Provides insight into the academic profession. This book acts as a guide to understanding the forms and directions of change in the professoriate, as well as some of the continuities.

Researchers, planners, students and national and international agencies concerned with the changing world of higher education, will find this book an indispensable guide to understanding the forms and directions of change in the professoriate, as well as some of the continuities.

Preface.- Challenge and Change: The Academic Profession in Uncertain Times.- Globalisation?s Impact on The Professoriate in Anglo-American Universities.- Academics and Institutional Governance.- Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States.- From Peregrinatio Academica to Global Academic: The internationalisation of the profession.- Academics? view of teaching staff mobility: The ERASMUS.- Experience Revisited.- How Satisfied Are Women and Men with their Academic Work?: The impact of gender, discipline, area and academic rank in Australia.- Academic Work Satisfaction in the Wake of Institutional Reforms in Australia.- Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective.- Improve Teaching Methods or Perish? Issues Confronting the Academic Profession in Latin America.- The Chinese Professoriate in Comparative Perspective: Self-perceptions, Academic Life, Gender Differences and Internal Differentiation.- The Academic Profession in Hong Kong.- Conclusion: New Millennium, New Milieu?- Index.