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People for the American Way, Washington, DC. – 1991
A study of institutional responses to incidents of intolerance on college and university campuses was conducted. A questionnaire was sent to the deans of student affairs and student newspaper editors at 128 four-year colleges and universities; and interviews were conducted with administrators, students, faculty, and staff from 58 institutions, 11…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Discipline Policy, Educational Environment, Ethnic Bias
Schultz-Gerstein, Hans-G. – 1992
This paper describes changes in German higher education as a consequence of the reunification of East and West Germany, focusing particularly on personal evaluation of East German faculty and assessment of their scientific expertise. An introduction reviews the major historical events that have shaped the current situation. The paper states that…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Evaluation Methods, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Evaluation
Schultz-Gerstein, Hans-G. – 1991
This paper recounts the legal, political, and educational changes in former East Germany as the nation has become reunified, and considers the implications of reunification for institutional research at East German universities. After a brief sketch of legal, geographic, and demographic highlights, the decrepit conditions of East German university…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Curriculum Development, Economic Change
Belanger, Charles H., Ed. – 1983
The university as an open system is addressed in 13 papers and 12 abstracts of papers from the 1983 forum of the European Association for Institutional Research. Topics are as follows: program review, analysis of faculty outcomes and characteristics, manpower planning in Dutch universities, adult education in the United Kingdom, outside funding,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College Faculty, Comparative Education
Goldstein, Marc B.; Baranowskyj, Arita – 1983
Based on Barker's Manning Theory, the behavioral and attitudinal consequences of participation in undermanned settings were examined among university faculty. Faculty from the four smallest (undermanned) and four largest liberal arts departments at Central Connecticut State College were surveyed regarding their academic activities and their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Departments, Faculty Workload, Higher Education
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Central Staff Office of Institutional Research. – 1990
The monograph presents, in tabular form, data from a biannual survey on the non-credit instructional activities of the State University of New York (SUNY). The steadily increasing number of non-credit instructional activities offered, especially at the community college level, possibly due to the availability of state funds to help community…
Descriptors: Classification, College Faculty, College Programs, Higher Education
Matier, Michael W. – 1990
The responses from questionnaires (N=182) given to 201 individuals who were provided an opportunity to join the faculty of two research universities (one rural, one urban) were analyzed to determine the factors influencing their decisions to join or not join. Interviews with 60% of the respondents were conducted to gather further information.…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Faculty, Decision Making, Employment Opportunities
Bell, Stephen – 1990
A sample of seven colleges was chosen for a study on the research activities of community college faculties in Ontario. Faculty (N=394 out of a possible 865) were asked to indicate how often they participated in 22 different research activities and how characteristic these activities were of their role as community college faculty. The primary…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty Publishing, Foreign Countries
Cameron, Susan M. – 1978
The possible sponsorship/career success relationship among university male and female faculty is investigated. Focus is on the effects this sponsorship process has in later career success as measured by publication rate, grants received, rate of professional collaboration, and professional network involvement. A sample of 133 faculty members (64…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Career Opportunities, College Faculty, Females
Simpson, William A. – 1981
Conclusions one would make from looking at average faculty salaries in a specific department were compared with those conclusions evolving from a regression analysis of the same salaries. The standard salary study does little more than report the average salary associated with each faculty rank within each department, while a regression study…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Departments
Muffo, John; And Others – 1978
Equal pay for equal work by persons of equal qualifications is the concept behind laws against race and sex discrimination in salaries in the United States. However, determining the existence and extent of discrimination is not a simple matter. A four-step procedure is recommended that attempts to uncover the existence of discrimination and begins…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
State Univ. of New York, Albany. Office of the Regents. – 1979
Guidelines, theory, examples, and references pertaining to self-assessment for colleges and universities are presented in this publication from the University of the State of New York. Guidelines as drafted by the Regents' Project on Self-Assessment for Colleges and Universities include a list of conditions for self-assessment, the procedural…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Case Studies, College Administration, College Faculty
Bornheimer, Deane G.; Lonsdale, Richard C. – 1979
The history and influence of the Faculty Committee for Self-Governance, a group formed to oppose any form of unionization at New York University (NYU), are examined. The group was initially formed to support the "no representative" position in collective bargaining elections held in 1973-1974, and later opposed unionization again in…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Committees, Conference Reports
Marcy, Willard – 1978
Intended as a guide for university administrators, this manual discusses programs to help faculty members in the recognition of inventions and to increase the flow of their disclosure. The benefits of patenting are outlined and it is suggested that these benefits provide justification for initiating a program to increase disclosures. Important…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, College Administration, College Faculty, Copyrights
Oastler, John L.
Using both the interview and questionnaire methods, a survey was made concerning the electronics curriculum at the College of DuPage. In addition to institutional objectives related to the survey, other aims of the study were to develop an instrument to determine the professional's concept of a highly trained graduate, to determine whether there…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Evaluation
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