Increasingly, many teachers see their roles encompassing not only teaching specific content and mentoring students, but also functioning as front-line social workers. This Digest examines factors that may influence teacher morale and offers suggestions for preserving or restoring morale. Administrative support and leadership, good student…

Degrees of Excellence is a publication that examines the forces behind the rising cost of higher education, and discusses several policy proposals put forward in Minnesota and elsewhere to improve performance and accountability in higher education. Several factors that have converged to strain public higher education budgets in Minnesota include…

A study of the perceptions of Western trained Korean faculty regarding the implications of their cross-cultural training for their careers in academe was done. Personal interviews were conducted with 27 Western-trained faculty members now teaching at 3 private research universities in Seoul, Korea. Principles inherent in the naturalistic inquiry…

A guide for faculty advisers is presented that addresses aspects of the advising process that are often not discussed. Objectives are to accomplish the following: to provide a working definition and theoretical framework for advising, to show with model conversations the theory in practice, to provide procedures for advisor self-evaluation, and to…

Kinds of faculty workload data that can be obtained from college and faculty reports are examined, along with potential problems in workload studies. A main research concern is deciding which faculty activities should be considered as workload. Types of data that are sometimes used in colleges' faculty workload formulas concern student credit…

The incidence and extent of faculty consulting are examined, along with the characteristics of faculty who consult and those who do not, costs and benefits of faculty consulting, the economic status of faculty, and policy considerations. A conceptual framework and historical context are provided that relate consulting and other faculty activities…

The policies of most research-oriented universities with regard to reimbursement for faculty time from grants and contracts can probably be summed up in a single sentence: "Let's get as much as we can." Several areas of concern arise from this situation: (1) the university's ability to plan its future, develop real goals and objectives, govern and…

The increasing number of part-time faculty, especially in university speech communication departments, appears to provide vital continuity in professional development. There are three kinds of part-time faculty: those with new doctoral degrees who want to teach full time but who cannot find appointments, those who are still active or semiactive…

Results of a survey of time spent by full-time science and engineering faculty on professional activity over an entire 52-week year are reported. The nationwide survey sample was designed to be statistically representative of faculty working full-time in 20 fields of science or engineering. Each surveyed person was asked to complete a log-diary…

No-deadline sections of a personalized child development course and sections that had deadlines were compared in regard to proctor workload, proctor grading accuracy, and pressure on proctors. A total of 167 students in four sections of the course, and five proctors and one instructor per section, participated in the study. Students in the…

A questionnaire was sent to the chief academic office of 20 universities to determine a fair and uniform workload for faculty at Central Missouri State University (CMSU). The mean undergraduate teaching load reported by the 18 responding institutions was 11.89 contact hours/week, as compared with 15.6 contact hours/week reported by CMSU faculty.…

A survey of University of California faculty time-use was undertaken as a replacement for less accurate methods of estimating faculty time-use. After sections introducing the study and presenting highlights from the report, focus is on the methodology. Particulars such as the sampling procedures and measures used to evaluate data quality are…

Methods for evaluating the creative endeavors of performing artist-educators in the academic setting are suggested in this paper. The following topics are discussed: the problems involved in evaluating artist-educators with an academic yardstick; factors that cause problems in evaluating performing artist-educators' work; the need to educate…

Faculty members at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), excluding the School of Medicine, reported in a 1976 survey that they spend approximately 60 hours per week in all university responsibilities with nearly 30 hours directly related to instruction at all levels. General scholarship, student related activities, public service, and…

The nature and status of collective bargaining by faculty in colleges and universities in both the United States and Canada are reviewed. The growth patterns for collective negotiation in both countries and the causal factors for faculty unions are contrasted. The use of collective bargaining in higher education raises issues, including the…