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Anicca Cox; Timothy R. Dougherty; Seth Kahn; Michelle LaFrance; Amy Lynch-Biniek – College Composition and Communication, 2016
Since the adoption and subsequent fade of the Wyoming Resolution, we have seen the political economy of writing instruction change remarkably. Certainly, composition studies' disciplinary viability seems more solid, but the proportion of contingent writing teachers has increased to almost 70 percent. The authors of this article attribute these…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Teachers, Educational Trends
David, Solomon Arulraj – Online Submission, 2022
This paper explores the top ten issues and ideas for the future of teaching and learning in the post-pandemic world. The study uses the researcher's informed reflection as a method. The informed reflector role allows the researcher to explore realities from multiple dimensions by scanning existing teaching and learning scholarship. The subjective…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Futures (of Society), Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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Lama, Tek; Joullié, Jean-Etienne – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2015
This article explores the issues casual academics face in Australia and whether these pose risks to teaching quality. The logic of the rampant casualisation in Australian universities is exposed first (i.e., mainly flexibility and cost saving to offset drops in government funding), followed by a discussion on the theoretical risks casualisation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, Cost Effectiveness
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Finkelstein, Martin J.; Conley, Valerie Martin; Schuster, Jack H. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2017
In the past few decades, especially since the 2008-09 economic downturn, the faculty of American colleges and universities has undergone a far-reaching transformation. Multiple factors, mainly extraneous to the campus itself, are reshaping higher education, and as a result a reprioritizing of the internal allocation of resources is occurring. The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Change, Teacher Role, Socialization
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Burgan, Mary – Academe, 2008
The author begins by asserting that tenure does have a future, even though cultural and economic trends in American higher education have brought it to near annihilation in the past decade. She is sorry to say that it has survived these trends for one troubling reason--tenure is the ultimate employment perk for very successful members of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Role, Tenure, Academic Freedom
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Arnoux, Pierre; Duverney, Daniel; Holton, Derek – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2009
In this article, we start by considering the relevant parts of the French educational system and the data relating to science at the end of secondary school and the early years of university. We show an increase, till 1995, and then a decline in the study of mathematics at baccalaureate and university level. However, our main conclusions relate to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Enrollment Trends