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How the Academic Profession is Changing; Small Worlds, Different Worlds: The Uniquenesses and Troubles of American Academic Professions; The Elusive Academic Profession: Complexity and Change; Uncertainties in the Changing Academic Profession; Stewards of Opportunity: America's Public Community Colleges; Public Universities as Academic Workplaces; Survival of the Fittest? Postgraduate Education and the Professoriate at the Fin de Siècle; Reflections on the Culture Wars; A Blow Is Like an Instrument; The Science Wars and the Future of the American Academic Profession; The Scientist as Academic; The "Place" of Knowledge in the American Academic Profession; Border Crossings: Organizational Boundaries and Challenges to the American Professoriate; The Development of Information Technology in American Higher Education; An International Academic Crisis? The American Professoriate in Comparative Perspective