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Li, Bingqin; Shen, Yang – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
The 'publish or perish' system has been widespread in the global higher education sector to incentivize academic performance. How the system affects academics in non-western countries has received scant attention. This research studies the relationship between different types of employment contracts, work pressure and the childbearing decisions of…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Faculty Publishing, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
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Lu, Xintong – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
This study draws upon motivation theories and identifies the motivations of Chinese scholars with regard to publishing articles in international journals and how their motivations influence the research output of Chinese universities. Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with academics currently working in two Chinese universities, the findings,…
Descriptors: Asians, Periodicals, Journal Articles, Faculty Publishing
Saenen, Bregt; Hatch, Anna; Curry, Stephen; Proudman, Vanessa; Lakoduk, Ashley – European University Association, 2021
This report and the accompanying online repository (https://sfdora.org/dora-case-studies/) bring together and analyse case studies in responsible academic career assessment. The case studies are intended to serve as inspiration for institutions planning to become or already engaged in a complex review process, and to provide potential pathways of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Case Studies, Organizational Change, Educational Policy
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Li, Hui; Khattak, Shoukat Iqbal; Jiang, Qingquan – SAGE Open, 2021
Faculty is the key agent for internationalization. This interview-based study explored faculty views about the internationalization understanding, rationales, roles, engagement, and motivation in a research-centric, double-first class university in China. Faculty motivation was analyzed using the lens of the motivation systems theory (MST). The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Systems Approach, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation
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Han, Yuzheng; Wang, Boyu – World Journal of Education, 2015
With the deepening of university reform in China, the traditional teaching faculty management mode has been exposed more and more defects. To make innovation of the university teaching faculty management mode becomes the voice of the times. Universities should conduct careful research on this issue in the development. Starting from the…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, College Instruction, College Faculty, Educational Change
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Han, Yuzheng – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The construction of university teaching faculty directly affects and restricts the long-term development of universities. Since the reform and opening up, China's university teaching faculty construction has realized marvelous achievements. However, in comparison with the higher education in developed countries, in China the construction of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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Jingning, Zhang – International Journal of Educational Development, 2013
The purposes of this micro-level, detailed qualitative study of a university faculty in a large city in China are threefold: to identify the sources of institutional promotion criteria, to illustrate the experiences of frontline faculty members with these criteria and their perceptions of them, and to discuss the possible bearings of the findings…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Criteria, Foreign Countries
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Luo, Zhongshu – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
The article analyzes the practice and experience of faculty management at the University of Pennsylvania and its implications for Chinese universities from the perspective of management systems and operation mechanisms. Recent reforms and innovation of faculty management at Sichuan University are described.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Administration, Personnel Management
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Chen, Qianyi; Yeager, John L. – Frontiers of Education in China, 2011
Along with the "massification" of higher education in China since the late 1990s, the issue of quality and excellence appeared at the top of China's higher education agenda. Since faculty evaluation of teaching is one of the major approaches adopted by China's higher education sector to pursue quality and excellence, it is valuable to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Faculty Evaluation, Comparative Analysis
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Zhang, Hongshia; Foskett, Nick; Wang, Dianmin; Qu, Mingfeng – Higher Education Policy, 2011
This paper presents the findings of a national survey of student satisfaction with undergraduate teaching in a sample of universities and colleges in China. The results show that while a high proportion of academic staff participates in undergraduate teaching, levels of student satisfaction are low. The lowest levels of student satisfaction are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, College Faculty, Student Attitudes
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Guang-Wei, Wu – Education for Information, 1989
Briefly reviews the development of Chinese library schools and describes the management and evaluation of library school faculty. The discussion covers problems with the current system and suggestions for improvements. A directory of departments of library and information science in China is included. (21 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Developing Nations, Educational Administration, Evaluation Criteria
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Lin, Wen-Ying; And Others – Higher Education Research and Development, 1995
A study investigated the applicability of 2 American instruments for student evaluation of teaching for university students in China (n=367). Results indicated high internal consistency; items were generally considered to be appropriate and to distinguish clearly between good and poor lecturers. Every item was important to some students. However,…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Faculty Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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Cox, Milton D., Ed.; Richlin, Laurie, Ed. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 1990
This annual journal's premier issue features the work, thoughts, adventures, and musings of distinguished and respected teachers. An introduction reports that the journal was born of the desire by faculty to recognize college teaching as a profession and to bring to it its own language and traditions and to establish an academic culture for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Style, College Faculty, College Instruction
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This November 5, 2004 issue of "Chronicle for Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Measure Professor's Real Service, Not Lip Service" (Furman, Andrew);…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Psychiatry, Television, Innovation