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Abstract

In 1992, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, under the leadership of the late Ernest Boyer, conducted the first ever international survey of the academic profession. It reported that while the American professorate was somewhat insular in its orientation/perspective, it felt secure in its professional status, relatively comfortable in the work setting and reasonably influential on their campuses—relative to academics in 13 other nations. Since that time, of course, everything has changed—globalization, the Internet revolution, and privatization trends. The world we live in now seems barely recognizable to that in 1992. How have these global forces impacted the academic profession? Are we, like most national economies, globalizing? Internationalizing? How are powerful new economic forces reshaping us and our work? How is the university being transformed in its emerging role as the center of the new knowledge economy?