Table of Contents

Executive Summary Foreword Acknowledgments Setting the Stage A Brief History of the “Attack on Tenure” Major Recent Research on Faculty The Narrative of Constraint in Faculty Work Faculty Growth Significance Audience for This Volume Conclusion A Framework for Faculty Growth Defining Faculty Professional Growth Aspects of Faculty Members' Professional Growth Summary New Architects and Composers of Faculty Work Contextualizing Demographic Changes in the Professoriate New Authors and Composers of Faculty Work How Difference Matters Summary and Implications Faculty Appointments Defining Nontraditional Faculty Appointments Examining the Rise in Contingent Appointments Analyzing Performance Summary and Implications Faculty Work Faculty Work Uncovered Emerging Trends in Faculty Work Summary and Implications Recent Reforms of Faculty Reward Systems The Influence of Reward Systems on Faculty Behavior Equity for Women Faculty and Faculty of Color Four Kinds of Reform of Reward Systems Analysis Across Reforms in Reward Systems Summary and Implications Perspectives Guiding Studies of Faculty Toward an Era of “Greater Expectations” Perspectives Summary and Implications Designing a New Narrative The Power of Narrative The Narrative of Constraint Toward a Counternarrative about and for Faculty Growth Summary Note References Name Index Subject Index About the Authors