The Development Of American Professors' Academic Profession (1970-1985)

In the 1970s, American higher education was in great crisis. As a result of financial crisis and the impact of the civil rights movement, student movement, affirmative action programs and the rising student consumerism, the development of American professors' academic profession encountered new great challenges. The thesis mainly describes the backgrounds and the performances of these new challenges, and the practices of the the development of American professors' academic profession in this period. On the basis of description, the thesis summarizes the historical experiences of the development.The thesis consists of four parts:Part one retrospects the social backgrounds of the development of American higher education in the "crisis era".Part two expatiates the external challenges of the development of American professors' academic profession in this period. It mainly involved the new changes of occupational safeguard, the social position, economic status and working conditions of American professors in the 1970s—1980s.Part three describes the practices of the development of American professors' academic profession.Part four summarizes the historical experiences of the development of American professors' academic profession.