This conceptual paper draws on the understanding and application of institutional performance management system (IPMS) by managers in a higher education institution's department. Managers in HEIs [higher education institutions] are tasked to develop and support staff at all job levels and are accountable for their performance. The implementation…

Over the past thirty years, higher education for adult students has emerged to help prepare the labor force for the 21st century in a world of globalization. At the same time, there have been massive advances in computing and the internet that provide many tools useful in higher education. Most universities now offer some form of electronic…

The main aim of this study is to analyze the perceptions of educators concerning the execution of managerial processes in elementary schools and to study whether there is significant difference about the opinions of educators according to their gender. The study was carried out in elementary schools located around Guzelyurt City in Turkish…

These guidelines provide a basis for the evaluation of faculty scholarly, creative activity and research resulting in publication within the film, radio, television, and other recording media. The following criteria are outlined: (1) significance, (2) authorship, (3) production, (4) distribution, (5) public response and critical reviews, and (6)…

The status of debate coaching as a career is on the decline. Conflicting priorities create tension between the roles of professor and director of forensics (DOF). One major problem is the academic expectation for an active life of scholarship, juxtaposed with the time-consuming demands of intensive work with the undergraduate forensic program in a…

Academic institutions are caught in a position of needing continued commitment to assessment and yet dealing with strong faculty sentiment on the subject. This paper proposes that faculty assessment activity be re-conceptualized according to Ernest Boyer's (1990) "scholarship of teaching"--as a scholarly process whose products make a…

Explores the crucial role that tenure and post-tenure review may play in the future of American higher education, looking at recent debates about tenure and experiences of post-tenure review. Contends that tenure can be preserved, with post-tenure review the means of invigorating and renewing the profession. (EV)

One hundred sixteen students enrolled at two midwestern universities in neighboring states completed a 28-item Student Perceptions of Evaluations Questionnaire to determine students' attitudes towards the evaluation process. Four central questions to be answered were: (1) Do students understand how evaluations are used? (2) What are students'…

Discusses the shortcomings of one college English department and suggests ways the department can be improved. (AEA)

This paper describes the approach taken at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) for the evaluation of its faculty in conjunction with the OIT administrator evaluation methods. A set of Annual Faculty Objectives (AFO) are established by both faculty and department chairmen. They review divisional and departmental goals and agree on specific…

This paper discusses resolution three passed in 1974 by the Conference on College Composition and Communication at Anaheim, which states,"...all retention and tenure decisions...be securely based on a thorough, balanced, and professional evaluation of teaching competence..." A system developed by the author which approaches the spirit of this…

Because the role of university supervisor of student teachers differs from that of the typical on-campus instructor, the evaluation of university supervisors for tenure and promotion is often difficult. One criteria for tenure and promotion universally accepted in academe is that of teaching expertise. The authors designed an evaluation form that…

All institutions of higher learning have slightly different techniques of promoting and tenuring their faculty. The author compiled this document to provide resourceful pointers to future Broadcast Journalism and Mass Communication professors in the writing and organization of their applications. This collection of materials traces one tenured…

Discusses the tenure evaluation guidelines developed by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT). Expresses concern over the widening split between theater technologists and the actors, directors, and designers they support. (MM)

At the University of Nevada, Reno, lectureships developed out of a serious problem of staffing freshman composition. Almost all students take two semesters of freshman English, and in the late l970's, when the ability to staff these courses became severely limited, the new freshman sections were staffed by temporary faculty identified as…