Baldwin, Roger G. 1947–

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Baldwin, Roger G. 1947–

PERSONAL: Born March 6, 1947, in Warren, OH; son of Roger G. Sr. (a grocer) and Pear H. (a grocer) Baldwin; married March 25, 1989; wife's name Margaret M. (an elementary school teacher). Education: Hiram College, B.A. (psychology), 1969; Cornell University, M.A., 1973 (counseling and student personnel administration); University of Michigan, Ph.D. (higher education), 1979. Religion: Protestant. Hobbies and other interests: Gardening, reading.

ADDRESSES: Home—3782 Chippendale Circle, Okemos, MI 48864. Office—Michigan State University, College of Education, 429 Erickson Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC, research associate, 1980–82; Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH, assistant to the provost, 1982–84; College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, professor of higher education, 1984–2001; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, program director, 1990–92; Michigan State University, East Lansing, professor of higher, adult, and lifelong education, 2001–. Hiram College, trustee, 1994–2000.

MEMBER: Association for the Study of Higher Education (board member, 1992–94), American Association for Higher Education.

WRITINGS:

(With L. Brakemean, R. Hagberg, and T. Maher) Expanding Faculty Options: Career Development Projects at Colleges and Universities, American Association for Higher Education (Alexandria, VA), 1981.

(Editor, with Robert T. Blackburn) College Faculty: Versatile Human Resources in a Period of Constraint, Jossey-Bass (San Francisco, CA), 1983.

(Editor) Incentives for Faculty Vitality, Jossey-Bass (San Francisco, CA), 1985.

(Editor, with David H. Finifter and John R. Thelin) The Uneasy Public Policy Triangle in Higher Education: Quality, Diversity, and Budgetary Efficiency, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1991.

(With Ann E. Austin) Faculty Collaboration: Enhancing the Quality of Scholarship and Teaching, School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University (Washington, DC), 1991.

(With Jay L. Chronister and Valerie M. Conley) Retirement and Other Departure Plans of Instructional Faculty and Staff in Higher Education Institutions: 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF-93), U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (Washington, DC), 1997.

(With Jay L. Chronister) Teaching without Tenure: Policies and Practices for a New Era, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 2001.

Contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Higher Education.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Faculty in the Middle Years: Illuminating an Overlooked Phase of the Academic Career.

SIDELIGHTS: Roger G. Baldwin once told CA: "My primary purpose for writing is to inform discussion and improve practice in higher education. My work is particularly influenced by theories and research on adult and career development. I believe we need a better understanding of how adults grow and change over time and how this developmental process affects persons' interests, attitudes, performance, and professional development needs. Higher education in America is in the midst of a nearly unprecedented transformation. I write to contribute to this evolutionary process. I hope that my work will in some small way help to make college and universities better able to serve the needs of a diverse and dynamic society."

In The Uneasy Public Policy Triangle in Higher Education: Quality, Diversity, and Budgetary Efficiency, Baldwin and coeditors David H. Finifter and John R. Thelin present fourteen discussion papers focusing issues of quality, diversity, and efficiency in higher education policies. Writing in the Journal of Higher Education, Michaela Martin noted that the collection "provides the reader with a variety of often divergent and controversial concepts, trends, and perspectives on public policy making in American higher education."

Baldwin and Jay L. Chronister examine issues of faculty tenure in Teaching without Tenure: Policies and Practices for a New Era. The book presents the authors' view that more and more institutions of higher learning are hiring teachers without ever granting them tenure and that this practice is not fair but is likely to remain in place. The authors' findings are based on their research of twelve different college campuses in the United States, including interviews with nearly four hundred teachers and administrators. Writing in Community College Week, Deborah Straw commented that "the amount of research and analysis deployed in this book puts the debate over the future of tenure on much firmer ground." Straw went on to comment that the book "should help its readers realize the worth of a growing segment of the academic population that is, for the most part, entirely dedicated to teaching." In a review in the Journal of Higher Education, Charles E. Walton wrote: "Teaching without Tenure is a call to higher education institutions to address the treatment of full-time, nontenured faculty by developing detailed policies that afford these faculty more opportunity for integration, professional development, and governance." Judith M. Gappa, writing in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, commented that the book "provides a handy framework for exploring some of the major faculty employment issues." Gappa also attested that the authors "provide a good overview of the complex issues, advantages, and disadvantages accompanying the rising use of" full-time non-tenure-track faculty. "The authors," Gappa concluded, "add a powerful voice to the many others who have studied the benefits and limitations of the current academic employment system."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice, March, 1992, F.X. Russo, review of The Uneasy Public Policy Triangle in Higher Education: Quality, Diversity, and Budgetary Efficiency, p. 1135.

Community College Week, April 29, 2002, Deborah Straw, review of Teaching without Tenure: Policies and Practices for a New Era, p. 14.

Journal of Higher Education, March-April, 1993, Michaela Martin, review of The Uneasy Public Policy Triangle in Higher Education, p. 237; November-December, 2002, Charles E. Walton, review of Teaching without Tenure, p. 784.

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, summer, 2002, Judith M. Gappa, review of Teaching without Tenure, p. 449.

Virginia Quarterly Review, winter, 2002, review of Teaching without Tenure.