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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Tenure-track faculty"”.
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The Socialization of Junior Tenure -Track Faculty Members in Research Universities
The 2001 Faculty Socialization Questionnaire ( FSQ) was used to analyze and compare the perceptions of junior faculty of color and their non-minority colleagues based on select variables. The study also investigated qualitatively the perceptions of their day-to-day experiences with their colleagues …
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A Critical Race Analysis of the Work Experiences of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members of Color
The rapid increase in the number of non-tenure-track faculty members (Curtis, 2014), has prompted research about this group (Allison, Lynn, and Hovermann, 2014; Coalition on the Academic Workforce, 2012; Eagan and Jaeger, 2009; Umbach, 2007). There is also a large body of literature that explores …
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Can We Have It All? Painting a Picture of the Adjunct, Clinical, and Tenured/ Tenure-Track Faculty Mother Experience At a Large Southern Public Research University
Historically, gender norms have allowed faculty who were men to remain an ideal worker by being dedicated to work regardless of family status because they had a wife to keep up the domestic and childcare duties (Tierney & Bensimon, 1996; Wolf-Wendel & Ward, 2006). Although both men and women have …
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Stopping the tenture clock : university support on scorn?
… to describe university Academic Administrators, Tenured Faculty, and Tenure-track Faculty at “RU/VH: Research Universities (very high research activity)” universities as designated by the Carnegie Foundation in the southeastern region of the United States based on demographic characteristics, as …
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Faculty Use of the World Wide Web: Modeling Information Seeking Behavior in a Digital Environment
… of the Internet. This research project studied faculty members' use of and their information seeking behaviors and activities on the Internet at Angelo State University, a Master's I institution. Using both a quantitative and qualitative methodology, differences were found between tenured and …
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Retention of Faculty of Color in Rehabilitation Counselor Education as it Relates to Their Perception of the Academic Climate
… and the employment continuation plans of tenured and tenure-track faculty of color in CORE accredited rehabilitation counselor education (RCE) programs. Furthermore, this study aims to identify which factors best predict the employment continuation plans for this population. Participants …
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White Racial Identity Development and the Tenure Process of African American and Black Community College Faculty
… at predominantly white community colleges. The faculty is not diversifying at the same rate as the student population. The majority of faculty and administrators identify as White. The purpose of this study was to explore how White Racial Identity of White faculty and administrators impacted the …
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Understanding the Professional Life-Cycle of Non-Tenure Track Teaching Faculty
<p>Full time non-tenure track teaching faculty is a vital part of the instructional functioning of many universities. Charged with teaching most of the classes in many departments, full-time NTTT faculty members help lighten the teaching load of tenure-track faculty members so that they, in turn, …
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Faculty lived-experiences in living-learning programs: a phenomenological analysis
… study was to explore the lived-experience of faculty participating in a living-learning program (LLP). This study aimed to examine a sample of eleven tenure and non-tenure-track faculty participants’ experiences regarding involvement, responsibilities, and learning in the LLP. The perspectives …
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A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO CONTINGENT MUSIC FACULTY EXPERIENCES
… increasing reliance on short-term or contingent faculty reflects a shift away from tenure-track positions. Tenure-track faculty reduction is significant in academic disciplines such as music. This qualitative narrative inquiry study explored the professional experiences of contingent music …
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The perceptions of tenure and alternatives to tenure among faculty at a mid-sized regional university in a large northeastern state
… study sought to gauge the perceptions of both tenured faculty and tenure-track faculty regarding academic freedom and tenure. With this information, professors will be able to engage in discussions about tenure and its future. In this study, professors across all colleges and professorial ranks …
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A Phenomenological Examination Of The Experience For Deaf Faculty Members In A Post-Secondary Institution In America
<p>The experience of Deaf tenure track or tenured faculty in post-secondary education is largely unknown. This qualitative phenomenological examination afforded six Deaf tenure track or tenured faculty to share their experiences. The purpose of this study is to share the day-to-day lived experience …
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Kiskinawacihcikana: Aboriginal women faculty experiences in the academy
… of five Aboriginal/Native American women faculty working in universities in Canada and the United States. By using interview, observation and document analysis the author has sought to understand the cultural negotiations of the participants. The hiring of Aboriginal faculty raises new …
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Expansion of Motivation Models of Engineering Doctoral Student Populations
… to train students for academic careers, such as tenure track faculty positions, despite nearly 75% of students being interested in non-academic careers. Through quantitative and qualitative methods, I found that students' development toward future careers is driven by student-specific (e.g., …
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The Triumvirate Woman: Reconceptualizing Academic Career Messages for African American Women in Engineering
… messages for African American women who are tenured and tenure-track in engineering through the lens of Critical Race Theory, Black feminist thought, and intersectionality. This study illuminates within-group differences at the intersection of race, gender, field, and rank, while …
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Mission Adrift: The Impact of Managerialism on Graduate Social Work Education
… is known about the impact of managerialism on faculty in the overall academy, very little is known about its impact in specific disciplines, particularly in the United States. Using semi-structured interviews, this dissertation investigates how social work faculty experience and negotiate …
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Counter-Narratives of La Raza Voices: An Exploration of the Personal and Professional Lived Experiences of Mexican-American/Chicana/O Faculty at California Catholic Institutions of Higher Education
<p>Faculty members of color time and again encounter the greatest number of challenges and barriers (e.g., discrimination, isolation, marginalization, tokenism, inundated with workloads and service commitments, devalued research, and delayed promotion and tenure) in both entering academia and …
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Faculty training and professional development programs designed to impact Web-based instruction in higher education: A faculty perspective.
… interaction between them. This study focused on faculty training and development programs designed to impact Web-based instruction in higher education at the five largest state-funded universities in Texas within a college of education. The instrument used in this study was developed by the …
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Relationship of Self-Efficacy to the Stages of Concern in the Adoption of an Innovation in Higher Education
… collected from a pool of 1,713 instructional faculty between late Fall 2012 and early Spring 2013 semesters. The response group was not representative of the larger population. Forty-six percent represented non-tenure track faculty compared to the expected 19 percent. Analysis using nominal …
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