State of the Art Conference discusses
the academic profession

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In collaboration with the Department of Sociology, the Institute hosted a conference discussing the future of the academic profession. The conference, entitled "Wither the American Academic Profession? Its Changing Forms and Functions," took place in Meigs Hall April 25-26. Presenters are listed below, along with their presentation topics.

• "The Professoriate's Perilous Path: Does Whither Mean Wither?"
  Jack H. Schuster, Claremont Graduate University
• "Structural Change in Faculty Roles at Research Universities"
  Roger L. Geiger, Penn State University
• "On the Trail toward Tenure: Organizational Outcomes of Assistant Professors"
  Lowell Hargens, University of Washington
• "The Socialization of Future Faculty in a Changing Context: Traditions, Challenges, and Possibilities"
  Ann E. Austin, Michigan State University
• "Learning Profession: Transforming Contexts of Professors' Scholarly Learning"
  Anna Neumann & Katie Mehan Conway, Columbia University
• "'Infotainment' and the Arcane: Student and Faculty Expectations of Professorial Roles in the Era of Massification"
  Patrick Crane, University of Georgia
• "Whose Educational Space is it? Negotiating Professional Jurisdiction in the High Tech Academy"
  Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona
• "Time, Space, and Technology: Implications of Technological Change in the Academic Profession"
  David R. Johnson, University of Georgia
• "No College Student Left Behind? The Case for Professionalizing the College Teaching Function"
  Steven Brint, University of California, Riverside
• "The Snowbird Environmental Research Charrette: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Collaboration"
  Edward J. Hackett, Arizona State University
  Diana Rhoten, Social Science Research Council
• "Faculty Malfeasance in Graduate Training and Mentoring"
  John M. Braxton, Vanderbilt University
  Alan E. Bayer, Virginia Tech University
• "Academic Freedom in the Neoliberal State"
  Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia