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Stephen Mirabello; Rylie C. Martin; Christopher R. Marsicano – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Labor organization efforts grew following the pandemic in the United States at tech companies, automakers, and even higher education institutions. This brief examines unionization trends at private colleges and universities from 2007 to 2023, revealing staff as the main force behind unionization attempts, followed by contingent faculty. Major…
Descriptors: Unions, Trend Analysis, Employment Patterns, Private Colleges
Benjamin Elliott Novak – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the root cause of the increased rate of employee turnover at a higher educational institution and how to retain their current employees. The importance of this study was to help the educational institution reduce their employee turnover so they do not continue to struggle to find new talent to replace…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Higher Education, Labor Market, Employees
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Croucher, Gwilym; Woelert, Peter – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
One fundamental aspect of organizational transformation in higher education is the change to the profile of universities' non-academic workforce. Key staffing trends identified in recent studies conducted in a variety of national settings include an increase in the proportion of non-academic staff at universities and a shift toward more highly…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Work Environment, Universities
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Manfredi de Bernard; Roberta Comunian; Sarah Jewell; Elisa Salvador; Dave O'Brien – Industry and Higher Education, 2024
This paper reflects on the systematic interconnections between creative workers and higher education institutions (HEIs). Despite the latter representing key intermediaries in creative industries' development and creative workers' career trajectories, the relationship between the two has rarely been framed in a relational and systemic framework.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Drama Education, Acting
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Jones, Karen – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Against a background of Bologna process goals to improve employment prospects for PhD graduates, and the crisis of precarious employment conditions and prospects afflicting postdoctoral researchers -- hitherto postdocs, the OECD ([2021], "Reducing the Precarity of Academic Research Careers." In "OECD Science, Technology and Industry…
Descriptors: Postdoctoral Education, Doctoral Degrees, College Graduates, Gender Differences
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Livingstone, D. W. – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
'Employers know that they can hire worldwide now … so, there is limitless supply of people … who can do the job … . they're all qualified, most of them are actually over-qualified … . I'm a wage slave basically, I don't think we have very much social status … . we are replaceable workers … I mean, the employer holds all the cards really. We are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Underemployment, Employment Patterns
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Rothengatter, Maarten; Hil, Richard – Australian Universities' Review, 2013
Drawing on various secondary sources and direct encounters with casual academic staff, this article examines the emergent context and lived experiences of casualisation in Australian universities, with specific reference to on-going developments in teaching arrangements across the sector. Particular attention is paid to the challenges associated…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Universities
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Kubiak, Chris; Rogers, Anita M.; Turner, Annie – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2010
Foundation degrees have been developed in the UK as a means of meeting the learning needs of paraprofessionals in health and social care and the services within which they work in a cost-effective fashion. Workplace learning is an intrinsic component to these degrees. Taking a socio-cultural perspective, this paper examines how the students'…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Student Experience, College Students, Part Time Students
Kezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2012
The nature of the American academic workforce has fundamentally shifted over the past several decades. Whereas full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty were once the norm, more than two-thirds of the professoriate in non-profit postsecondary education is now comprised of non-tenure-track faculty. New hires across all institutional types are now…
Descriptors: Tenure, Outcomes of Education, Interaction, Educational Environment