The number and variety of cases involving teachers' extra-duty assignments are increasing. This article finds that supplemental contracts are becoming common, extra duties should be assigned equitably, tenure does not accrue to extra-duty positions, teachers' associations are becoming involved in making extra-duty assignments, and school boards…

A Vermont elementary school principal offers advice to other schools attempting to revise their assessment approaches and stack their bulky armfuls (student portfolios) in a better load. Educators are advised to integrate portfolios into current classroom practices, share both the burden and the benefits, adapt portfolios to their own needs and…

Arguments are presented which suggest that, although higher education cannot be offered entirely separately from research, institutions of higher education do not need to conduct research to justify their title. However, faculty need time and resources to keep up with their fields. If higher education is serious about promoting quality, it must…

Persistent state legislative interest in public college faculty workload is causing higher education advocates to redirect the debate to consistent measurement of faculty effort, relationship of cost and quality, and intrusion of management on faculty's professional autonomy. Faculty are participating more in the debate. (MSE)

Discusses the conflicting tensions experienced by minority faculty who bear the brunt of facilitating diversity. Describes difficulties and costs of dealing with both the allies and opponents of multiculturalism. (SR)

Faculty workload is discussed in terms of teaching, research, and service and then considered in the context of institutional mission and workload standards. A model for defining a faculty workload policy is presented. (Contains seven references.) (LB)

Four challenges facing continuing education are (1) changing financing of higher education; (2) communications technologies; (3) sensitivity to traditional faculty rewards; and (4) recognition of the implications of value-added assessment. (SK)

Investigates the attitudes of secondary English student teachers regarding literature and reading, language, listening and speaking, task analysis, and composition. Finds that interns often teach according to educationally unsound practices because they feel they should follow the practices of cooperating teachers and they are overwhelmed by the…

Guidelines for agricultural education faculty promotion/tenure include (1) assessment of institutional expectations (categorized by teaching or research institution); (2) documentation of teaching, personal attributes, advising, research, publications, committee and association work, time in rank, public service, and graduate student supervision;…

A study examined work and family variables that differentiate college faculty (n=97) in English and engineering who are more and less current with regard to their discipline's knowledge base. Factors examined include amount and flexibility of work- and family-related responsibilities, work standards, and time spent on research and professional…

A study investigated the test-retest reliability of critical faculty productivity measures used in a 1988 major national survey, "Faculty at Work." It further sought to explain reliability differences among items and item types, identify variables and constructs wrongly assumed to be stable over time, and examine implications for other…

Focusing on research universities, this study examines historical patterns in faculty salaries, recent evidence on salaries, the tenuous connection between salaries and performance, and the role of salaries in effective academic-reward systems. Administrative implications for salary policies that improve productivity are also examined. (Author/MSE)

Provides an overview of the process utilized by the University of Kentucky Community College System to report faculty workload and contact hour data from fall 1993 to fall 1995. Indicates that faculty work about 48 hours a week and spend 75% of their time teaching and advising students, which is consistent with national trends. (JDI)

Knowledge work today is entirely different, and knowledge professionals such as faculty must be allowed to engage in scholarship, teaching, and service cyclically, not simultaneously. Institutional mechanisms must support social integration of knowledge as they now support research and teaching. (SK)

Sketches an abstracted and idealized profession of English--a profession that fosters no politics and entails no internal conflicts, and whose members care about language and its uses, about the transmission of knowledge and skills, and a capacity for pleasure in the text. (RS)