Challenge and Change: The Academic Profession in Uncertain Times -- Globalisation's Impact on the Professoriate in Anglo-American Universities -- Academics and Institutional Governance -- Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States -- From Peregrinatio Academica to Global Academic: The Internationalisation of the Profession -- Academics' View of Teaching Staff Mobility -- How Satisfied Are Women and Men with Their Academic Work? -- Academic Work Satisfaction in the Wake of Institutional Reforms in Australia -- Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective -- Improve Teaching Methods or Perish -- The Chinese Professoriate in Comparative Perspective -- The Academic Profession in Hong Kong -- Conclusion: New Millennium, New Milieu?.

This volume provides a unique insight into the academic profession at a time of major change. It is organized both thematically and geographically with attention given to regions rarely covered, such as China and Latin America. For the first time, here is a book that critically assesses the condition of the professoriate at a time of momentous change. The profession is fracturing along fault lines associated with gender, tenure, age, rank and system and institutional status. Globalization is also re-shaping the world of higher education, including academic work practices. This book draws upon a major international study of the academic profession, as well as upon new data. Both thematic treatments and case studies of the academic profession in various parts of the world present challenging insights into the tensions in the profession, as well as some of the aspects that, despite all the changes, bind academics in very different institutions and systems, together. Researchers, planners, students and national and international agencies concerned with the changing world of higher education, will find this book an indispensable guide to understanding the forms and directions of change in the professoriate, as well as some of the continuities.