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Elaine Stratford; Phillipa Watson; Brett Paull – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Early career academics face a rapidly changing higher education sector and too little is known about what helps them flourish in the profession. This paper responds to that gap by reporting research undertaken in a single or intrinsic case study of one Australian university. We invited participation from a full cohort of 1019 academics in one…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Career Development, Family Work Relationship, Barriers
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Perez, Rosemary J.; Haley, Jarett D. – New Directions for Student Services, 2021
This article explores supervision as a form of professional socialization. Accordingly, we provide an overview of socialization theories before examining the role of supervisors in (re)socializing student affairs educators to norms, values, and standards of good practice in the field and in their workplaces over the span of their careers.
Descriptors: Power Structure, Student Personnel Workers, Supervision, Socialization
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Krsmanovic, Masha – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2022
The experiences of international scholars in the United States who are part of short-term or exchange programs remain vastly under-investigated compared to their full-time, tenure-track, and tenured peers. Guided by Blau's (1964) social exchange theory, this study investigated professional and social experiences of exchange scholars at a large…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Exchange Programs, Teacher Attitudes, Tenure
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Sam, Cecile H.; Elder, Brent C.; Leftwich, Stacey – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021
Using a qualitative interview design and the conceptual framework of an engaged campus (Furco, 2010), this article examines the engaged scholarship of contingent academics in a university-community partnership with several professional development schools in the United States. This article highlights some facets that make their engaged scholarship…
Descriptors: Universities, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Campuses
Asio, J. M. R.; Jimenez, E. C. – Online Submission, 2020
This study aimed to analyze the professional development, organizational climate, supervisory rapport, and overall satisfaction of employees from a local higher education institution in Central Luzon, Philippines. This study made use of a descriptive-correlational design with an adapted and modified survey questionnaire as an instrument and…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Job Satisfaction, Employee Attitudes, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Patricia Gonzalez – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The overall goal of this study was to understand the motivating and organizational barriers that contribute to the turnover of Black, Indigenous, and student affairs professionals of color at predominantly White institutions of higher education. This problem of practice employed a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews of Black,…
Descriptors: Predominantly White Institutions, School Personnel, Recruitment, Persistence
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Tan, Chin Pei; Howes, Dora; Tan, Rendell K. W.; Dancza, Karina M. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
Interactive oral assessments demonstrate potential to develop graduate attributes such as critical thinking, professional communication and collaborative skills in students through authentic simulation of workplace scenarios. This study captured the design, delivery and evaluation of interactive oral assessments across three programmes --…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Interaction, Critical Thinking, Communication Skills
Porter, Anne Marie; Walsh, Courtney; Ivie, Rachel – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2022
As documented in the National Academies' 2020 astronomy decadal survey report, harassment and discrimination continue to be problems in astronomical employment and educational settings. In order to document the types of harassment and discrimination in astronomy and the context in which these behaviors occur, this report describes an analysis of…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Education, Graduate Students, Longitudinal Studies
Modern Language Association, 2021
The report of the MLA Task Force on Ethical Conduct in Graduate Education calls on administrators, departments, and faculty members to embrace "student-centered graduate education informed by an ethics of care." To confront long-standing issues in graduate education--such as precarity, bias and favoritism, harassment, mental health,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Professional Associations, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Machado-Taylor, Maria de Lourdes; White, Kate; Gouveia, Odilia – Higher Education Policy, 2014
Academic work in higher education has been influenced by global trends such as accountability, massification and deteriorating financial support. Within this broader context, the performance of academic staff as teachers and researchers has an impact on student learning and implications for the quality of higher education institutions (HEIs).…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, College Faculty, Gender Differences, Work Environment
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Opstrup, Niels; Pihl-Thingvad, Signe – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
Academic work has traditionally been seen as relatively stress free. However, a growing number of studies have reported increases in occupational stress experienced by university researchers. In order to explain stress among this group, we build on a new perspective in occupational stress research: the so-called stress-as-offence-to-self…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Work Environment, Researchers, Universities
Hudson, Barbara Krall – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty are playing an increasingly larger role in the instruction of students in higher education. They provide a flexible workforce with specialized expertise, often prefer to work part-time and frequently teach large introductory courses. Concerns about their treatment and the environment in which they work are often…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Clavert, Maria; Björklund, Tua; Nevgi, Anne – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
In universities, development as a teacher may be contradicted with developing as a researcher. Most previous studies have investigated pedagogical development merely as a result of pedagogical training and ignored the dual teacher-researcher identity. This study examines what kind of meaningful experiences are perceived to have triggered and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Science Teachers, Teaching (Occupation), Interviews
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Osakwe, Regina N. – International Education Studies, 2014
This study determined the factors affecting motivation and job satisfaction of non-management academic staff of universities in South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria. It employed an expost-facto research design. Three research questions and two hypotheses were raised for the study. A sample of four hundred and fifty non-management academic…
Descriptors: Motivation, Job Satisfaction, College Faculty, Hypothesis Testing
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Hardre, Patricia L. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Community college faculty members often find themselves divided between what they want to do and what they can do. Knowing what motivates faculty to engage in professional development and scholarly productive activities provides critical information for administrators. The present study explored the motivational characteristics of community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Mission, Professional Development, College Faculty
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