Research as a Source of Differentiation in Academic Life
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academic research, peer evaluation, faculty recruitment, higher educationAbstract
This paper considers how differential commitment to research influences recruitment to academic work, the process of peer evaluation, and collegial communication among institutions and scholarly disciplines. Professors of engineering and chemistry affiliated with French and English medium Quebec universities were surveyed. The findings indicate that variations in the academic culture of institutions and scholarly disciplines are more likely to be the product of factors which shape their interactions with various constituencies than of differential commitment to research.
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