Faculty at Work: Motivation, Expectation, Satisfaction

by Robert T. Blackburn, Janet H. Lawrence

In recent years, college and university faculty members have witnessed a marked change in institutional climate. Competition has replaced collegiality. Criticism of faculty from outside the university has increased in both volume and intensity. The litigious larger society has arrived on campus with a vengeance. In this ground-breaking volume, Robert Blackburn and Janet Lawrence respond to these developments by showing how faculty and administrators can benefit from learning how to make motivation, expectation, and satisfaction function in concert when faculty are at work. With the ultimate goal of helping faculty and administrators make effective and positive decisions, Blackburn and Lawrence explain and predict faculty behavior in three key research, teaching, and service and scholarship. The authors use what they have learned as a springboard for speculating on the future of faculty work.

Paperback

First published June 1, 1995

About the author

Robert T. Blackburn (1933–1998) was an American scholar of higher education. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. in 1953. From 1958 to 1966, he taught at Shimer College, which shared the U of C's radical Great Books curriculum, also serving for a time as Dean of the Faculty. From 1966 until his retirement in 1997, he served as a professor of higher education at the University of Michigan. Of Blackburn's numerous writings on postsecondary education, the best-known is Faculty at Work, published in 1995 and coauthored with Janet Lawrence. (from Shimer College Wiki)