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Direct linkRosser, Vicki J. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2000
Provides an overview of who midlevel administrators are and why they are important to academic organizations, identifies those issues that affect the quality of their work lives, and suggests new areas for research on administrators. (EV)
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Higher Education
Froh, Robert C.; And Others – New Directions for Higher Education, 1993
A faculty survey suggests that college climate can help maximize faculty effectiveness. Institutions are making use of the intrinsic rewards of academic work to improve its quality, by helping faculty reach new levels of understanding and mutual learning with students, accomplish greater mastery of content, and find successful new teaching…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty Development
Janson, Natasha – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
Phased retirement policies are more or less attractive financially and more or less accommodating of individual differences. They are also implemented in varying ways, variations that especially affect departments and academic programs.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Retirement, Individual Differences, Educational Policy
Allen, Steven G.; Clark, Robert L.; Ghent, Linda S. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
The implications of the policy choices made in setting up a phased retirement system are demonstrated by its variety of outcomes. (Contains 5 tables.)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Retirement, Age Discrimination, Individual Differences
Leslie, David W. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2005
Individuals who retire have widely varying needs and differ also in their preparedness for their new conditions.
Descriptors: Retirement, College Faculty, Individual Differences, Educational Policy
Townsend, Robert B. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2003
Based on an extensive survey of the numbers, salaries, and benefits of part-time and non-tenure-track faculty in ten academic disciplines, a November 2000 report from the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) clarified how colleges and universities depend on contingent labor and how inadequately many of these faculty are supported. A group of…
Descriptors: Part Time Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Higher Education
Smith, Earl – New Directions for Higher Education, 2004
This chapter examines aspects of the life of the chair after the person returns to full-time service as a faculty member. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Department Heads, College Faculty, Administrative Change, Career Change
