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Claire Marie Ostrander – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This executive dissertation assumes a sensemaking lens to investigate how Assistant and Associate Vice President (AVP)-level administrators in student affairs approach their supervisory roles within the current climate of higher education and employment. The study's primary goal is to identify how leaders can prepare for changing employment trends…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Student Personnel Services, Staff Role, Higher Education
Gwilym Croucher; Elizabeth Baré; Kenneth Moore – Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2025
The use of casual contract employment has become a prominent feature in higher education institutions worldwide, including the growth of adjunct roles in the United States and fixed-term teaching staff positions in the UK. In Australia, this trend has been a subject of significant controversy and national attention in recent years, as casual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
Small, Lynlea; Shacklock, Kate; Marchant, Teresa – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2018
Higher education institutions are under pressure to produce employable graduates who are required to contribute to the sustainability of strong economic growth and development. As such, the onus is on the higher education sector to present graduates to the labour market who are both work ready and have attained employability. This article…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Stakeholders, Employment Potential, Employment Practices
Kezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2012
The nature of the American academic workforce has fundamentally shifted over the past several decades. Whereas full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty were once the norm, more than two-thirds of the professoriate in non-profit postsecondary education is now comprised of non-tenure-track faculty. New hires across all institutional types are now…
Descriptors: Tenure, Outcomes of Education, Interaction, Educational Environment
Jacobe, Monica F. – Academe, 2006
This article reports the findings of a 1999 survey conducted by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW), a group of higher education and disciplinary associations concerned about the dramatic rise in contingent faculty, to examine the staffing practices across eleven humanities and social science disciplines. The comprehensive report showed…
Descriptors: School Surveys, College Faculty, Tenure, Employment Practices
Ezorsky, Gertrude – New York Review of Books, 1974
Discusses the gap which exists between women trained and women hired by major universities, and the general condition of sex discrimination which exists in most universities. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Equal Education, Females
Heller, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
In most institutions, the faculty hiring process discourages affirmative action. The determination of top administrators is a key factor in success. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Affirmative Action, College Environment
Vetter, Betty M. – Professional Engineer, 1980
Examines differences in unemployment rates and salaries between comparable men and women in science and engineering. Analyzes the current job market in science and engineering, explains the impact of federal appropriation decisions in this area, and predicts the supply and demand imbalances among scientists and engineers for the forseeable future.…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Engineering Education

Chemical and Engineering News, 1990
Reported are the results of a survey of the economic status of members of the American Chemical Society. Included are employment, salaries, satisfaction, and the status of women in chemical occupations. (CW)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Science, Demand Occupations, Employment Patterns
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. – 1970
Section I of this report on the status of women at Harvard discusses the inclusion of women in the faculty, administration, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Women are underrepresented at the highest and most visible levels of the faculty. Though women constitute roughly 20 percent of the students taught in the Faculty of Arts and…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Faculty Promotion, Faculty Recruitment
George, Janet – Vestes, 1982
Because of attitudes and policies, women academics are clustered in service rather than career areas of their professions. The social and academic results of this underrepresentation include the loss of valuable contributions from women. Policy areas needing change are employment conditions, inclusion in decision making, and child care. (MSE)
Descriptors: Careers, College Faculty, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Services. – 1990
This SPEC KIT presents survey results and documents from 53 U.S. academic members of the Association of Research Libraries in 1990 who provided current information on student employment policies and practices. The survey results identify the following employment policies and practices: (1) funding sources and wages; (2) duties and rewards; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Higher Education
Gerlich, Bella Karr – Library Administration and Management, 2002
Considers the cost of employing student temporary workers in academic libraries and suggests they be replaced with fewer full-time staff. Topics include the trend toward contingent, or temporary, employment; management problems; core employees; cost effectiveness of student employment, including poor productivity and training needs; and evaluating…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices

Allen, Claudia – Journal of Career Planning & Employment, 1995
Ann McLaughlin, a former secretary of labor, discusses her views on the future of the workplace. She feels that to solve the impending problem of educational deficits among the work force, employers will begin their own educational programs, improving both employee loyalty and work force mobility. Includes predictions for future growth fields.…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Higher Education

Sutherland, Margaret B. – Comparative Education, 1985
Interviews were conducted with 244 women teaching in universities in Finland, France, East Germany, West Germany, and Great Britain to discover causes for the minority position of women who teach in universities. Women's position appeared to depend not on characteristics of individual educational systems but on common factors--social attitudes,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)