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Alex Benjamin Monday – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In 2016, over 40,000 pages of new research were printed across only 86 of the hundreds of higher education specific journals (Tight, 2018). Perhaps that means this field of study knows a lot, but maybe it means we know very little. Journal publishing is integral to the construction of academic fields, job markets, and policy making. However, not…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Higher Education, Faculty Publishing, Educational Research
Jordan Anthony Jaeger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
All university faculty pursuing scholarly goals tackle complex tasks over long periods, yet some must overcome additional adversity and challenges to succeed. Recent studies have measured faculty research success according to their self-reported accomplishments in research activities, publications, and grant writing, and motivation was a predictor…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Faculty Publishing, College Faculty, Barriers
Mysti D. Reneau – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study is to understand how community college faculty make meaning of their experiences with grants in order to expand their professional identity as Principal Investigators (PIs) and co-Principal Investigators (co-PIs). Extramural funding provides resources to community colleges that supplement support for teaching and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Grants, Grantsmanship
Linnea Angelica Spitzer – ProQuest LLC, 2021
More women than ever are earning doctoral degrees and are taking research or teaching positions at universities. However, the number of tenured women in full professorships have not yet achieved parity with the number of men in similar positions. Of the many reasons proposed for the disproportionate representation of women in the higher ranks of…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Higher Education, Disproportionate Representation
Launey Patton Griffith – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation is a qualitative inquiry that explores the faculty perspectives of institutional expectations at a university seeking to rise in research ranking. This study was initiated with the intent to synthesize the literature to understand the reasons why doctoral universities seek to increase their research ranking, as well as the…
Descriptors: Universities, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty, Institutional Advancement
Alan Blaine Earhart – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In the 2017-2018 academic year, 332,727 U.S. university students participated in a study abroad program in a foreign country (Institute of International Education, 2018). Many of these students attend courses taught by part-time faculty, hired locally by study abroad centers with affiliations to U.S. universities. The directors of these centers…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Study Abroad, Administrators