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Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty
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National Academies Press, 2010
"Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty" presents new and surprising findings about career differences between female and male full-time, tenure-track, and tenured faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics at the nation's top research universities. Much of this…
Descriptors: Productivity, Tenure, Gender Differences, Research Universities
Building a Career in America's Community Colleges: Essays by Rob Jenkins from "The Chronicle of Higher Education"
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D'Errico, Deanna, Ed. – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ3), 2010
This volume collects essays Rob Jenkins originally wrote for "The Two-Year Track" column in "The Chronicle of Higher Education". Drawing on his own experience, Rob has, for many years, been dispensing much-appreciated advice from the frontline--to those considering a community college career as well as those who desire to move up the ranks. This…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Job Application, Employment Interviews
Impostors in the Temple.
Anderson, Martin – 1992
This book offers a critique of intellectuals in U.S. colleges and universities and the consequent decline in the quality of higher education and suggests solutions. Chapter 1, "Two Intellectual Classes," defines the professional intellectuals; writers and editors who work for the mass media, large publishing houses and think tanks; and…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Instruction, Departments, Educational Finance
Deaning: Middle Management in Academe.
Morris, Van Cleve – 1981
The inner structure of campus management is examined to reveal the human side of personnel management, public and student relations, budget planning, affirmative action, faculty politics, salary disputes, and tenure decisions. The analysis depicts the special situation that results from a dean's management of people who not only are the dean's…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Affirmative Action
Reviewing Academic Performance. Approaches to the Evaluation of Departments and Individuals. University of Queensland Press Scholars' Library.
Roe, Ernest; And Others – 1987
Evaluation of both the academic department or unit and the individual academic staff member is addressed. Documents relevant to the reviewing process and a variety of instruments for collecting evaluative information are included, along with 10 case studies and exercises that offer advice on effective procedures. Departmental review is defined as…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Programs, Data Collection, Departments
Gender Roles and Faculty Lives in Rhetoric and Composition.
Enos, Theresa – 1996
This book combines personal stories of rhetoric and composition teachers with statistical data derived from various government and academic research studies to document gender experiences of college writing teachers and administrators. Anecdotal evidence was drawn from a survey questionnaire mailed to 3,000 college writing teachers, follow-up…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Colleges, Educational History, English Departments
The Academic's Handbook. Second Edition.
DeNeef, A. Leigh, Ed.; Goodwin, Craufurd D., Ed. – 1995
This book's 29 chapters by various authors are designed to provide immediately useful advice for college and university teachers concerning current higher education issues, employment, teaching and advising, funding research, publishing research, and academic communities and administrations, The chapters are: "A Taxonomy of Colleges and…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Freedom, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty