ContentsVolume Introduction, Philip G. Altbach and Martin J. Finkelstein lbr>1. Historical Contextlbr>Problems and Possibilities: The U.S. Academic Profession, Philip G. Altback lbr>The Emergence of the Modern Academic Role, Martin J. Finkelstein lbr>2. The Structure of Academic Careers lbr>The Academic Career as a Developmental Process: Implications for Higher Education, Roger G. Baldwin and Robert T. Blackburn lbr>Employment Profiles of Part-Timers, Judith M. Gappa and David W. Leslie. lbr>3. Academic Culture and Socialization lbr>Professorial Attitudes-An International Survey, Philip G. Altbach and Lionel S. Lewis lbr>The Ties of Association, Burton R. Clark lbr>Conceptualizing Faculty Socialization, William G. Tierney and Robert A. Rhoades lbr>Tenure: A Summary, Explanation, and "Defense" lbr>4. Rewards and the Academic Marketplace lbr>The Flow of Faculty to and from Academe, Howard R. Bowen and Jack H. Schuster lbr>Change in the Academic Marketplace: Faculty Mobility in the 1980s, Dolores L. Burke lbr>The Value of Teaching, Research, and Service, James S. Fairweather lbr>5. Faculty at Work: Teaching, Research, and Service lbr>New Faculty as Teachers, Robert Boice lbr>Faculty Research, Robert T. Blackburn and Janet H. Lawrence lbr>Perspectives on the Professional Socialization of Women Faculty: A Case of Accumulative Disadvantage? Shirley M. Clark and Mary Corcoran lbr>Are Women Changing the Nature of the Academic Profession? Ana Maria Turner Lomperis lbr>Entry into Academia: Effects of Stratification, Geography and Ecology, Robert McGinnis and J. Scott Long lbr>Charting the Changes in Junior Faculty: Relationships Among Socialization, Acculturation, and Gender, Anne Reynolds lbr>Acknowledgments