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Finkelstein, Martin J.; Conley, Valerie Martin; Schuster, Jack H. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2017
In the past few decades, especially since the 2008-09 economic downturn, the faculty of American colleges and universities has undergone a far-reaching transformation. Multiple factors, mainly extraneous to the campus itself, are reshaping higher education, and as a result a reprioritizing of the internal allocation of resources is occurring. The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Teacher Role, Socialization
Wilson, Marnie; Gadbois, Shannon; Nichol, Kathleen – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
This article examined issues and implications associated with gender parity in the professoriate. The findings, based on the results from one Canadian institution's most recent women's committee report, emphasize the importance of monitoring progress toward gender parity by examining potential indicators of gender imbalances such as gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Gender Bias
Ornstein, Michael; Stewart, Penni; Drakich, Janice – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2007
Statistics Canada's annual census of full-time faculty at all Canadian universities, between 1984 to 1999, is used to measure the effect of gender, discipline, and institution on promotion from assistant to associate professor and from associate to full professor. Accelerated failure time models show that gender has some effect on rates of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Intellectual Disciplines, Institutional Characteristics, Foreign Countries