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The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Younger Professors Say a Successful Career Should Not Require Long Hours"

March 4, 2010

The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education interviewed 12 professors on three mid-Atlantic campuses who were born between 1964 and 1980. These professors said they saw their attitudes toward work hours as different from those of older faculty members.

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Study Challenges Perception of ‘Gen X’ Faculty as Career Climbers

March 4, 2010


Interviews reveal desire for “roots, not rungs.”

A new study commissioned by COACHE—the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education—challenges the common misperception of “Generation X” college faculty as self-centered careerists. Interviews with 16 faculty and administrators at three representative campuses suggest that Gen X faculty prefer, in fact, to establish long-term relationships with colleagues and others in their professional and personal communities....

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