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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED135278 AUTHOR: Ladd, Everett Carll, Jr.; Lipset, Seymour Martin
TITLE: Survey of the Social, Political, and Educational
Perspectives of American College and University Faculty.
Final Report. 2 Volumes.
YEAR PUBLISHED: (1976)
NOTE: 427 p.
ABSTRACT: A large-scale, national survey of college and
university professors was conducted in 1975, supported by
the National Institute of Education. The data were
collected
from more than 3,500 faculty members, and include 400
separate items from each respondent. The study tapped
faculty opinion on such matters as unionization, bargaining
agents, the university's response to and priorities in
austerity, the argument over affirmative action, equality
vs. meritocracy in the university, the nature of the
academic enterprise, perception of one's own role(s), the
value placed on various faculty responsibilities, teaching
versus research, the failings of the American university,
domestic social, political, and economic matters, and
foreign policy issues. Faculty views are presented in three
perspectives: as compared with faculty opinion at earlier
times, compared with public opinion, and analyzed by age,
sex, and academic rank of the respondents. (MSE)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Administrative-Policy; Affirmative-Action;
Age-Differences; Collective-Bargaining; Economics-;
Educational-Administration; Faculty-Evaluation; Faculty
Promotion; Faculty-Workload; Foreign-Policy; National
Surveys; Occupational-Surveys; Political-Issues; Public
Opinion; Research-; Sex-Differences; Social-Problems;
Teacher-Role; Unions-; Universities-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Faculty; *Higher-Education;
*Opinions-; *Teacher-Attitudes
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