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Acknowledgments
1.Dynamics of American Universities
What Kind of Creature is Higher Education?
The Problematic Status of “Functions”
Structural Changes Accompanying Growth
A Peculiar Case in Higher Education: Structural Accretion
A Historical Sketch of the Process
The Discipline-Based Academic Department: So Strong and Yet So Frail
The Organized Research Unit as Distraction from Departments
Reactions and Conflicts Endemic in the Process of Accretion
Conditions Producing the Endemic Pattern
Two Long-term Consequences of Accretion
The Structuring of Faculty Activities
Implications for Academic Community
2.The Dynamics Ramify: Academic Politics, Conflict, and Inequality
Instabilities Imposed on Inertial Stability
Of Pythons and Goats
Economic Fluctuations
Competitors for Resources
Relevance to Accretion
Accretion and the Growth of Political Constituencies
Internal Constituencies
External Constituencies
Accretion, Revenues, and Costs
Accretion, Academic Administration, and Higher Education Politics
Management as Science and Art
Administration as Threat to Academic Culture
Administration as Parkinsonian
The Structural Alternative
Implications for Shared Governance
Accretion and Academic Stratification
Institutional Prestige
Multicampus Systems and Stratification
Prestige Among Disciplines
3.Contemporary Trends: Diagnoses and Conditional Predictions
An Unprecedented Perfect Storm
Unproductive Paradoxes: Starvation, Accountability, and Governance
General Consequences of Shifts in Support and Costs
Accountability, Governance, and Support
The Many Faces of Commercialization
The Language and Imagery of Corporatism and Its Consequences
Student Consumerism
Economizing as a Way of Life
University-Industry Relations
Online Distance Instruction and the Rise of the For-Profits
Nontenured and Part-Time Faculty
Implications for Tenure
Excursus on Academic Freedom
Coda
References
Index
