Background: The University of California system has a novel tenure-track education-focused faculty position called Lecturer with Security of Employment (working titles: Teaching Professor or Professor of Teaching). We focus on the potential difference in implementation of active-learning strategies by faculty type, including tenure-track…

The mission of community colleges is to create affordable pathways for students to enter the workforce or transfer into 4-year universities. However, community colleges have not been successful in efforts to assist Students of Color in completing an associate degree or transferring. Therefore, efforts have been made to increase the number of…

This study investigates 10-year trends in instructional faculty salaries by sex and rank for USF, five SUS Peers (UF, FSU, FIU, UCF, FAU) and eight National Peers (North Carolina State, Alabama-Birmingham, Illinois-Chicago, California-Irvine, SUNY-Stony Brook, SUNY-Buffalo, Cincinnati, Rutgers). Methods: Historical instructional faculty salary…

Objective: The authors investigated professional development needs of faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California (UC) Davis, while also exploring any existing differences according to gender and academic rank. Methods: An online survey was sent to 75 faculty members, and 41 responses (17 women,…

Report of ALA Committee investigating the controversy over faculty status and salaries for librarians in the California State College System. Recommends adoption of their demands in principle until financial conditions are more favorable. (JS)

The Commission regularly conducts a study on faculty salaries in California's public universities as compared with faculty salaries at comparable institutions. This study presents estimates of the percentage changes in faculty salaries that would enable California faculty to attain parity with their comparison groups in the coming fiscal year. The…

Annually, in accordance with Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 51 of the 1965 General Legislative Session, the California State University and the University of California submit to the California Postsecondary Education Commission information on faculty salaries for their respective institutions and for a set of comparison colleges and…

Information is presented on the employment, classification, and compensation of ethnic minorities and women in California public postsecondary institutions in 1977, 1979, and 1981. The report is divided into separate sections for the University of California, the State University, and the California community colleges. Within each section, data is…

The Scholars-in-the-Schools program (SIS), previously known as Humanities-in-the-Schools (HIS), is designed to improve humanities education by placing humanities scholars in residence at a middle school or high school. The scholar works with teachers and students as a resource person in a variety of ways: as a curriculum consultant; lecturer;…

The way in which Hispanic-American women adapt and cope with the organizational conditions within California colleges was studied. The 30 respondents (8 in the professorial ranks and 22 in the support services) were administered a questionnaire to determine their position, training and experience, and the respondents' views on the position and…

In 1989, a study was conducted of faculty salaries at California's San Joaquin Delta Community College (SJDCC). Salary results were compared with community college districts in the State of California, with two specially selected subgroups of colleges comparable to SJDCC, and with all of California's major public and private four-year…

Most colleges and universities have a tripartite mission composed of teaching, research, and service. For faculty seeking tenure, though, this mission can seem very heavily weighted toward research. In fact, the phrase "publish or perish" is widely understood both inside and outside the academy as the primary path to a successful career…

The four papers in this annual volume on the history of higher education cover some of the changes that evolved over the years in various U.S. institutions. The first paper is: "The Harvard Tutors: The Beginning of an Academic Profession, 1690-1825" (John D. Burton), which discusses the shift from Harvard's original tutorship model to…

In the fall of 1976, questionnaires were mailed to 99 occupational education administrators in California community colleges in order to ascertain whether there were differences in these individual's responsibilities and job duties from college to college. Responses were received from 81 of those surveyed, a rate of 80%. Results of the survey…

The California Community College (CCC) system is the largest two-year higher education system in the United States, providing courses to over 1.7 million students and employing more than 85,000 persons (in 2002). At the request of Senator Alarcon, this report analyzes staffing patterns in California's community colleges. Based on data from 1994 to…