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P A Lamal1, R F Rakos, J Greenspoon
1Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. palamal@email.uncc.edu
Abstract:
We discuss contemporary trends and developments that affect colleges and universities and describe several central contingencies that have given rise to, maintain, and operate in response to these trends and developments. We identify the differential impacts of these contingencies on faculty, students, and administrators in various types of higher education institutions. These contingencies are sources of conflict between and among these three groups within the academy that, we argue, cause significant instability in contemporary academe. We discuss prominent domains of this dis-equilibrium and propose several general interventions to address the sources of the instability.
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