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Adams, Olin L., III; Guarino, A. J.; Robichaux, Rebecca R.; Edwards, Toni L. – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2004
This paper explores the nature and extent of outsourcing by higher education institutions, benefits and challenges associated with outsourcing, and the implications of outsourcing for effective management. The principal investigator conducted a national study of outsourcing by four-year colleges and universities at two points in time, 1998-99 and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Privatization, Contracts, Performance Factors
Wolf, W. Shapard, Jr.; Richardson, Richard C., Jr. – 1986
A new typology for faculty is proposed, based on their expressed priorities toward activities in which research universities engage. Responses of 617 faculty to a survey of 66 statements about university activities were factor analyzed, and scores on eight factors obtained were used in a cluster analysis that produced three clusters of faculty.…
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, College Faculty, Departments