academic Rank (Professional); Value Judgment; College Faculty; Career Choice; Motivation; Social Support Groups; Teacher Administrator Relationship; Career Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsreform; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Academic Staff; Lehrkörper; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Werturteil; Fakultät; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Berufsentwicklung
Abstract	The author explored questions about personal meaning in professors' careers and in their scholarly subjects through a three-year study of 40 recently tenured university professors at four U.S. universities--faculty who spanned a wide diversity of fields: arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, and applied and professional fields. The author probed how these professors chose the topics they came to call their own, what those topics meant to them, and how they struggled to find room to pursue them in post-tenure lives and careers that left little room for the work they loved. The scholars she interviewed, all one to five years post-tenure, chose the academic career out of a deep desire to understand the subjects of study that beckoned to them through the rigors of graduate training, the challenges and insecurities of the pre-tenure years, the "big test" of the tenure review, and often post-tenure workloads and campus cultures that did not support the scholarly learning that meant a great deal to them intellectually and personally. In order to provide a nuanced sense of what defines scholarly commitment, the author offers in this article an extended set of comments from an interview with Richard Marin (pseudonym), a newly tenured associate professor of physics at Hope State University (pseudonym), an urban public research university. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10