Organizational pressures influence the restructuring of the academic workforce. This chapter describes the key factors associated with increased hiring of contingent faculty.

Institutional researchers might know more about non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty than leaders on many college campuses, particularly four-year institutions and research universities (Cross and Goldenberg, 2009). As such, institutional researchers play an important role in educating campus leaders about this growing segment of the academic workforce.…

Among the varied analytical challenges institutional researchers face, examining faculty pay may be one of the most vexing. Although the literature on faculty compensation analysis dates back to the 1970s (Loeb and Ferber, 1971; Gordon, Morton, and Braden, 1974; Scott, 1977; Braskamp and Johnson, 1978; McLaughlin, Smart, and Montgomery, 1978),…

Colleges and universities will be reshaped somewhat as they change their approach to the increasingly complex and critical issue of faculty resource management in the next 10-15 years. The challenge for institutional researchers in this context is less to predict the future than to help shape it. (Author/MSE)

A variety of measurement, modeling, and forecasting methodologies can be adapted to academic staffing based on the unique role and function of faculty as human resources and the distinctive organizational characteristics of colleges and universities. (Author/MSE)

Faculty development programs have generally failed to become a permanent fixture in colleges' organizational structure, largely due to outdated personnel policies. A flow concept of planning, focusing not on individuals but on personnel slots determined by program design, allows for flexibility and reflects the realities of contemporary academic…

Reviews the literature on factors that influence job satisfaction, life satisfaction, inter-role conflict, and stress of student affairs administrators. Recommends restructuring the work environment to allow more flexibility, a better understanding of women's work experience, developing recruitment and hiring policies responsive to changing needs,…

An examination of recent experiences in the varied institutions of The University of Wisconsin System suggests valuable lessons regarding the impact of various approaches to faculty reduction. Principal provisions of retrenchment regulations are summarized. (Author/LB)

Sound management of human resources requires policies and procedures that are developed carefully and applied consistently. Monitoring personnel decisions and developing databases that document their outcomes will help ensure that such decisions are not only made fairly but are perceived so by faculty. (Author/MSE)

Employment of part-time, temporary, and non-tenure track faculty can be hazardous to programs, institutions, individuals, and even the character of the academic profession, but in some situations, when carefully applied, it may lead to substantial benefits. (Author/MSE)

The agenda for a vital professoriate in an era of great changes in higher education requires of administrators a long-term perspective on faculty careers, from graduate school through retirement. Faculty renewal can be positively affected by the actions and decisions of individuals and institutional officers. (Author/MSE)

The task of building the future professoriate can be facilitated by giving attention to important dimensions of affirmative action developed since 1972. Institutional researchers can help satisfy legal mandates on affirmative action and fulfill ethical and moral commitments to equity while meeting the unique needs of their institutions.…

A variety of incentives offered to faculty to leave an institution in difficult financial circumstances are outlined. They include: liberalizing the actuarial pension reduction, lump-sum severance payments, annuity enhancements, phased retirement, retirement perquisites, retraining for outplacement, paid retraining, and earnings supplements during…

Demographics and trends most relevant to further analysis of the faculty marketplace are highlighted in an annotated bibliography of books, articles, periodic reports, research projects, and databases. (Author/MSE)

The issue of maintaining institutional vitality through the development of faculty confronts higher education with a new set of problems. Higher education should reexamine its basic premises on employee expectations and look at career paths of other professionals in other kinds of organizations. What is needed is a healthy flow of people through…