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Rherrad, Imad – Higher Education Quarterly, 2009
The article studies the differences in knowledge production between academic researchers. In this perspective, it attempts at first to answer the following question: what factors explain differences in knowledge production between Canadian researchers in natural sciences and engineering? After a presentation of some of the empirical evidence…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Natural Sciences, Engineering, Researchers
Chan, Susy; Burton, John – 1993
Central to the debates surrounding accountability, cost containment, and effectiveness in higher education are issues concerning faculty vitality and productivity. This paper proposes that the nature of faculty vitality and the interactions between individual and institutional vitality are different for comprehensive universities, particularly…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Environment, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Promotion
Simpson, William A. – 1984
A procedure for developing a costing model is described. Limitations of a cost analysis are also reviewed, with attention to the problems of handling joint products, obtaining accurate faculty effort data, measuring educational outputs, and calculating marginal costs. A researcher charged with developing a costing model is faced with the task of…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Instruction, Cost Estimates, Decision Making
Bailey, Theresa G. – 1992
This study examined faculty research productivity in terms of four common explanations for variance in productivity and tested a regression model while controlling for factors such as institutional affiliation, rank, and gender. The study used data from the 1989 survey of the professoriate conducted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Colleges, Faculty Publishing
Jones, Laura Kingsbury; Hoenack, Stephen A. – 1992
This study tested a model of career development for assistant professors in higher education which permits inferences about the relationships between scholarly characteristics acquired during the probationary period and the probability of achieving tenure. The probationary period is the time between hiring and evaluation for awarding tenure. The…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Career Development, College Faculty, Faculty Promotion