Volume 25, Number 8 · May 18, 1978

The Professors: A Survey of a Survey

By Serge Lang

Last spring more than 9,000 faculty members in American colleges and universities received a questionnaire called 'The 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate.' This questionnaire, twenty pages long, consisted of 128 multiple choice questions. It had an impressive deep red cover stating that it was 'directed' by Everett C. Ladd, Jr., of the University of Connecticut and Seymour Martin Lipset of Stanford. An accompanying letter from Lipset and Ladd informed those who received it that:



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