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Sharanjit Uppal; Darcy Hango – Statistics Canada, 2022
This study uses 2019 data from the University and College Academic Staff System to examine gender differences in tenure status among faculty in Canadian universities. It also uses the Survey of Postsecondary Faculty and Researchers to examine feelings of fairness in hiring and promotions. (1) In 2019, almost 6 in 10 full-time university faculty…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Tenure, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Church, Bret; Simmering, Luke – Kansas Association of School Boards, 2022
A growing educator shortage is having significant impacts in schools and communities throughout the United States. In response to this growing concern, the Kansas Teacher Retention Initiative was launched in the summer of 2021, with a focus on measuring, understanding, interpreting, and disseminating data-driven insights regarding the driving…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2011
The year 2011 was no ordinary year for teacher policy. In fact, it was a year like no other chronicled by the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ) "State Teacher Policy Yearbook". This fifth annual edition of the Yearbook documents more changes in state teacher policy than NCTQ has seen in any of its previous top-to-bottom reviews of the…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Educational Policy, Teacher Effectiveness, Preservice Teacher Education
Lowe, James D., Jr.; Anderson, Douglas – 1980
Using a questionnaire designed to elicit information on factors relating to career enhancement, 438 faculty members of departments of psychology in the southeastern United States were questioned concerning: major area of expertise; rank; tenure status; teaching load; opportunities for summer teaching; general tenure requirements; relationship of…
Descriptors: Careers, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Faculty Workload
Harder, Martha – 1981
The results of a survey of 65 colleges of education on how they evaluated the productivity of their faculty are reported. Most of the responding institutions agreed with a definition of productivity as the sum of all activities which are related either directly or indirectly to professional duties, responsibilities, and interests. The 21 doctoral…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Decision Making, Educational Researchers
Burkhardt, Geoffrey – 1981
An analysis of policy options concerning teacher supply and demand in the A.C.T. [Australian Capital Territory] Schools Authority from 1981 to 1986 is presented. Projections have indicated declining demand for primary school teachers, fewer promotions in primary schools, and the necessity of relocating teachers to areas of expansion. However,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Countries, Long Range Planning