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Employment of Academic Faculty after Reaching Retirement Age: An Asset or a Burden? -- Ariel University as a Case Study
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Erez Cohen; Nitza Davidovitch – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
This study centers on public policy concerning the retirement age in Israeli academia. The purpose of this study is to analyze the justification for the existing policy on this issue that allows academic institutions to end the employment of faculty when reaching the legal retirement age. The research method is based on analysis of the research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Retirement, Older Workers, Higher Education
Performance Measures of Academic Faculty--A Case Study
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Davidovitch, Nitza; Soen, Dan; Sinuani-Stern, Zila – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2011
This case study is the first to track the method used by an Israeli institution of higher education to assess and reward faculty members using a set of performance measures ("Excellence criteria"). The study profiles faculty members who received financial rewards for excellence during 2005-2007, based on the previous year's activities,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Case Studies, Faculty Evaluation
The Challenge of Improving Teaching in a Globalizing World
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Bokek-Cohen, Ya'arit; Davidovich, Nitza – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2011
The USA has served as a beacon of hope for thousands of foreign students and academics with its diverse and superior opportunities created by a system of meritocracy unparalleled in the world. In keeping with other industries, academia is increasingly becoming a global village and foreign-born professors constitute a large proportion of university…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Public Colleges, Immigrants, Instructional Improvement