Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Interviews
• 1. The Attraction of Academic Life
• 2. The Basic Academic Processes and the Search for Meaning: The Conflict between Elitist and Egalitarian Values
• 3. The Relationship of Faculty to Academic Institutions
• 4. The Struggle for Change
• 5. Special Features of Academic Life
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Julius Getman holds the Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair in the University of Texas School of Law. He has served as both president and general counsel of the American Association of University Professors.