GSE Faculty Research
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
1998
Publication Source
Planning for Higher Education
Volume
27
Start Page
30
Last Page
36
Abstract
A fact of academic life is that faculty and presidents primarily concern themselves with different institutional tasks, attend different institutional meetings, and pursue different institutional goals. In short, faculty do "faculty things" and presidents do "presidential things." They have different perceptions of institutional life (Peterson and White 1992). Differing perspectives can easily lead to standoffs between the two powers in academe—those who teach and those who administer—and those standoffs happen quite frequently (American Council on Education & Pew Higher Education Roundtable 1996; Schuster et al. 1994). Faculty-administrator differences are not a new phenomenon; examples exist at Williams and Dartmouth Colleges from 100 years ago (Finkelstein 1984).
Copyright/Permission Statement
Originally published in Planning for Higher Education © 1998 SCUP. Reproduced with permission.
Recommended Citation
Eckel, P. D. (1998). Are They Singing from the Same Hymn Book?. Planning for Higher Education, 27 30-36. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/gse_pubs/460
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Date Posted: 25 August 2018