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Patterson, Janice H. – Focus on Teacher Education, 2001
Few colleges of education include theory and practice about the need to nurture resilient teacher leaders. This issue should be addressed in order to improve the preparation and continued development of the nation's teachers, particularly those in urban schools. This newsletter suggests that as problems confronting schools, particularly urban…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Leadership, Preservice Teacher Education
Carter, Deborah J.; O'Brien, Eileen M. – ACE Research Briefs, 1993
This research brief examines employment and hiring among full-time minority college faculty over the 10-year period (1981-1991) using data from the biannual faculty surveys of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It compares the number of new full-time faculty hires to the actual employment gains in tenure-track and…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, College Faculty, Employment Patterns
Douglas, Joel M., Ed. – Newsletter of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, 1985
The impact of market forces on negotiated salary guides for the hiring and retention of faculty was investigated through a survey of the collective bargaining agreements of four-year institutions. While the vast majority of the 117 contracts surveyed were silent on this issue, 16 agreements contained provisions. Fifteen provided for specific…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Administration, College Faculty, Contracts
Changing Schools, 2001
This newsletter presents articles on: preparing, recruiting, and retaining the best teachers; the RAND project designed to examine the need for high quality programs that impact classroom practice (focusing on mathematics and reading); accountability reform (whether accountability policies improve student achievement); organizational and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change
King, Francis P. – Research Dialogues, 1994
Until the beginning of 1994, federal law permitted mandatory retirement of tenured faculty at age 70. The Committee on Mandatory Retirement in Higher Education, formed by the National Research Council, was charged by Congress to examine potential effects on colleges, universities, and faculty members of ending the exemption for tenured faculty…
Descriptors: Age, Age Discrimination, Aging in Academia, College Faculty
Crutchfield, Margie, Ed. – NCPSE News, 1996
This document consists of the first two issues of a new newsletter of the National Clearinghouse for Profession in Special Education (NCPSE). The following articles are featured: "Diversity in the Special Education Teaching Force" (Judy L. Wald), which discusses reasons for the lack of teachers in special and general education from…
Descriptors: Certification, Databases, Deaf Interpreting, Disabilities