University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

Lisa R. Lattuca Associate Professor and Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study of Higher Education

Book Title: Academic Tribes and Territories: Intellectual Enquiry and the Cultures of Disciplines

Author: Tony Becher and Paul Trowler

Selection Statement:

Tony Becher’s studies of disciplinary communities provide conceptual and methodological guidance to those seeking to understand why college and university faculty think and act as they do in their classrooms, laboratories and offices, when they are among their own, and when they are not.


Year: 2006