The professoriate's perilous path / Jack H. Schuster -- Optimizing research and teaching: the bifurcation of faculty roles at research universities / Roger L. Geiger -- Focus on the classroom: movements to reform college teaching and learning, 1980-2008 / Steven Brint -- Whose educational space? Negotiating professional jurisdiction in the high-tech academy / Gary Rhoades -- American academe and the knowledge-politics problem / Neil Gross -- The socialization of future faculty in a changing context: traditions, challenges, and possibilities / Ann E. Austin -- Professionalism in graduate teaching and mentoring / John M. Braxton, Eve Proper, Alan E. Bayer -- Scholarly learning and the academic profession in a time of change / Anna Neumann -- Anomie in the American academic profession / Joseph C. Hermanowicz -- Academic freedom, professional autonomy, and the State / Sheila Slaughter -- Codes of commerce: the uses of business rhetoric in the American academy, 1960-2000 / Daniel Lee Kleinman, Jacob Habinek, Steven P. Vallas -- The meaning of regulation in a changing academic profession / Erin Leahey, Kathleen Montgomery -- Professional control in the complex university: maintaining the faculty role / Teresa A. Sullivan -- All that glittered was not gold: rethinking American higher education's golden age, 1945-1970 / John R. Thelin.