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Direct linkWhite-Lewis, Damani K.; O'Meara, KerryAnn; Mathews, Kiernan; Havey, Nicholas – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Although research has revealed many factors that predict faculty turnover, the literature is often limited by using intent to leave as a proxy for actual turnover, and further by consolidating faculty who leave institutions with faculty who leave the occupation. We resolve these limitations and advance the faculty mobility literature by studying…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Transfer, Decision Making, Sex
O'Meara, KerryAnn – Research in Higher Education, 2015
This institutional case study examines the influence of a policy requiring outside offers for faculty salary increases on institutional retention efforts and faculty organizational commitment. Outside offers and policies governing them are rarely examined, and studied here from the perspective of administrators, leaving faculty, and faculty who…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, College Faculty, Teacher Persistence, Administrator Attitudes
Jaeger, Audrey J.; Mitchall, Allison; O'Meara, KerryAnn; Grantham, Ashley; Zhang, Jingjing; Eliason, Jennifer; Cowdery, Kelly – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2017
This study examined and enriched our understanding of the career choice process for doctoral students of color in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. In addition, it explored the challenges facing all doctoral students in STEM in understanding and making meaning of diversity as it relates to individual perspectives and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Race, Ethnicity, Career Choice
Campbell, Corbin M.; O'Meara, KerryAnn – Research in Higher Education, 2014
In a modern context of constrained resources and high demands, faculty exert agency to strategically navigate their careers (Baez 2000a; Neumann et al. 2006). Guided by the O'Meara et al. (2011) framework on agency in faculty professional lives, this study used Structural Equation Modeling to investigate which departmental factors…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Individual Power, Career Development, Structural Equation Models
O'Meara, KerryAnn; Lounder, Andrew; Campbell, Corbin M. – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
This article analyzes sensemaking about faculty departure among administrators, faculty colleagues, and faculty leavers in one research university. A mixed methods database was analyzed to reveal four dominant explanations for faculty departure and two influences on sensemaking. Dominant explanations included better opportunities, the likelihood…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Research Universities, Administrators
Terosky, Aimee LaPointe; O'Meara, KerryAnn; Campbell, Corbin M. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2014
In this multimethod, qualitative study we examined associate women professors' sense of agency in career advancement from the rank of associate to full. Defining agency as strategic perspectives or actions toward goals that matter to the professor, we explore the perceptions of what helps and/or hinders a sense of agency in career advancement. Our…
Descriptors: Career Development, Women Faculty, Qualitative Research, Academic Rank (Professional)
