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Peer reviewedGappa, Judith M. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1999
The faculty career is changing in response to external and internal pressures. Discusses pressures for institutional change, current faculty demographics, and possible institutional responses including modifications to traditional tenure systems (changes to the probationary period and time base of tenure, productivity concerns) and faculty career…
Descriptors: Careers, College Faculty, Educational Trends, Faculty College Relationship
Direct linkLeslie, David W.; Gappa, Judith M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2002
Discusses differences between part- and full-time faculty demographics, work profiles, attitudes and motives, and opinions about teaching and learning in the community college. Asserts that investing in part-time faculty's capabilities, instead of treating them like replaceable parts, will yield long-term returns in teaching effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Cohort Analysis, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Gappa, Judith M.; Leslie, David W. – 1993
This book examines the practices that support and enhance the value of part-time faculty both in and outside the college classroom, offering 43 specific recommendations to help institutions plan and manage their use of part-timers, develop fair employment policies, and invest in part-timers as valued human resources contributing to the quality of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Employment Patterns
Gappa, Judith M.; Leslie, David W. – 1997
This paper, one in a series about the priorities of the professoriate, traces the rise in the use of part-time faculty and asks whether academic employment has become a dual labor market. Data for the study was derived from the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. The research focuses on the effects on part-time faculty and on educational…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Educational Quality, Employment Patterns
Gappa, Judith M.; MacDermid, Shelley M. – 1997
This paper, one in a series about the priorities of the professoriate, examines work-family issues as they affect faculty recruitment, retention, and productivity. Following a brief discussion of changing work-force demographics, the first part of the paper examines the structure of an academic career, focusing particularly on junior faculty and…
Descriptors: Careers, College Faculty, Dual Career Family, Faculty College Relationship
Women in Academe: Steps to Greater Equality. AAHE-ERIC/Higher Education Research Report No. 1, 1979.
PDF pending restorationGappa, Judith M.; Uehling, Barbara S. – 1979
A review of current research and literature about women in higher education is presented in this monograph in the context of equality of opportunity. The following areas are addressed: the status of women students, institutional practices that affect the participation of women students, the socialization process, women's studies and women's…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Affirmative Action, Bibliographies, Civil Rights
Gappa, Judith M. – 1996
This paper, one in a series about the priorities of the professoriate, explores several alternatives to tenure for faculty and institutions. Data for the study was drawn from a series of site visits to seven institutions during winter/spring 1995-96. Seventy-one interviews were conducted with administrators, senior faculty, and full-time…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Academic Rank (Professional), Career Development, Career Ladders
