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Peer reviewedCole, Bryan R. – Higher Education, 1995
This paper examines the use of total quality management (TQM) principles in the selection of college faculty, presenting a TQM model for the recruitment, identification, and selection of faculty. This model relates the role of vision, mission, planning, and organization design with quality concepts, such as leadership, empowerment, client…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Faculty Recruitment, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPelczar, Richard – Higher Education, 1977
The traditional image of the Latin American university professor is described with focus on the effects of the movement toward a full-time professoriate and other changes on the recruitment patterns, morale, and scholarly productivity of contemporary academics in Colombia and Argentina. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Recruitment, Foreign Countries, Growth Patterns
Peer reviewedYoun, Ted I. K.; Gamson, Zelda F. – Higher Education, 1994
A study of 20 faculty searches in 4 comprehensive universities during a period of substantial academic labor market change identified 6 patterns of recruitment strategies, with less prestigious institutions adopting recruitment norms of more prestigious institutions. In response to labor market forces, institutions emphasized credential…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Competition, Faculty Recruitment, Higher Education
Peer reviewedNewman, W. – Higher Education, 1986
The foreign composition of faculties in schools and departments of education in 10 Australian colleges and universities is examined in terms of the proportions, qualifications, nationalities, and influences of these faculty members on the institutions. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Colleges, Departments, Faculty Recruitment
Peer reviewedOver, Ray; Sherwood, Cathie – Higher Education, 1994
A survey of 230 men and women full-time lecturers in an Australian university investigated academic recruitment practices and sources of information about academic job openings. Results, which suggest similar recruitment bases, are discussed with reference to why men have traditionally outnumbered, and continue to outnumber, women in academic…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Faculty Recruitment, Females
Peer reviewedAl-Ebraheem, Hassan Ali; Stevens, Richard P. – Higher Education, 1980
The modern university is seen as an alien phenomenon in the Arab world, where it lacks societal support. Kuwait University is a microcosm of the Arab university with peculiar problems arising from unequal admissions standards, traditional societal values, paucity of indigenous staff, inexperienced administrators, etc. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Admission (School), Career Choice, College Administration
Peer reviewedAllen, Nessy – Higher Education, 1988
Formal faculty promotion procedures are examined in the context of costs, declining recruitment, declining staff mobility, federal restrictions and legislation, increasingly uneven distribution of faculty rank and age, and the tenure system. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Costs, Economic Change
