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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"tenured faculty"”.
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Pre-tenured Faculty Job Satisfaction: An Examination of Personal Fit, Institutional Fit and Faculty Work-life
… study 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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"We Don't Work For Free": Tenured Faculty Engagement In Assessment Initiatives On A Unionized Community College Campus
<p>This case study, which included faculty and administrator interviews as well as an exploration of institutional documents and faculty meeting spaces, examined what influences a tenured faculty member’s decision to engage with assessment initiatives at Midwest Community College and what senior …
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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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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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The Relationship Between Stress Levels and Job Satisfaction among Community College Faculty in East Tennessee.
… pertaining to stress and job satisfaction of faculty at five Tennessee Board of Regents community colleges in east Tennessee were collected and analyzed in this study. Questionnaires were distributed to all full-time faculty at the colleges, with 51.3% returned. Questionnaires consisted of a …
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The Effect of Higher Education on Attitudes and Values: Gender and the Academic Environment
… doctoral level graduate students, 96 were non-tenured faculty and 91 were tenured faculty. It was hypothesized that students and entry level faculty would undergo a socialization processes which would include changes in attitudes and values consistent with established tenured faculty. Oneway …
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A study on the choice to accept a faculty position at a four-year, non-tenure granting university
… is a prestigious, professional achievement for faculty in higher education. The number of tenured faculty, open tenure positions, and newly created tenure positions within higher-education has declined since the 1970’s. A reduction in governmental funding to higher education since the Great …
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University Faculty Members’ Understanding of Their Role: Identity, Power, and Silence
This qualitative study was conducted to explore tenured faculty members’ understandings of their roles as professors. Tenure is an institutional means to enact academic freedom, which allows tenured faculty members to investigate topics of their choosing free from external influence. Academic …
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Post-Tenure Review: Policy Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign
Findings also indicated that faculty perception of post-tenure review was consistent across respondents. None of the respondents were opposed to the evaluation of faculty productivity after receiving tenure. However, perceptions of the creation of an actual post-tenure review policy were mixed. …
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Experiences of Tenured Hispanic Faculty in Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions
<p>Over the past 20 years, student and faculty diversity in higher education has increased, but not at similar rates. Student diversity in higher education has surpassed faculty diversity and leaves a situation in which predominantly White faculty instruct a largely non-White student population. …
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Interdisciplinary Research Connections and Attitudes in Research Universities
… research university. Graduate students and faculty from 15 departments (n = 227) responded to an online survey focusing on an individual's openness toward interdisciplinary research, applied epistemological orientation, and potential interdisciplinary collaborations. The findings suggest …
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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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A study of faculty, administrative, and staff perceptions of the climate for shared governance at appalachian college association member institutions
The purpose of this study was to investigate how faculty, administrators, and staff perceived the climate for shared governance at 36 member institutions of the Appalachian College Association (ACA), based on standards for sound shared governance in higher education as outlined by the American …
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Gender Inequities in Academe and Faculty Perceptions of Family-Friendly Policies
This study explored faculty members' perceived importance of family-friendly policies in academia, the extent to which faculty perceive academic institutions as having a social responsibility to make the academy more family-friendly, participants' endorsement of gender-biased norms, and whether the …
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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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Factors influencing faculty participation in internationalization at the University of Minnesota's schools of nursing and public health: a case study
… their teaching, research and service functions. Faculty play an important role in advancing strategic international agendas, yet little work has been published around their involvement, benefits and rationales to support the internationalization of higher education. The purpose of this study is …
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Conceptualizing a vision of the good life among mid-career faculty.
This qualitative study examined how mid-career faculty defined and pursued the good life and what they perceived as helping or hindering that quest. Using Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory within a critical realist ontology, the research sought to uncover the conceptual structures and …
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Conceptualizing a vision of the good life among mid-career faculty.
This qualitative study examined how mid-career faculty defined and pursued the good life and what they perceived as helping or hindering that quest. Using Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory within a critical realist ontology, the research sought to uncover the conceptual structures and …
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In The Same Room--The Lived Experience of College Faculty with their Administrators in a Shared Governance Environment
The tensions existing between faculty and administrators at colleges and universities have come to be an accepted part of postsecondary education. Calls from lawmakers for increasing federal and state oversight, decreasing enrollments, and diminishing resources are among the many issues facing …
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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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