ContentsVolume Introduction, Philip G. Altbach and Martin J. Finkelstein 1. Historical Context Problems and Possibilities: The U.S. Academic Profession, Philip G. Altback The Emergence of the Modern Academic Role, Martin J. Finkelstein 2. The Structure of Academic Careers The Academic Career as a Developmental Process: Implications for Higher Education, Roger G. Baldwin and Robert T. Blackburn Employment Profiles of Part-Timers, Judith M. Gappa and David W. Leslie. 3. Academic Culture and Socialization Professorial Attitudes-An International Survey, Philip G. Altbach and Lionel S. Lewis The Ties of Association, Burton R. Clark Conceptualizing Faculty Socialization, William G. Tierney and Robert A. Rhoades Tenure: A Summary, Explanation, and Defense 4. Rewards and the Academic Marketplace The Flow of Faculty to and from Academe, Howard R. Bowen and Jack H. Schuster Change in the Academic Marketplace: Faculty Mobility in the 1980s, Dolores L. Burke The Value of Teaching, Research, and Service, James S. Fairweather 5. Faculty at Work: Teaching, Research, and Service New Faculty as Teachers, Robert Boice Faculty Research, Robert T. Blackburn and Janet H. Lawrence Perspectives on the Professional Socialization of Women Faculty: A Case of Accumulative Disadvantage? Shirley M. Clark and Mary Corcoran Are Women Changing the Nature of the Academic Profession? Ana Maria Turner Lomperis Entry into Academia: Effects of Stratification, Geography and Ecology, Robert McGinnis and J. Scott Long Charting the Changes in Junior Faculty: Relationships Among Socialization, Acculturation, and Gender, Anne Reynolds Acknowledgments