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Morling, Beth; Lee, Jeong Min – Teaching of Psychology, 2020
What do university students understand about faculty work? Undergraduate (mostly first-year) students (N = 317) at a research university gave definitions of tenure, estimated how much time faculty spend teaching, and rated fictional faculty members. Most students could define tenure but could not describe how it is earned or its role in academic…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Academic Freedom, Social Status, Faculty Workload
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Morling, Beth; Lee, Jeong Min – Teaching of Psychology, 2020
Full-time teaching-focused faculty at research universities may hold alternative titles such as Assistant Teaching Professor, Instructor, or Lecturer. We manipulated the title of a fictitious faculty target to investigate how such titles are perceived. Student and lay respondents (N = 317) respected and liked all targets, and their ratings did not…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional)
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Caye, Joanne S.; de Saxe Zerden, Lisa – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
Throughout U.S. higher education, non-tenure track faculty (NTTF) are experiencing tremendous growth. Traditionally part-time instructors, increasing numbers of NTTF are full-time faculty but have lower salaries, fewer benefits, and less integration into their schools than tenure-track peers. Although this general trend is reflected in schools of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty
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Höhle, Ester – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Academic career paths in Europe are heterogeneous, and the chances for early career researchers to become a permanent member of the academic profession differ from country to country. In some countries, the employment prospects are very insecure. It is asked whether contract conditions at universities influence the chance of taking over a mature…
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Comparative Analysis, Influences, Contracts
Walden, Patrick R.; Bryan, Valerie C. – Journal of Research Administration, 2010
The purpose of this investigation was to identify College of Education (COE) faculty members' perceptions of motivators and barriers to grant writing at a public university in the South, to compare the university's COE faculty perceptions to previously published survey results of Colleges of Education at Research I institutions, and to compare…
Descriptors: Grantsmanship, Schools of Education, Reputation, Teaching Load
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Williams, Gwen B.; Zirkel, Perry A. – Research in Higher Education, 1988
Faculty collective bargaining contracts were analyzed at institutions of higher education that had a history of collective bargaining to determine whether contracts negotiated in 1975 significantly differed from those negotiated in 1985 with regard to academic items including employment decisions, teaching load, nonteaching responsibilities,…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Kirshstein, Rita J.; Matheson, Nancy; Jing, Zhongren; Zimbler, Linda J. – 1997
This report compares findings from faculty surveys conducted as part of the 1987-88 National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty, which is limited to faculty and staff with instructional responsibilities, and the 1992-93 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, which includes instructional as well as noninstructional faculty. In particular, the report…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Compensation (Remuneration)