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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"faculty work"”.
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Conceptualization of Faculty Work Motivation: Overcoming the Impasse
<p>The work motivation literature is at an impasse. At the same time, changing economic and social conditions necessitate an ongoing transformation for how organizations motivate their workforce. Although changes in the nature of work have captured the attention of researchers, calls for more …
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Pre-tenured Faculty Job Satisfaction: An Examination of Personal Fit, Institutional Fit and Faculty Work-life
… is to explore job satisfaction among pre-tenured faculty. More specifically I was interested in examining demographic and personal fit factors, fit with the norms and values of the institution among pre-tenured faculty in different institutional types. The sample for the study included all …
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The role of gender and parenthood in shaping faculty work and identity in physical education teacher education
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Teaching and Learning in sustainable agriculture curricula: A case study of faculty work as learning at a land grant university
… colleges of agriculture. In response, innovative faculty at colleges and universities are implementing new frameworks for undergraduate education in the agricultural sciences. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to explore the experience of faculty teaching and learning in sustainable …
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Work and Life Integration: Faculty Balance in the Academy
<p><strong>Faculty work life integration has evolved as an important area of research in the academic workplace. The evolution in thinking about faculty work life integration has progressively shifted focus from the problems of women and parents to research that considers both men and women, …
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Choosing your engagements: tenure and work life at state comprehensive universities
Based on interviews with eighteen tenured faculty members in departments of history at eight non-urban state comprehensive universities in the Midwestern, Northeastern, and Southeastern United States, this qualitative study investigated the perceived effects of tenure on faculty work life. The data …
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From TA to Faculty Member: The Socialization of Doctoral Completers
… school and the perceived preparation of new faculty entering the academy. This study also took into account the types of tasks participants completed while serving as teaching assistants and how those tasks related to preparation for faculty life. Through the participants shared experiences …
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Constructing an Estimate of Academic Capitalism and Explaining Faculty Differences through Multilevel Analysis
… sources of revenue and are best revealed through faculty work. This study was designed to create empirical evidence of academic capitalism through the behaviors of faculty members at research universities. Using a large-scale, national database, the researcher created a new measure—an estimate of …
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Teaching with Technology in an Agriculture Associate's Degree Program
… no one educational system can teach every skill, faculty can help integrate technology and model skills that students will need later in life. Using Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations as a model, the researcher examined technology integration and how it affected engagement, motivation, and learning …
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Faculty Talk: Metaphors and Communication Patterns of Faculty Developing Interdisciplinary General Education Courses
… courses emphasizing interdisciplinary course work. Faculty and administrators participating in this restructuring often find the process long, difficult and disruptive of departmental and campus communication. Protection of departmental and disciplinary turf, disagreement on pedagogical …
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Faculty teaching climate: scale construction and initial validation
… “academic culture” has been used as a framework to understand faculty work in higher education. Academic culture research builds on organizational psychology concepts of culture and climate to better understand employee practices and work phenomenon. Ample research has investigated faculty …
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Junior Faculty Perceptions of their Doctoral Level Teaching Preparation: A Cross Disciplinary Examination
… for teaching in collegiate settings. The seminal work on doctoral student experiences suggests that doctoral programs are adequately preparing doctoral students for their research function, but concerns emerge around teacher preparation. Four bodies of literature inform this study: (a) the …
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An Analysis of Racial Identity Attitudes and the Perception of Racial Climate on Job Satisfaction of African American Faculty at Historically White Institutions
… ability to promote and retain African American faculty. African American faculty at HWIs have reported issues of hyper visibility, lack of diversity, chilly campus climates, and culture, as factors impacting their workplace satisfaction. In an attempt to understand African American faculty work …
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Navigating the Rules of Clinical Practicum Work: An Interpretive Study of the Experiences of Associate Degree Nursing Students
… to help students gain knowledge and skills to work with patients in the clinical setting. The ways in which students use these tools and perceive and manage their clinical work is not understood. The dearth of research related to what students actually do in clinical practicum settings provided …
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Perceived Barriers to the Implementation of Web Enhancement of Courses by Full-Time Tennessee Board of Regents Faculty.
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine faculty reluctance to providing students with access to course resources via the Internet. The study explored known barriers to the use of technology and the Internet within educational settings and provided opportunity for new barriers to be presented. …
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Exploring Engineering Faculty Members' Experiences with University Commercialization Utilizing Systems Thinking
… and entrepreneurship culture. However, although faculty members are a key source of human capital within the university commercialization process, studies of faculty members' experiences with university commercialization are scarce. To better understand these experiences, I conducted a multiple …
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The Intellectual Impact of Interdisciplinarity: A Series of Studies of Graduate Students and Faculty Engaged in Interdisciplinary Scholarship
… interdisciplinary activities changes student and faculty thinking in significant ways. This dissertation proposes to address the gap in the examination of interdisciplinarity regarding interdisciplinary learning outcomes by investigating the intellectual impact of interdisciplinary initiatives on …
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PREPARATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER EDUCATORS: AN INVESTIGATION OF EMERGING SIGNATURE PEDAGOGIES
… orientation. The second theme, scaffolded work of teacher educators, included two subthemes related to opportunities to participate in: (a) ongoing work related to P-12 practices and school structures (e.g., program evaluation and mentoring and induction of novice teachers) and (b) faculty …
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