Gary Rhoades is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Arizona’s Center for the Study of Higher Education, which he directed from 1997-2009, before he served as General Secretary of the American Association of University Professors from January 2009 to June 2011. Rhoades’ research is on the restructuring of academic institutions and professions, published in numerous academic journals and in two books, Managed Professionals: Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor (SUNY Press, 1998) and (with Sheila Slaughter) Academic Capitalism and the New Economy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).