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Lynch, David M.; Bowker, Lee H. – 1985
The viewpoints of graduate deans, continuing education deans, and chief liberal arts academic officers about the relative availability of institutional funds to support teaching and research are compared. Distinctions between research universities and teaching colleges in funding teaching and research activities are also explored, based on the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Instruction, Colleges, Continuing Education
Bowker, Lee H.; Lynch, David M. – 1985
Four strategies that deans and vice-presidents can use to enhance teaching are suggested. The first strategy is to seek out and fund teaching support activities that are the state of the art in each discipline. The second is to reward professors for excellence in teaching more than for excellence in research. Third, administrators should develop…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Instruction, Deans, Faculty Evaluation
Peer reviewedBowker, Lee H.; Lynch, David M. – Teaching Sociology, 1984
National surveys of graduate and social science deans showed that teaching is alleged to be the primary factor in all personnel and resource allocation decisions. However, there is much less support for teaching in practice. Reasons include inadequate funding, the imperfect institutionalization of teaching support structures, and the lack of a…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Decision Making, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria
Bowker, Lee H.; And Others – 1985
A national study of liberal arts academic officers and institutional support of excellence in liberal arts teaching and research was conducted in 1984. Usable questionnaire responses were received from 371 of 738 chief liberal arts academic officers, representing church-related colleges, private colleges, and state colleges. The officers had…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, College Instruction
Bowker, Lee H.; Lynch, David M. – 1985
Information about deans that may be helpful to department chairs is presented, based on the findings of four national surveys of deans. The surveys of social science, graduate, continuing education, and arts and sciences deans covered the deans' role in resource allocation to departments, teaching and research support for faculty, tenure and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Instruction, Deans
Bowker, Lee H.; And Others – 1986
The support of teaching in the liberal arts is examined using data from a random sample of chief liberal arts academic officers of American colleges and universities. Information is presented on 15 categories of faculty support for teaching and research, basic teaching conditions, tenure decisions, and merit salary increases. Differences in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Resources, Expenditures
Lynch, David M.; Bowker, Lee H. – 1984
The responsibility for graduate education and the power and authority structure among graduate deans, college or school deans, departments, and faculty were studied using a sample of 338 schools. Attention was directed to the following concerns: institutional characteristics that are related to the organization and administration of graduate…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, College Faculty
Lynch, David M.; Bowker, Lee H. – 1989
Data gathered from a national survey on the status of adult and continuing education in the United States are presented. Chapters cover: continuing education in 410 institutions of higher education (description of the sample, relationships among institutional characteristics, staffing patterns, and support for grants acquisition); the continuing…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Role, Adult Education, College Administration
Peer reviewedBowker, Lee H.; And Others – Higher Education, 1987
A survey of chief liberal arts academic officers in U.S. colleges and universities gathered information on support to faculty for teaching and research, basic teaching conditions, tenure decisions, and merit salary increases and compared it with institutional characteristics. Findings suggest liberal arts are in poor health on American campuses.…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Educational Quality, Educational Resources
