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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview (, 13 KB, 2pp)

A Symposium: Knowledge Workers and Unions in the 21st Century

Introduction (, 13 KB, 2pp)

Knowledge Workers: Trade Unionism's New Frontier (, 31 KB, 8pp)

History, Women's Work, and The New Unionism (, 28 KB, 6pp)

Entertainment Unions and Higher Education (, 27 KB, 6pp)

Quality in Instruction

Adapting to a New Generation of College Students (, 34 KB, 10pp)

Learning to Read and Write: Still a Miracle (, 18 KB, 4pp)

Keeping Wonder Alive in Today's College Classroom (, 35 KB, 10pp)

Trust, but Verify: Toward Fairer Student Evaluations (, 28 KB, 8pp)

Issues in the Profession

Fear of the Self in American Academic Life (, 26 KB, 6pp)

Fighting the Culture Wars in Academia (, 48 KB, 14pp)

Bargaining For the Future at Cal State (, 29 KB, 8pp)

Tenure at Minnesota: A Postmortem (, 29 KB, 8pp)

Distance Education: Assessing Costs and Benefits (, 47 KB, 14pp)

University Senates and the Law: A Case Study (, 43 KB, 12pp)

Faculty of Color and Traditional Notions of Service (, 31 KB, 8pp)

Reviews

We're Gonna Roll the Movement On (, 22 KB, 4pp)
A review of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time

So Our Campuses Look Like All of Us (, 20 KB, 4pp)
A review of Enacting Diverse Learning Environments

Looking for Work in the Halls of Academe (, 16 KB, 4pp)
A review of Finding an Academic Job

Correspondence

Letters to the Editor (, 16 KB, 4pp)

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