Internationally, the increasing emphasis in universities on the quality of teaching, on student employability and on a corporate approach to entrepreneurial income generation has created a tension around the primacy afforded to published research outputs as a focus for academic work and status. In this study, a framework for academic socialisation…

Qualitative findings about the information-seeking behavior of today's college graduates as they transition from the campus to the workplace. Included are findings from interviews with 23 US employers and focus groups with 33 recent graduates from four US colleges and universities, conducted as an exploratory study for Project Information…

The author traces his career from his days as an anthropology student through his work on a wide variety of government and institutional social science research projects. He comments on the politics involved in such research. (SJL)

Analysis of panel data on the education and career paths of Swiss university graduates in all fields of study through the 1990s shows that women and people from less-educated families are less commonly recruited for research careers than are men and people from university-educated backgrounds. However, the degree of inequality of opportunity is…

A growing trend among graduates of doctoral nursing programs seeking faculty positions is that the area of study pursued and focus of inquiry at the doctoral level are unrelated to the area of employment sought. Better academic advising and program design are necessary. (MSE)