Fostering Faculty: Institutional Loyalty and Professional Rewards

American higher education is now grappling with the conflict between traditional faculty roles and expectations and the managerially complex multi-purpose learning establishments of today. In this context and in contrast to O’Briant’s view, the authors explore the concepts of institutional loyalty and professional reward. Primary challenges are the need for new philosophies about how faculty and administrators approach their careers and each other, demographic changes in the student body, societal demands on the curriculum, and the differences in values and norms of higher education’s constituents.