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Thriving in Academia: Building a Career at a Teaching-Focused Institution
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Ansburg, Pamela I.; Basham, Mark E.; Gurung, Regan Areesesh Raj – APA Books, 2021
Veteran professors synthesize their combined 60+ years of expertise at primarily undergraduate, teaching-focused universities into easy-to-follow advice for graduate students and current faculty seeking to build thriving careers at similar institutions. Writing in a friendly tone that includes their personal reflections, the authors guide readers…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Instruction, College Faculty, Job Application
Institutional Research and Human Resources: Partnering to Advance Decision Support for Our Greatest Investment
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Bramblett, Sandra – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2020
Human resources (HR) represent the most significant investment on most of our college campuses in terms of time and financial resources. The importance of good data about the workforce begins with establishing a need for a new position. That need for data continues with recruiting, hiring, training, promoting, retaining (or not), and retiring…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Human Resources, Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making
Navigating a Career in Academia: Insights from Emeriti Engineering Faculty
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Sylvia L. Mendez; Jennifer A. Tygret; Katie Johanson; Valerie Martin Conley; Comas Haynes; Rosario Gerhardt; Kinnis Gosha – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2020
This holistic single-case study design grounded by Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Intelligence explores the perspectives of renowned emeriti engineering faculty on the future of the engineering professoriate and the factors that can lead to a successful professional trajectory for early-career, tenure-track engineering faculty. The emeriti…
Descriptors: Retirement, Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Engineering Education
Learning While Climbing the Academic Administrative Ladder from Faculty to Chair to Dean to VP
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Ayers, Michael V. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Community colleges are experiencing a retirement crisis. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and the Association of Community College Trustees (2018) reported that as many as half of community college presidents presiding in 2016 were likely to retire by 2021. Many current community college vice presidents are not interested in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Career Development, Faculty Promotion, College Faculty
Academics 'Staying On' Post Retirement Age in English University Departments of Education: Opportunities, Threats and Employment Policies
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George, Rosalyn; Maguire, Meg – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
In the UK, a default retirement age no longer exists and more people choose to 'stay on' in their academic posts. 'Staying on' poses opportunities and threats in the academic labour market. Older academics can make a positive contribution to their institution through their expertise and experience. By continuing to work, paying tax and keeping…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Retirement, Decision Making
The Challenges of an Aging Higher Ed Workforce
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Pritchard, Adam; Li, Jingyun; McChesney, Jasper; Bichsel, Jacqueline – College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, 2019
The population of the United States is getting older. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), older workers -- which the BLS defines as those who are 55 and older -- made up 22% of the U.S. workforce in 2016, nearly double the 12% recorded in 1995. This increase is largely "fueled by the aging baby-boom generation, a large…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Higher Education, College Faculty, Labor Force