The Profs They Are A-Changin'

Autor/in	Goldstein, Evan R.
Titel	The Profs They Are A-Changin'
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 46, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Baby Boomers; Faculty; Retirement; Political Attitudes; Politics of Education; Teacher Attitudes; Aging (Individuals) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Academic Staff; Lehrkörper; Pensionierung; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Lehrerverhalten; Aging; Altern
Abstract	According to a recent article in The New York Times, the political makeup of academe may be changing. In 2005 more than 54 percent of full-time faculty members in the United States were older than 50, compared with just 22.5 percent in 1969. Patricia Cohen, a reporter for the "Times," couples that with another intriguing fact: Recent studies suggest that younger faculty members tend to hold more moderate political views than their liberal elder colleagues. So will the impending retirement of aging baby boomers bring about less-left-leaning campuses? Cohen writes that there are already signs that partisanship is declining. The sort of polemical exuberance that has long characterized political debate on campus--and about campus politics--is being replaced with civil dialogue. This article presents some of the views of various individuals on the impact of the aging of faculty. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10