A proposal to place a limit, or ceiling, on college faculty incomes relies on voluntary participation. The sources of this plan and its limitations are discussed in terms of workload, salaries, and fringe benefits. (MSE)

The activities of faculty and their availability to provide direct contact teaching are key determinants of resource allocation and cost analysis. Problems caused by the diversification of allied health professions education programs are addressed and suggestions for using faculty activity analysis in determining cost per student are offered. (LBH)

This article describes the origins and symptoms of staff burn-out in child care jobs, and offers ten suggestions to help combat such burn-out. (CM)

A cooperative effort between the local school districts, state departments of education, professional organizations, and institutions of higher education on in-service education would result in more efficient use of resources and in more competent teachers. It would also achieve the end result of a better education for the students. (Author)

Analyzes the assistant principalship in terms of socialization, the enculturation process, and the actual work activity of assistant principals. Training and work of assistant principals should be restructured to avoid a trend toward development of a custodial, non-risk taking, noninstructional leader orientation. (PS)

The American Association of University Professors statement concerns policies and practices that open senior academic appointments to persons with reduced workloads and salaries without loss of status. (MSE)

Considers the real problems within the myth of mentoring among higher education foreign language faculty, including conflicts between faculty expectations and responsibilities, faculty workload, and faculty morale. (CB)

A study of the relationship of management behavior of the dean, collegial support, and workload to burnout among faculty in collegiate nursing programs found that collegial support, positive feedback from the dean, and a participatory management style are more important for protecting faculty against burnout than attention to workload. (MSE)

To address staffing problems caused by tougher graduation requirements, Winfield High School (Kansas) recommends a rotating seven-period schedule to complement the normal six-period day. The schedule requires the same teaching load and choice of electives, reduces the pupil-teacher ratio, and increases facilities use and student contact. (MLH)

Tabular results of a survey of 339 colleges and universities are presented regarding faculty working conditions, support services, teaching and noninstructional workload, job concerns, productivity, commitment, teaching performance, training, and full-time percentage, new faculty competence. (MSE)

The experiences of the University of Richmond and others institutions indicate that incentives, direct and tangible or indirect and intangible, reflecting the realities of academic life enhance opportunities for initiative and collegiality. (MSE)

College faculty suffer from loss of esteem and place in the institutional structure, discrepancies between their commitment and that of the institution, and government intrusion into the academy. Burnout is one result of this loss of power and opportunity. Faculty must not become passive or cease caring or creating. (MSE)

The objective of this study was to investigate the concept of stress in the community college faculty governance unit. While research has found that most faculty experience stress as a result of workload, publishing pressures, and insufficient salaries, this study asserts that some faculty experience an additional dimension of stress as a result…

Scholars of higher education have long recognized that existing reward systems and structures in academic communities do not weight faculty professional service as they do teaching and research. This paper examines how four colleges and universities with exemplary programs for assessing service as scholarship implemented these policies within…

The message of new faculty is not new, but their power may be. As the demand for new faculty increases due to retirements and increased enrollments in systems and institutions around the country, large cohorts of tenure-track faculty are being hired. Early-career faculty want what they've wanted for many years now: clarity surrounding the tenure…