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Direct linkCaroline Strevens Ed.; Emma Jones Ed. – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2023
This book provides a novel contribution to the wider bodies of literature on student and academic wellbeing by including a series of rich and nuanced discussions of specific aspects of the wellbeing of legal academics. It contains original research contributions on this topic drawing on insights from law, education and psychology and throws a…
Descriptors: Legal Education (Professions), Well Being, College Faculty, Work Environment
Pope-Ruark, Rebecca – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022
Faculty often talk about how busy, overwhelmed, and stressed they are. These qualities are seen as badges of honor in a capitalist culture that values productivity above all else. But for many women in higher education, exhaustion and stress go far deeper than end-of-the-semester malaise. Burnout, a mental health syndrome caused by chronic…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Resilience (Psychology), Women Faculty, College Faculty
Col, Lee Del; Stahl, Garth – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2023
"Working in a Survival School" documents how global educational policies trickle down and influence school cultures and the lives of educators and educational leaders. The research traces the everyday work and experience of educators within an all-boys Catholic college suffering an unprecedented decline in enrolment numbers. In short, it…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Single Sex Schools, Males, Catholic Schools
Mitra, Dana – Teachers College Press, 2021
How can new faculty find success in academia and what can universities do to support them? In this book, the author demonstrates how a coaching-focused stance toward faculty development can improve equitable conditions within the university and contribute to faculty retention and well-being. For faculty and graduate students, this book emphasizes…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Teaching Conditions
Henry, Frances; Dua, Enakshi; James, Carl E.; Kobayashi, Audrey; Li, Peter; Ramos, Howard; Smith, Malinda S. – University of British Columbia Press, 2017
The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are promoted and racism does not exist. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. While some studies do point to the persistence of systemic barriers to equity and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Colleges, Surveys
Cross, John G.; Goldenberg, Edie N. – MIT Press (BK), 2011
Much attention has been paid to the increasing proportion of non-tenure-track faculty--adjuncts, lecturers, and others--in American higher education. Critics charge that universities exploit "contingent faculty" and graduate students, engaging in a type of bait and switch to attract applicants (advertising institutional standing based on…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Research Universities, Teacher Selection, Teaching Conditions
Altbach, Philip, Ed.; Reisberg, Liz, Ed.; Yudkevich, Maria, Ed.; Androushchak, Gregory, Ed.; Pacheco, Ivan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? "Paying the Professoriate" examines these questions and provides key insights and recommendations into the current state of…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Compensation (Remuneration), Higher Education, Research Universities
Wright, Mary C. – SUNY Press, 2008
In surveys, research university faculty often report that they value teaching more than their departments do. This incongruence holds implications for job satisfaction, stress, time spent on teaching, organizational continuity, and even student evaluations. Using an interactionist view of organizations, Mary C. Wright examines the reasons for this…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Faculty, College Instruction, Value Judgment
Brown, William R. – 1982
The internal politics of colleges and the influence of a current emphasis on efficiency on the traditional independence of the academician are analyzed. It is suggested that the academician does not work in the same differentiated, and therefore interdependent, way as someone in industry or a bureaucracy. Academic activity is segmented, which…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, College Administration, College Faculty
Freedman, Mervin; And Others – 1979
The importance of considering institutional educational goals, organizational functioning, and adult personality development in designing faculty development programs is addressed. After a brief historical sketch of faculty development and the situation of the faculty member today. ethnographic descriptions of two universities and a liberal arts…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Case Studies, College Environment, College Faculty
Clark, Shirley M., Ed.; Lewis, Darrell R., Ed. – 1985
Issues concerning faculty career vitality, including institutional policy options and demographic and external pressures, are addressed in 12 chapters. In the first chapter, Shirley M. Clark, Carol M. Boyer, and Mary Corcoran review theoretical and conceptual issues concerning institutional and faculty vitality. The following chapters and authors…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Career Change, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Thoreson, Richard W., Ed.; Hosokawa, Elizabeth P., Ed. – 1984
The promotion of employee assistance programs (EAP) in higher education is considered in 24 chapters, with an emphasis on enhancing resources and the academic environment for faculty and staff. Seven topical areas are addressed: history of EAP; characteristics of higher education; alcoholism and other risks in the academic life-style; EAP models…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Clinical Diagnosis, College Faculty, Emotional Problems
Morrill, Paul H.; Spees, Emil R. – 1982
Teaching in higher education is examined in terms of the normal duties and responsibilities of the college instructor, some of the newer instructional patterns and innovations, educational technology, and skills needed to guide the learning process. Chapters include: the context of higher education; roles in the academic profession; basic…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, College Instruction
Bowen, Howard R.; Schuster, Jack H. – 1986
The impact of upheavals in U.S. higher education on the professoriate was examined, focusing on such factors as declines in enrollment and governmental support, and shifts in enrollment among fields of study. Characteristics of faculty were identified, including their tasks and capabilities, personal background, attitudes and values, emergent…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Contracts, Doctoral Degrees, Economic Climate
