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Peer reviewedRoche, William K.; And Others – International Labour Review, 1996
Study of the employment effects of reducing working hours, controlling overtime, job sharing, leave, and early retirement in 10 countries found no significant link between job sharing and employment levels. Work time policies need to be considered in a wider context as a way to address high unemployment. (SK)
Descriptors: Early Retirement, Employment Level, Foreign Countries, Job Development
Peer reviewedPeterman, Dana S. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2002
Presents citations on recent program ideas and rationales for including faculty development at community colleges. Reports that some authors view faculty development as necessary to growth, and others see it as beyond the needs of two-year college faculty. Adds that nevertheless, community colleges still attempt to contribute to faculty…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, College Role, Community Colleges
Download full textBoening, Carl H.; Miller, Michael T. – 1997
This paper reviews the literature on college faculty sabbatical leave and sabbatical leave programs often described as 'paid vacations' with no accountability. The literature indicates that sabbatical leave was an important part of any faculty development program. Those who took sabbatical leaves overwhelmingly reported the experience as a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Attitudes, Faculty Development
Kang, Bai; Miller, Michael T. – 1999
This paper reviews the history of sabbatical leave in secondary and postsecondary education, as well as contemporary research on sabbatical leave, and offers some personal narratives of the sabbatical experience. It explains that sabbatical leave programs began at Harvard University in 1880, with professors granted a year of leave at half-pay…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Attitudes, Educational History, Higher Education
Kang, Bai; Miller, Michael T. – 2000
This literature review assesses where higher education is in relation to faculty development and where faculty development efforts need to go. Literature on faculty development has addressed the nature of faculty development in light of faculty needs at various stages of their professional careers. Results suggest that career stage affects…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
Eddy, Margot Sanders – 1981
The innovative actions that faculty, and institutions on behalf of faculty, have taken to adjust to retrenchment and the changing academic profession are considered. It is suggested that faculty have three kinds of employment options to present conditions such as the scarcity of tenure-track positions and the failure of salaries to keep pace with…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Counseling, Change Strategies, College Faculty
Peer reviewedDeBoer, Kee; Culotta, Wendy – College and Research Libraries, 1987
A composite profile of the current academic librarian is created based on a survey of the library literature of the 1980s. Specific topics considered include faculty versus academic status, evaluation criteria, tenure, research support, released time, pressure for and productivity in publishing, and librarians' attitudes toward faculty status.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Academic Rank (Professional), Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
