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Higher-Education Conferees Applaud Carnegie Plan to Broaden the Definition of Faculty Scholarship.
Mooney, Carolyn J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1990
A new Carnegie Foundation report recommends expanding the concept of faculty scholarship to recognize and reward teaching, service, textbook writing, and other faculty activities. Campuses can accommodate faculty's shifting interests by encouraging movement from one activity to another, possibly with short-term contracts spelling out scholarly…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Contracts, Faculty Publishing, Faculty Workload
Syracuse Tries to Involve Others in Teaching-vs.-Research Debate.
Mooney, Carolyn J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
Since Syracuse University (New York) started a campaign to reward teaching, it has entered several related projects, including a national survey on how teaching and research are valued by campus groups, a six-university self-examination of reward systems, and a project asking learned societies to consider a broader view of scholarship. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Faculty Workload, Higher Education, Merit Pay
Critics within and without Academe Assail Professors at Research Universities.
Mooney, Carolyn J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
Intense scrutiny of research university faculty by legislators, college presidents and deans, and others is focusing on professors' autonomy, evaluation, and the balance between research and teaching responsibilities. Economic pressures are compounding the concern over professional and institutional autonomy. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Higher Education, Personal Autonomy
Where Are All Those Faculty Curmudgeons Who Never Met a Dean They Liked?
Mooney, Carolyn J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
A recent meeting of college deans revealed their major concerns to be faculty relations, how to fairly represent both the administration and the faculty, response to inappropriate faculty requests, adjusting faculty workloads fairly, getting faculty support for curriculum changes, staying current in their academic disciplines, and making career…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Attitude Change, Career Development, College Faculty
New U.S. Survey Assembles a Statistical Portrait of the American Professoriate.
Mooney, Carolyn J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1990
A survey of 8,383 full- and part-time faculty was conducted by the U.S. Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics. Attitudes about work, workload, allocation of workload and earned income were examined. The new information, combined with the Carnegie survey, suggests an improvement in the conditions of the faculty. (MLW)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Full Time Faculty
Professors Feel Conflict between Roles in Teaching and Research, Say Students Are Badly Prepared.
Mooney, Carolyn J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1991
A national survey examined opinions of college faculty (n=35,478) on a broad range of issues, including teaching, values, political orientation, and quality of professors' personal lives. Respondents feel a conflict between teaching and research roles, believe their students are badly prepared academically, and think their campuses place a high…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Preparation, College Students