A case study of the implementation of a computerized decision aid in the Graduate School of Management at UCLA is presented. This decision tool helps determine the annual teaching schedule by assigning faculty to courses and other activities on the basis of their responses to course preference questionnaires. It can also help determine recruitment…

Presents a utility model for academic department decision making and describes the structural specifications for analyzing it. The model confirms the class-size utility asymmetry predicted by the authors' academic rachet theory, but shows that marginal utility associated with college teaching loads is always negative. Curricular structure and…

The assumption that the university's dual missions of research and teaching complement and stimulate one another and differentiate the university from other institutions is questioned. It is suggested that only a new way of managing the relationship between the two will enable universities to meet new challenges in growth of service tasks, cost…

Argues that the situation of adjunct instructors, particularly those who piece full-time employment from part-time appointments, is appalling and that there is responsibility to be meted out to all the various interests connected to the academy that benefit from it. Explores how adjunct instructors and graduate student can make decisions about…

The relationship between perceptions of pay level, pay equity, personal input, job demands, other rewards, and pay satisfaction was examined in a sample of 101 university teachers. Results offer partial support for Lawler's (1971) model of pay satisfaction. (Author/TE)

The report of an American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy task force examines the strengths and limitations of two faculty models, one of teaching and practice and the other focusing on teaching and research. Recommendations are made to pharmacy departments about future directions for the role of faculty. (MSE)

A second grade teacher describes how she trained her students as classroom aides to assist her in a variety of clerical and other nonteaching jobs. This system saved time for the teacher and helped students learn to lead and follow one another. (IAH)

Community colleges will achieve their full potential as institutions of higher education only when scholarship occupies a prominent place in the community college philosophy. The president must establish a climate on campus that promotes scholarship as well as teaching, and must himself be a scholar. (MSE)

While reality does not always support the expectation, every college of pharmacy has expectations of scholarship that are, theoretically, understood by the faculty and administration. Scholarly research and discovery is central to pharmacy and deserves increased attention. (MSE)

The balance between college teaching and faculty scholarship is examined in the context of growing economic concern over the education of an internationally competitive workforce. "Aggregative scholarship," the effort to integrate and interpret highly specialized research findings for interconnections and trends, for both specialists and…

An American Association of University Professors report on faculty workload uses federal data to refute perceptions that faculty spend too little of their professional time on teaching. Faculty are faulted for biased public opinion. Recent Ohio legislation mandating larger undergraduate teaching loads is also criticized by professors for its…

A forthcoming report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching outlines four principles for evaluating college faculty work: (1) focus should be on the scholar's professional characteristics; (2) academe must have agreed-upon standards; (3) evidence of research, teaching, and service should be broad, rich, and varied; and (4)…

Summarizes results of a study designed to identify organizational climate factors in Israel's 29 Bedouin Arab elementary schools and to explore their relation to certain teacher and school-level variables, including sex, educational level, tenure, teachers' origin, school type, and school size. The most important organizational climate factor was…

While college faculty are considered professionals because of their disciplinary orientations, their advising roles are not always considered in this regard. A parallel can be drawn between the functions of teaching and advising, with professionalism and appropriate professional recognition as key ingredients in both. (MSE)

Provoked by the tendency of contemporary college faculty to spend substantial time at the computer, the author consults the writings of an eighteenth-century physician, Bernardino Ramazzini, on the illnesses of workers for insights into the physical illnesses of sedentary scholars and for the preventive measures he prescribed. (MSE)