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Direct linkTuchman, Gaye – Academe, 2011
An academic plan is a business plan disguised in the regalia donned for significant public ceremonies--black cap and gown, colorful hood, and, of course, gold tassel. Several years ago, the University of Connecticut started to plan for the economic disaster that was at the time so obviously in the future of higher education institutions. A formal…
Descriptors: Governance, Governing Boards, Accountability, College Faculty
Mason, Mary Ann; Goulden, Marc; Frasch, Karie – Academe, 2009
The authors recently completed an unparalleled survey, with more than eight thousand doctoral student respondents across the University of California system, and what they heard is worrisome: major research universities may be losing some of the most talented tenure-track academics before they even arrive. In the eyes of many doctoral students,…
Descriptors: Careers, Graduate Students, Research Universities, Family Life
Murphy, Carole H. – Academe, 2009
About 25 percent of faculty working in the United States will reportedly consider retiring in the next five to seven years. As one of this 25 percent, the author has been researching what she needs to know to retire. What she found initially was a lot of misinformation. To complicate matters, the world has changed over the past year, causing those…
Descriptors: Financial Services, Retirement, Economic Climate, Human Resources
Berman, Russell A. – Academe, 2011
Those in America are confronting a stark alternative: either open themselves to an appreciation of human plurality and the diversity of cultures around the globe or limit themselves to a narrowly normative culture. Will American schools and colleges provide students with opportunities to learn to understand other voices, or will the educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Second Language Instruction, College Faculty
Yakoboski, Paul – Academe, 2007
In 2005, TIAA-CREF sponsored its first-ever "Retirement Confidence Survey of College and University Faculty" to discover the answer to this question: How well are faculty members taking advantage of employer-sponsored pension plans and saving for retirement? An additional objective of the project was to compare the survey's findings for higher…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Retirement, Teacher Surveys, Planning
Earl, James W. – Academe, 2004
Last fall, the author addressed the AAUP's 2003 governance conference about a faculty-led initiative to reform college sports. The Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (COIA) grew out of a meeting one afternoon in the student union at the University of Oregon among a few senior professors who had recently been appointed to the faculty senate.…
Descriptors: Governance, College Athletics, College Faculty, Teacher Role
