In conversations with a dozen faculty members, researchers with a project on work-life issues run by Harvard University have found that “Generation X” professors value efficiency over “face time” and believe that quality is more important than quantity in academic work.
The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, a long-term project run by Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, conducted interviews with 12 professors born between 1964 and 1980 on three campuses in the mid-Atlantic: a liberal-arts college, a private master’s-degree-granting university, and a large public institution. Neither the interview subjects nor the institutions are named in the report.
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