If cash-strapped universities want an easy way to save money, Lawrence B. Martin, a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has an idea. By tallying faculty output in areas such as publication rates in scientific journals, Mr. Martin has concluded that there could be as much as $1-billion to $2-billion in…

In October 2010, the University of Southern California School of Social Work entered the online education environment with the launch of the first national web-based MSW program. After an initial enrollment of 80 students, in just 3 years this state-of-the-art MSW, offered in a technology-advanced synchronous and asynchronous format, has generated…

Any university that is seriously committed to equity must value faculty contributions to diversity made through teaching, research, and service. If diversity is truly part of the core academic mission, it should be included in the criteria used to evaluate and reward faculty achievement. Toward this end, the faculty of the University of…

Combining salary data for permanent non-emeritus faculty at seven departments of political science within the University of California system with lifetime citation counts and other individual-level data from the Masuoka, Grofman, and Feld (2007a) study of faculty at Ph.D.-granting political science departments in the United States, I analyze…

The key to tenure is evaluation; this paper is the result of dissatisfaction with the basic pattern of evaluation that prevails throughout California. The present Quality Control Model of Faculty Development is widespread, deeply entrenched, and grounded on assumptions and premises that are limited, obsolete, and contrary to the interests of…

The voluntary use of behavioral (performance) objectives by many instructors at Golden West College, California, provides a unique and effective approach to instructional supervision. Because the instructor meets periodically throughout the semester with his division chairman and dean of instruction to discuss objectives and student Performance, …

A 4-week Sequenced Peer Teaching program for experienced faculty members of Ohlone College (California) was designed to bring faculty together for the development and/or improvement of teaching. The program included the teaching of a sequence of assignments by individual participants to a class of peers. The teaching was video-taped and replayed…

The passage of the Rodda Bill (SB 696, 1971 legislative session) mandated that evaluation of teaching take place on a regular basis in community colleges in California. The bill left the formulation of the evaluation instruments to the local governing boards and guidelines were provided by the office of the Chancellor of the California Community…

The costs incurred at Antelope Valley Community College (California) in evaluating the performance of college faculty members for the 1972-73 school year are summarized. Evaluation fell into two phases--implementation and operation. Implementation involved the issuance of written procedures, necessary forms, the purchase of equipment and supplies,…

In reaction to the passage of the Rodda Bill (SB 696, 1971 legislative session), this study concentrates on the instruments and procedures proposed for use in evaluating faculty at Glendale College (California). The two proposals analyzed are administrative viewpoint and faculty opinion. The purpose of this paper is threefold: (1) to measure the…

A statewide survey was conducted of local evaluation policies, procedures, and problems of implementing evaluation programs on the campuses of California community colleges. The following areas were studied: (1) the process of development of the evaluation program; (2) procedures utilized in the first year of implementing Senate Bill 696…

This report highlights recommendations to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for new minimum standards in the areas of instructional programs, faculty and facilities. Part I describes prior attempts to address the question of minimum standards in the community colleges and responds to the Educational Policy Committee's…

A brief history is provided of the efforts undertaken in California to devise alternatives to the current rules concerning credentials, tenures, and evaluation for faculty and administrators, along with a comparison of the recommendations emanating from two legislatively mandated studies of these issues. First, historical background is presented…

A case in which California's constitutional right to privacy is used to protect confidential peer review files is analyzed, and the case's significance and possible ramifications for discovery requests of peer review files are discussed. (MSE)

In order to gain information on the employment of part-time faculty, a survey instrument was designed and mailed to all of the two-year colleges in California. A total of 86 percent of the questionnaires were returned, and results were extrapolated to provide a statewide picture. Part-time faculty were found to constitute a sizable and growing…