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Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research pp 239–293Cite as

The Professoriate in International Perspective

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The international professoriate consists of the world’s teachers, researchers, and scholars who are employed by universities, schools, colleges, centers, and institutes as the primary academic staff of higher education institutions. The size and scope of the international professoriate, mirroring the role played by higher education in the social organization of societies throughout the world, has changed tremendously in the last quarter-century. The present work reviews major recent efforts to study the professoriate comparatively. The elemental theoretic foundations of comparative study of the professoriate are examined, which includes both classic and contemporary formulations. Guiding theoretic ideas and puzzles are identified, including center and periphery, convergence and differentiation, growth and accretion. The review considers four clusters of major topical forays, representing both empirical and analytic work on the contemporary international professoriate. The clusters of work include academic freedom; contracts and compensation; career structures and roles; and an account of a recent surge of survey research exemplified by the “Changing Academic Profession” project. Taking stock of the current situation of work, the review concludes by explaining three elements, gleaned from examples of outstanding scholarship of the past, that are essential to preserving a future for important comparative inquiry on the professoriate.

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Notes

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    Professor Ben-David died at the age of sixty-five in 1985, before I had the opportunity to meet him upon my arrival as a student at the University of Chicago in 1987. I know about him through his work and through others’ direct contact with him. I credit especially personal communication with Ulrich Teichler in 2013 and 2015 at the annual meeting of the Consortium of Higher Education Researchers in Lausanne and Lisbon, with Teresa Sullivan in 2013 at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in New York, and with Charles Bidwell, Terry Clark, and Edward Shils over the course of many years between 1989 and 1999 in Chicago, in informing my remarks.

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