Two suggestions are offered for alleviating the apparent stagnation of departments in Australian universities: a higher proportion of limited term appointments, and interchange of staff between universities and other agencies. Implications for recruitment and promotion are discussed. (LBH)

Describes a career incentive program for teachers, designed to improve their performance and develop their leadership, curriculum development, and research talents. The program offers extended contracts for participating in curriculum development in addition to a four-level career ladder "Teacher Academy" designed to upgrade the status…

Describes a four-stage model for teacher career advancement in the institution whose present structure does not provide promotion for classroom excellence. (KS)

Shows how faculty can survive by going along with the university's bureaucratic structure. (EL)

Operative criteria used by administrators when recommending teachers for promotion were identified. From the criteria elicited in testing, similar categories emerged with shifts in the priority of decision power. The study extended personal construct theory into administrative practice to demonstrate the effect of personal realization of operative…

Proposals for merit pay and for master-teacher and career-ladder systems abound, but none will work without effective means of teacher evaluation. Evaluation methods used to back up merit pay programs in Ladue, Missouri, and in a suburb of Seattle, Washington, and being planned for Charlotte, North Carolina, are briefly described. (PP)

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has been using the Sander's value-added model to determine if they have had gains in student achievement in language arts, mathematics and reading. The article summarizes the method to make this determination and the results from three years of testing using the CTB McGraw-Hill Terre Nova test. The archdiocese has…

A revamping of the operation of the current academic labor market by drawing upon the system found in professional sports is suggested. To stimulate thought, it is proposed that rules governing free agency, professor reservation, first refusal, trading, and salary arbitration be applied to higher education to replace current, outdated procedures.…

Discusses the history and status of black women faculty, describing strategies for overcoming internal and external challenges. Addresses such issues as managing career and family, establishing support systems, and negotiating tenure and promotion. Offers suggestions for restructuring career development to help women faculty develop strategic…

Analyzes the question of whether mentor teaching, career ladder, and teacher empowerment programs expand teacher opportunities. Describes several such programs now in place in American school systems. Concludes that teachers, teachers' organizations, administrators, and policymakers need to consider the long-range implications of teacher…

Examines the role of women in Mexican public education leadership. Teaching is a desirable career for Mexican women, but gender differentiated education, training, cultural expectations, family responsibilities, and lack of affirmative government policy inhibit women's professional advancement in the centralized federal bureaucracy that manages…

Introduction of the advanced skills teacher (AST) classification into Australian schools is a poignant example of how discursive practices shape the lives of teachers through patterns of reward, processes, and criteria. In recognizing certain skills as advanced (and devaluing others), the AST process has encouraged, even mandated, their…

Challenges the common assumption that the rise of an instructorate unsupported to do traditional forms of research will necessarily result in an exploited academic labor force and inferior teaching. Explores the ways in which the "teaching substructure" existing now in composition and rhetoric has already begun to contribute substantially to the…

Explanations for poor educational experiences and results for Australian Indigenous school students have, to a great extent, focused on intended or conscious acts or omissions. This paper adopts an analysis based on the legislation prohibiting indirect racial discrimination. Using the elements of the legislation and case law it argues that…