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.

The author is an outgoing faculty chair of the college assessment committee (CAC) at Moravian College. In this article, he shares the learned principles and constructive practices that guided his ten years of successful progress in fostering assessment: (1) Assessment must be part of the strategic plan; (2) Assessment language must be consistently…

Participation by Wilkes College in the Pennsylvania Regional Instructional System for Education (PRISE) Regional Cooperative Computing Activities program for the period July 1971 through June 1974 is summarized, and problems and successes identified. Loss of faculty members trained in the program and loss of interest of some of the others because…

The strategic deployment of state funds is suggested to support changes in higher education to increase faculty productivity and to promote such changes as the adoption of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education suggestions for less time for degrees (e.g., the three-year bachelor's degree). The use of contracts for services from private higher…

This study was conducted to test the following hypotheses: (1) that student-centered teachers are perceived by their students to be more effective than subject-centered teachers, and (2) that the first hypothesis will hold true regardless of certain characteristics of students and faculty. Questionnaires designed to ascertain role-orientation were…

In the 1984-85 school year, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) began to actively encourage Pennsylvania school districts to reform their teacher supervision/evaluation (TS/E) procedures. To obtain data necessary for developing TS/E models, the PDE commissioned Research for Better Schools (RBS) to conduct a study of five school…

This guide was designed to help elementary school faculties begin a cycle of evaluation, revision, implementation, and change which can coincide with other evaluation cycles, such as Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) testing or longrange planning, if desired. The processes described in the general procedures section are suggestions; situation.…

Faculty debate preceding the introduction of a visitation program designed to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the instructors and professors of the Carnegie-Mellon University English department examines the advisability of initiating such a program and the machinery used to assure its introduction. Comprising the major portion of the…

The collective bargaining agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF; 4,200 members) covering the period July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1984 is presented. Also included for this American Association of University Professors affiliated union is the reopener and…