Women's experiences in academia are laden with a fundamental set of issues pertaining to gender inequalities. A model reflecting women's career development and experiences around their academic pipeline (or career in academia) is presented. This model further conveys a new perspective on the experiences of women academicians before, during and…

One of the most important aspects of growing and improving business education is replacing departed faculty members. As the baby-boom generation approaches retirement, the supply of available replacement faculty members is diminishing. The result is a competitive market for replacement faculty that features increasing starting salary levels. In…

In this report, the Graduate Management Admission Council[R] (GMAC[R]), in cooperation with MBA Career Services Council and EFMD, presents the results of the 2011 Corporate Recruiters Survey, the tenth annual survey of business graduates' employers. The primary purposes of this study are to examine the job market for graduates from MBA and other…

Current trends and forces that may deter the future of women art faculty in higher education were examined. Women have been acquiring the necessary credentials for employment and promotion in art departments, but they are balanced between a future of full participation in academe and a decline to tokenism. Women constitute over 50 percent of the…

Faculty in some disciplines are hired at and continue to earn larger salaries than those in other fields, with salaries becoming compressed in the junior ranks. The high-earning disciplines vary by institution type. (MSE)

The study deals with two topics: the damand for full-time faculty and their wages. In order to construct an index of demand for full-time faculty, the age distribution had to be estimated. The net mobility by five-year age group for the period 1970 to 1975 was determined, and the net mobility was estimated for the period ending in 1985. Two…

The role of women as higher education faculty and administrators is investigated in this portion of a review of the literature on academic women since 1970. The various types and orientations of the studies reviewed are discussed and analyzed. The topic of sex discrimination was found to dominate a majority of the research on faculty women. Two…

This evaluation briefly considers tha numbers of women faculty at higher educational institutions, their status or rank, their distribution in various academic fields, and their salaries. The availability of women for faculty positions and the process by which they are selected are discussed. Among the processes that can limit the hiring of women…

The current status of women and minority faculty is briefly reviewed, and alternative explanations for patterns of differences that exist are identified. Although female faculty have gained in their proportionate representation during the 1970s, they still lag behind their strength of a half century ago. In addition, female scholars tend to be…

Information is presented on women as students, women graduates in the job market, women as faculty members and administrators, and the status of affirmative action. Women's enrollment in undergraduate education, traditional and nontraditional majors, enrollment in graduate and professional schools, degrees earned, dropout information, and the…

Focusing on education and related occupations, this document is one in a series of forty-one reprints from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The specific occupations covered in this document include kindergarten and elementary school…

The life cycle of a faculty member from pre-employment through retirement is examined in these proceedings. Paper titles and authors are as follows: "The Role of Faculty in Obtaining Quality in Higher Education: Facing the New Realities" (Frank Newman); "The American Professoriate: Rewards and Satisfactions" (Eugene Rice);…

This bulletin provides information on the occupational outlook for education and social service occupations and clergy. For each occupation, these components are described: occupation title(s); Dictionary of Occupational Titles numbers; significant points; nature of the work; working conditions; employment; training, other qualifications, and…