Tag: higher education

Call for Participants: Early-Career Sociologists and University Administrators at R1 Institutions

On By Jessica UrzúaIn Calls for ParticipantsLeave a comment

Jennifer Krebsbach, a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, is conducting a study on how restrictive, external government-led policies are shaping the individual decisions made about teaching and research for early-career sociologists–and how university administrators are working to support their faculty. She is seeking two groups of participants for her study: assistant professors of sociology and administrators within colleges that house sociology programs–must be working at R1 institutions. Participation involves a 10-20 minute survey. Assistant professors have the additional option of being interviewed at a regional sociological conference in the upcoming year.

To participate in this research as an assistant professor, please click here. To participate in this research as a sociology Department Chair, or as an administrator (Dean, Assistant/Associate Dean) of the college that oversees a sociology department, please click here. If you have any questions about the research project or want to know more, please contact Jennifer M. Krebsbach, jkrebsbach@ucdavis.edu.

New Book: Scott, Kirst and Colleagues on Higher Ed and Silicon Valley

On By Sarah MosseriIn Publications, UncategorizedLeave a comment

W. Richard (Dick) Scott together with Michael W. Kirst and other colleagues have completed a book on HIGHER EDUCATION AND SILICON VALLEY, to be published summer of 2017 by John Hopkins University Press.  The book focuses on higher education as an organization field and also considers colleges as part of the regional economic field of Silicon Valley.  They take a longitudinal view, reviewing changes since 1970, and also examine the efforts of a sample of 16 diverse colleges to adapt to conflicting pressures stemming from an attempt to abide by academic norms and also respond to economic challenges.