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Denaro, Kameryn; Kranzfelder, Petra; Owens, Melinda T.; Sato, Brian; Zuckerman, Austin L.; Hardesty, Rebecca A.; Signorini, Adriana; Aebersold, Andrea; Verma, Mayank; Lo, Stanley M. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: The University of California system has a novel tenure-track education-focused faculty position called Lecturer with Security of Employment (working titles: Teaching Professor or Professor of Teaching). We focus on the potential difference in implementation of active-learning strategies by faculty type, including tenure-track…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Faculty, Tenure, Teacher Characteristics
Robinson, Janet L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The increased diversity of students at community colleges makes support and retention of Black women instructional faculty critical. Black women instructional faculty may feel like imposters, receiving messages of inadequacy, despite their achievements. If so, such feelings may impede their ability to serve students and to thrive more generally in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Women Faculty, College Faculty, African American Teachers
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Xu, Di; Solanki, Sabrina – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2020
This article presents new quasi-experimental evidence regarding the effectiveness of teaching-oriented faculty with tenure-track appointment, a model pioneered at the University of California (UC) system. Using data from six cohorts of students at a UC campus, we examine the impact of initial course-taking with three distinct types of…
Descriptors: Tenure, Teaching (Occupation), College Faculty, Outcomes of Education
Kezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2012
The nature of the American academic workforce has fundamentally shifted over the past several decades. Whereas full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty were once the norm, more than two-thirds of the professoriate in non-profit postsecondary education is now comprised of non-tenure-track faculty. New hires across all institutional types are now…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Community Colleges, Higher Education
Hubbard, Bette Ann; Smith, Craig – American Federation of Teachers, 2003
One of the highest priorities of American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Higher Education over the past several years has been the shift away from a corps of full-time, tenure-track faculty to a contingent instructional workforce in American colleges and universities. This document focuses on one aspect of that shift: full-time faculty who are not…
Descriptors: Unions, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty, Job Security
Lopez, Elias S. – California State Library, 2004
The California Community College (CCC) system is the largest two-year higher education system in the United States, providing courses to over 1.7 million students and employing more than 85,000 persons (in 2002). At the request of Senator Alarcon, this report analyzes staffing patterns in California's community colleges. Based on data from 1994 to…
Descriptors: Employment Level, Teacher Salaries, Community Colleges, College Faculty