The status of debate coaching as a career is on the decline. Conflicting priorities create tension between the roles of professor and director of forensics (DOF). One major problem is the academic expectation for an active life of scholarship, juxtaposed with the time-consuming demands of intensive work with the undergraduate forensic program in a…

Describes a step-by-step method for analyzing faculty workload which the author notes can determine exactly how a faculty member's time is spent and whether the hours available for teaching equal the hours required for teaching. Suggested uses for the method are noted, e.g., organizing the total work force based on desired curriculum changes. (SH)

The three facets of a faculty member's job in the modern university are teaching, research, and service. There is general agreement on the meanings of teaching and research, but what the service role involves is much less clear. There are internal and external dimensions to service. Internal service is service to the institution as a way to…

The workloads of 1,032 members of the full-time teaching staff at the University of Queensland (Australia) are analyzed and compared by rank and by academic field. The study suggests that the workloads, although different in nature, are comparable in magnitude. (Author/MLF)

The validity of the "publish or perish" dictum in faculty evaluation and promotion is discussed. Professors cannot always be expected to produce written works if adequate attention is to be paid to the duties of teaching. (CJ)

Discusses developing credible and understandable metrics for describing faculty activity and productivity to various higher education audiences. Describes such efforts by the Joint Commission on Accountability Reporting and the National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity, or the Delaware Study. (EV)

If teachers are to reclaim any sort of agenda--let alone a radical one--they need to be taken seriously as professionals. Why aren't they? Derek Gillard surveys the history of teaching in England and argues that teacher professionalism was a short-lived phenomenon which has been in decline for thirty years. Far from rescuing it from the Tories,…

Doctoral students trained today will soon join faculties in the nation's more than three thousand colleges and universities. The preparation these students receive while in their doctoral programs will influence the ways they prioritize research, teaching, and service. In this article, the authors report findings from an evaluation of a…

Procrastination can be a crucial factor inhibiting faculty success. Many important tasks, especially publications for promotion or tenure, are typically associated with deadlines that are far in the future. As a result, time management skills can make or break the success of new faculty. This study examines task characteristics of procrastination…

A key feature of current school-sector reform in England is the restructuring of teachers' work and the increased use of support staff to undertake a range of activities previously undertaken by teachers. Supporters speak of a new teacher professionalism focused on the "core task" of teaching. Critics fear deprofessionalization through a…

The main aim of the study was to evaluate trainee teachers working commitment in their teaching practicum. There were seven component teaching practices and eleven demographic factors. The instrument of the study was extracted from various sources to suit the research design based on Units, Treatments, Observing, and Surveying (UTOS) model…

Commonwealth funding formulae have caused Australian universities to become obsessed with maximising external research funding. Considerable pressure is applied to faculties, departments and scholars to apply for funding, and relative success in attracting it is given excessive weight in evaluating research performance. This may be productive in…

These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conferences on Educational Technologies (ICEduTech 2014), and Sustainability, Technology and Education (STE 2014). The International Conference on Educational Technologies (ICEduTech 2014) is the scientific conference addressing the real topics as seen by teachers, students, parents and…

This study examined faculty workload rules in collective bargaining agreements at the 20 largest unionized colleges and universities (all public institutions or systems) to understand if and how labor and management have negotiated faculty workload provisions. It found that in 12 of the 20 agreements, the parties negotiated specific limits on the…

This study relates information regarding the role part-time faculty members fill in colleges and universities. Data are from the U.S. Department of Education's National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty, 1999. In that year, 2 of every 5 faculty members taught on a part-time basis, and they taught nearly 40% of all classes and students that were…