Between 2000 and 2003, the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project identified and implemented a diverse set of innovative models designed to promote employment stability and wage or earnings progression among low-income individuals, mostly current or former welfare recipients. The project's goal was to determine which strategies could…

Professors can improve their chances of earning tenure by paying attention to organizing certain areas of their professional lives. Evidence of teaching effectiveness, professional and community service, research and other creative activities needs to be gathered and presented in a clear manner at faculty review proceedings. Good organizational…

Designed to help women and minority college faculty navigate a path to tenure, this book looks at the political, scholarly, personal, and interpersonal issues. The chapters of part 1, Surveying the Landscape of the Sacred Grove, are: (1) The Journey toward Tenure (Joanne E. Cooper and Dannelle D. Stevens); (2) Case Studies: Learning from Others…

A survey of 314 male and female faculty in criminology and sociology found that faculty women are more likely than men to leave academic positions, and women who interrupt careers commonly do so for a job-seeking spouse. Women experience significant losses in tenure and earnings as a result of career disruptions. (MSE)

This guide enumerates important questions to ask and issues to consider in approaching promotion and/or tenure review, whether at large universities or small colleges, public or private institutions, or unionized campuses. Suggestions are offered concerning the materials submitted, how to document the impact of one's professional work, and data…

The paper considers new career patterns that may be developing for individuals in the academic profession. Data were collected from 293 men and women doctoral recipients in the years 1963-65 and 1970-72 in nine fields from three prestigious universities. The relationship between academic careers and family responsibilities from the time…

The successful Career Redirection Program of Regis College is described and placed in the context of a multiple-option faculty development program, with its accompanying theoretical rationale. (Author/MLW)

Profiles two types of schoolmasters in Durham County, England, and developments in the incipient teaching profession from 1400 to 1550. Discusses schoolmasters' qualifications, tenure, remuneration, and origins. Shows a few career-minded men enjoyed long tenures whereas the majority taught for a short time, hoping their teaching experience would…

A new, validated survey instrument, SPEAR (Superintendents' Professional Expectations and Advancement Review), asked top executives about their opinions, skills, perceptions on a range of career concerns, and future interests. Of the nation's 13,500 school superintendents, a random sample of 2,979 was selected, segmented by district size. The…

This book focuses on guiding librarians at institutions of higher education on being proactive in securing tenure and promotion in their professional employment. The book has nine chapters. Chapter 1 gives advice on what to include in an application for a tenure-track position and what activities representing individual growth and development…

Two Oakland University (Michigan) peer support programs have helped improve faculty performance in scholarship, teaching, and service by helping faculty cope with professional demands. One group orients the faculty member to the campus community and department and aids him/her in progress toward tenure and promotion. The second promotes…

This book provides high school teachers and counselors with activities to promote better work habits and attitudes with their students. The 12 chapters are based on the Employability Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP). The activities can be used to supplement the teaching of the Employability OCAP. They are not designed to be a…

This book presents 52 essays by individuals in higher education on their own personal career paths and experiences. Part 1 contains essays focusing on suggestions for optimizing career success including one woman's journey to becoming a scholar, personal and cultural factors and cross-cultural influences, the transition to academic life from…

This book, intended for those in the early years of an academic career, presents papers on academic career development organized into two parts: Part 1 is on role expectations for beginning professors at eight institutions of higher education and part 2 describes career patterns by faculty members. Each of the two Parts begins with an editorial…