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Morling, Beth; Lee, Jeong Min – Teaching of Psychology, 2020
What do university students understand about faculty work? Undergraduate (mostly first-year) students (N = 317) at a research university gave definitions of tenure, estimated how much time faculty spend teaching, and rated fictional faculty members. Most students could define tenure but could not describe how it is earned or its role in academic…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Academic Freedom, Social Status, Faculty Workload
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Morling, Beth; Lee, Jeong Min – Teaching of Psychology, 2020
Full-time teaching-focused faculty at research universities may hold alternative titles such as Assistant Teaching Professor, Instructor, or Lecturer. We manipulated the title of a fictitious faculty target to investigate how such titles are perceived. Student and lay respondents (N = 317) respected and liked all targets, and their ratings did not…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional)
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Von Bergen, C. W.; Bressler, Martin S. – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2017
Tenure, promotion, significant salary increases, let alone stature and recognition in one's field, are often dependent on the quantity and quality of research articles faculty members produce. In addition, research grants, text and professional publications may be dependent upon intellectual contributions and often equated with research published…
Descriptors: Ethics, Tenure, Faculty Promotion, Salaries
Yordy, Kelly A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the effects of career related stress on higher education faculty members' achievement of a healthy balance between their personal lives and professional lives. Data from the 2013-2014 HERI Faculty Survey were analyzed to determine if any of the eight independent variables--lack of personal…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Family Work Relationship, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Academe, 1987
The American Association of University Professors statement concerns policies and practices that open senior academic appointments to persons with reduced workloads and salaries without loss of status. (MSE)
Descriptors: Age, College Faculty, Employment Practices, Faculty College Relationship
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Morrow, Robert D. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 1990
Describes a study of workload policies and practices in California schools of education, identifying emerging workload issues for developing fair workload policies. Findings include teaching loads and workloads are not synonymous; public and private university policies differ; and teaching is the main criterion in evaluation of faculty members.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Promotion, Faculty Workload, Higher Education
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Schwartz, Misty – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2006
In this article, the author discusses issues involving women in higher education related to the promotion and tenure process. Institutions of higher education have always had the freedom to decide who may teach, what may be taught, and how it will be taught. As a result, courts have been reluctant to become involved in academic matters. One…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Females, Faculty Promotion, Tenure
Duerr, Bradly; Bell, Robert – 1977
To determine if the faculty of the Washington State Community College System were being efficiently and effectively utilized, a Legislative Budget Committee auditor selected six community colleges for a detailed review. Data selected for review were (1) individual faculty teaching loads and (2) course offerings. The auditor concluded that faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Efficiency, Faculty Workload
1977
The agreement reached between the Long Island University and its professional employees represented by the Collegial Federation is presented. Items covered in the agreement include: academic freedom; recognition; statutes, standards, and past practices; management rights; non-discrimination; promotion; tenure; academic year, vacations, and…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Silvers, Philip J.; Attinasi, Louis C., Jr.; McGregor, Ellen N. – 1998
The Office of Research and Planning at Pima Community College surveyed 15 community colleges from throughout the United States in order to elicit information on the workload and compensation of full-time faculty. The following 10 findings are based on the 12 colleges that provided data in response to the survey: (1) institutions on a semester…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Policy
Kirshstein, Rita J.; Matheson, Nancy; Jing, Zhongren; Zimbler, Linda J. – 1997
This report compares findings from faculty surveys conducted as part of the 1987-88 National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty, which is limited to faculty and staff with instructional responsibilities, and the 1992-93 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, which includes instructional as well as noninstructional faculty. In particular, the report…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration)