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Learning from Senior Academics' Perspectives of Success and Failure
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Julie A. Timmermans; Vijay Kumar – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
A full academic career encompasses both successes and failures. The purpose of this study was to delve into academic successes and failures, going beyond the conventional focus on objective measures, such as performance, rankings, and funding. Through semi-structured interviews with twelve senior academics from seven countries, we explored…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Success
Continued Use of E-Learning Technology in Higher Education: A Managerial Perspective
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Bøe, Tove; Sandvik, Kåre; Gulbrandsen, Boge – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper develops a managerial-influence perspective in the context of e-learning technology in higher education. Drawing on principal-agent theory and the information systems (IS) continuance model, a new research model is developed and tested. The study finds support for the effects of goal congruence between managers and educators and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, College Faculty, College Administration
Global Connectedness and Global Migration: Insights from the International Changing Academic Profession Survey
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McGinn, Michelle K.; Ratkovic, Snežana; Wolhunter, Charl C. – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2013
The Changing Academic Profession (CAP) international survey was designed in part to consider the effects of globalization on the work context and activities of academics in 19 countries or regions around the world. This paper draws from a subset of these data to explore the extent to which academics are globally connected in their research and…
Descriptors: Surveys, Global Approach, International Programs, College Faculty
American Faculty and Their Institutions: The Global View
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Finkelstein, Martin; Cummings, William – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
This study focuses on aspects of the Changing Academic Profession survey of 2007-08 that describe the place of faculty in their institutions. The authors examine the following aspects of institutional life: (1) the faculty role in institutional governance; (2) who evaluates their teaching and research; (3) the locus of their loyalties as between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Teaching Conditions
Factors Predicting Staff's Intentions to Leave the University.
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Manger, Terje; Eikeland, Ole-Johan – Higher Education, 1990
The survey of University of Bergen (Norway) teaching staff (N=601) found the leading reason for intending to leave the institution was collegial relations. Other reasons predicting intention to leave were in the area of general job satisfaction with staff who found their work less intrinsically satisfying more likely to plan on leaving.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Collegiality, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Are Big University Departments Better Than Small Ones?
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Kyvik, Svein – Higher Education, 1995
A survey of 1,579 faculty members in 201 academic departments at Norway's 4 universities found no significant relationship between department size and research productivity, as measured by scientific publishing. Faculty in smaller departments were more content with their research environment than their colleagues in larger departments. However,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Departments