Working Papers
Brint, Steven, and Allison M. Cantwell. 2012. "Portrait of the Disengaged."
Brint, Steven, Kerry Mulligan, Matthew B. Rotondi, Jacob Apkarian, and Robert A. Hanneman. 2011. “Who Governs? Comparing Dual and Managerial Control Models of Academic Governance.”
Organizational Change in American Colleges and Universities
Brint, Steven, Kristopher Proctor, Kerry Mulligan, Matthew B. Rotondi, and Robert A. Hanneman. 2011. “Declining Academic Fields in U.S. Four-Year Colleges and Universities, 1970-2006." Forthcoming in The Journal of Higher Education.
Brint, Steven, Kristopher Proctor, Robert A. Hanneman, Kerry Mulligan, Matthew B. Rotondi, Scott P. Murphy. 2011. “Who are the Early Adopters of New Academic Fields? Comparing Four Perspectives on the Institutionalization of Degree Granting Programs in US Four-Year Colleges and Universities, 1970–2005.” Higher Education 61: 563-585.
Brint, Steven, Kristopher Proctor, Scott Patrick Murphy, Lori Turk-Bicakci, and Robert A. Hanneman. 2009. "General Education Models: Continuity and Change in the U.S. Undergraduate Curriculum, 1975-2000. " The Journal of Higher Education 80: 605-642.
Brint, Steven, Lori Turk-Bicakci, Kristopher Proctor, and Scott Patrick Murphy. 2008. "Expanding the Social Frame of Knowledge: The Growth and Distribution of Interdisciplinary, Degree-granting Programs in American Colleges and Universities, 1975-2000." Review of Higher Eduction 32: 155-183.
Brint, Steven, Mark Riddle, and Robert A. Hanneman. 2006. "Reference Sets, Identities, and Aspirations in a Complex Organizational Field: The Case of American Four-Year Colleges and Universities." Sociology of Education 79: 229-252.
Brint, Steven. 2005. "Creating the Future: 'New Directions' in American Research Universities." Minerva 43: 23-50.
Brint, Steven. 2002. "Data on Higher Education in the United States: Are the Existing Resources Adequate?" American Behavioral Scientist 45: 1493-1522.
Brint, Steven. 2002. "Rise of the Practical Arts." Pp. 61-89 in The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University, edited by Steven Brint. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Brint, Steven. 2000. "Higher Education." Pp. 1178-1186 in Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda J. V. Montgomery. New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
Higher Education and the Market Place
Brint, Steven, Kristopher Proctor, Scott Patrick Murphy, and Robert A. Hanneman. 2011. "The Market Model and the Growth and Decline of Academic Fields In U.S. Colleges and Universities, 1980-2000." Forthcoming in Sociological Forum.
Brint, Steven and Mathew Baron Rotondi. 2008. "Student Debt, the College Experience, and Transitions to Adulthood." Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA.
Brint, Steven. 2007. "Can Public Research Universities Compete?" Pp. 91-118 in Roger L. Geiger, Carol L. Colbeck, Roger L. Williams, and Christian K. Anderson (eds.), The Future of American Public Research Universities. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Brint, Steven. 2007. "Public Views of Higher Education." Paper presented at the Institute for Governmental Studies, UC-Berkeley. (January).
Turk-Bicakci, Lori. 2007. "The Development of Social Movement Programs and Departments in Higher Education: Women’s and Ethnic Studies from 1975 to 2000" Dissertation in Sociology. Riverside, CA: University of California, Riverside.
Brint, Steven, Mark Riddle, Lori Turk-Bicakci, and Charles S. Levy. 2005. "From Liberal to Practical Arts in American Colleges and Universities: Organizational Analysis and Curricular Change." The Journal of Higher Education 76: 151-180.
Turk-Bicakci, Lori, and Steven Brint. 2005. "University-Industry Collaboration: Patterns of Growth for Low- and Middle-level Performers." Higher Education 49: 61-89.
Brint, Steven. 2003. "Few Remaining Dreams: Community Colleges Since 1985." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 586: 16-37.
Brint, Steven, Katrina Paxton-Jorgenson, and Eric Vega. 2003. "University-Industry Relations in the Market for Online Courses and Degrees." In Research and Occasion Paper Series -- Center for Studies in Higher Education.
Hashem, Mazem. 2002. "Academic Knowledge from Elite Closure to Professional Service: The Rise of High-growth Fields in American Higher Education." Dissertation in Sociology. Riverside, CA: University of California, Riverside.
Reforming Undergraduate Education
Brint, Steven. 2011. "The Educational Lottery." The Los Angeles Review of Books. November 15, 2011.
Brint, Steven. 2011. "Undergraduate Student Orientations in the United States: Academically Adrift?" Forthcoming in Bildung and Erziehung.
Brint, Steven, Allison M. Cantwell and Preeta Saxena. 2011. “Disciplinary Categories, Majors, and Undergraduate Academic Experiences: Rethinking Bok’s ‘Underachieving Colleges’ Thesis.” Forthcoming in Research in Higher Education.
Brint, Steven. 2011. "Focus on the Classroom: Movements to Reform College Teaching and Learning, 1980-2008." Pp. 44-91 in Joseph C. Hermanowicz (ed.) The American Academic Profession: Transofrmation in Contemporary Higher Education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Brint, Steven, and Allison M. Cantwell. 2010. "Time Use and Academic Outcomes." Teachers College Record 112: 2441-2470.
Brint, Steven, John Aubrey Douglass, Gregg Thomson, and Steve Chatman. 2010. Engaged Learning in a Public University: Trends in the Undergraduate Experience, Report on the Results of the 2008 University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey. Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education.
Brint, Steven. 2008. "The Spellings Commission and the Case for Professionalizing College Teaching " Academe (May-June).
Brint, Steven, Allison M. Cantwell, and Robert A. Hanneman. 2008. "Two Cultures of Undergraduate Academic Engagement." Research in Higher Education 49: 383-402.
Brint, Steven, Steve Chatman, John Aubrey Douglass, Richard Flacks, and Gregg Thomson. 2007. A New Generation: General Report of the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey 2006 Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education.
Universities, the Professional Middle Class, and the Public Interest
Brint, Steven and Kristopher Proctor. 2011. "Middle-Class Respectability in the 21st Century: Work and Lifesytle in the Professional-Managerial Stratum." in Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present, edited by Joshua J. Yates and James Davison Hunter. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Brint, Steven. 2009. " The 'Collective Mind' at Work: A Decade in the Life of U.S. Sociology of Education." Sociology of Education Section Newsletter 12: 7-15.
Brint, Steven. 2008. "Remarks on Paul Attewell and David E. Lavin, Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations." Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Boston, MA.
Brint, Steven and Sue Teele. 2008. “Professionalism Under Siege: Teachers’ Views of the No Child Left Behind Act”. Pp. 131-52 in Alan R. Sadovnik, George H. Bohrnstedt, Jennifer O’Day,
and Katherine M. Borman (eds.). Federal Legislation, No Child Left Behind, and the
Reduction of the Achievement Gap: Sociological Perspectives on Federal Education Policy. New York: Routledge.
Brint, Steven. 2006. "Guide for the Perplexed: On Michael Burawoy's ‘Public Sociology’." The American Sociologist 36: 46-65.
Brint, Steven. 2006. "Saving the ‘Soul of Professionalism’: Freidson's Institutional Ethics and the Defense of Professional Autonomy." Knowledge, Work & Society 4: 101-129.
Brint, Steven. 2001. "Professionals and the 'Knowledge Economy': Rethinking the Theory of Post-Industrial Society." Current Sociology 49: 101-132.