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Kripa Freitas; Jennifer Murdock – Journal of Economic Education, 2025
Among existing infrastructures to disseminate innovative teaching methods and to build collaborative networks, the authors situate a community of practice (CoP). They explain what a CoP is and compare it with teaching-focused economics journals and conferences, and other infrastructures such as institutional teaching centers. Since 2016, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Economics Education, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration
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John Roth; Rachel Cooke; William W. Reynolds – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
Adjunct faculty at colleges and universities in the U.S. are quickly outnumbering full-time faculty. This new faculty majority often struggles with low pay and sub-par working conditions. Recognizing this issue has a number of negative impacts for higher education, researchers at a comprehensive university in the southeastern United States…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional), Salary Wage Differentials
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Montes, Isabel C.; Garcia-Callejas, Danny; Ocampo-Salazar, Carmen – Higher Education Policy, 2023
Empirical research has explored the relationship between professors and the academic capitalist regime. Nevertheless, this literature has mainly focused on fields heavily engaged with industry at top-ranked research universities in English-speaking countries. In this paper, we analyze the link between faculty promotion policy and professors as…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Promotion (Occupational), Social Systems
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Leslie D. Gonzales; Naseeb K. Bhangal; Chastity Stokes; Jesenia Rosales – Journal of Higher Education, 2025
Faculty members are entrusted with great power to decide who deserves space within the academic profession. Given that the profession's central mission is knowledge production, such decisions inevitably concern epistemic matters, and specifically, what constitutes legitimate knowledge. From this perspective, faculty hiring is not only a matter of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Selection, Decision Making, Epistemology
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Henningsson, Malin; Geschwind, Lars – Higher Education Quarterly, 2022
Recently, a number of inbreeding cases have surfaced that have fuelled public criticism of recruitment practices and the lack of mobility in the Swedish higher education sector. This study focuses on recruitment practices at Swedish universities, particularly the divergence between what seems to be a practice of hiring internal candidates and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, College Faculty, Alumni
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Yui-yip Lau; Lok Ming Eric Cheung – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
Sub-degree education is one of the key higher education sectors in Hong Kong. With the effect of managerialism, tertiary institutions tend to transition from a collegial toward a managerial model, and have shifted from teaching-intensive institutions to research-intensive ones. In this study, two key research questions are addressed: to what…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Barriers, Foreign Countries
Butler, Tiffani Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Department chairs serve a vital function at community colleges. They are middle managers, mid-level leaders, and faculty members. They serve a unique position within the organization because they interact with nearly every unit: academics affairs, student affairs, senior administrators and students. At a time when professional organizations are…
Descriptors: Leadership Role, Department Heads, Middle Management, College Faculty
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David Meech Mazumdar – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2025
This paper provides a small-scale exploration of the evolvement of leadership roles in higher education academic units (AUs), namely Departments, Schools & Faculties. A literature review provides theoretical examples of the evolution of professional services (PS) staff. Changes in PS leadership roles are also explored alongside the emergence…
Descriptors: Leadership Role, Instructional Leadership, Universities, Higher Education
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Paul, Pallab; Mukhopadhyay, Kausiki – Marketing Education Review, 2022
This article studies the research productivity of scholars and institutional departments in the field of marketing, by examining data of published articles in four premier marketing journals ("Journal of Consumer Research," "Journal of Marketing," "Journal of Marketing Research and Marketing Science") from 2010 to…
Descriptors: Productivity, College Faculty, Faculty Publishing, Marketing
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Rahmeh Abbaas B. Alhameedyeen – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
Differentiated instruction is a teaching philosophy in which faculty members recognize that no two students are identical and that each student can succeed with appropriate guidance. This study assesses the degree of implementing differentiated instruction by the faculty members of the College of Educational Sciences, The World Islamic Science and…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional)
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Todd R. Jones; Arielle A. Sloan – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
In this article, the authors document the educational pedigrees of faculty at the top 96 economics programs in the United States. They use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to provide a comprehensive update and expansion on data regarding the academic origins--both undergraduate and doctoral--of tenure-track faculty. Nearly 60…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Economics Education, Tenure, Teacher Characteristics
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Mgaiwa, Samson John – International Journal of Educational Management, 2023
Purpose: Leadership has been recognised as a critical factor for employees' job satisfaction. However, much remains to be learned about how university academics who work in developing country contexts perceive their head of departments (HoDs) and deans' leadership styles and how such leadership styles influence their job satisfaction. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Deans, Department Heads, Leadership Styles, Job Satisfaction
Hollerman, Liz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored the leadership strategies academic leaders of technology departments in higher education may use to build high-performing faculty teams. The objective of the study was to discover the most effective ways for fostering faculty ingenuity in curriculum reform for a technology-focused program. In addition, the literature review…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Capacity Building
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Ghasemy, Majid; Akbarzadeh, Mahdi; Gaskin, James Eric – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
There is a great emphasis on the importance of serving communities and the need to study servant leadership in recent higher education literature. Yet, academics' community citizenship behavior has not been examined through applied research. To address these issues, our study aims at investigating the effects of two dimensions of servant…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Job Satisfaction
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Mike Wilton; Jeffrey Maloy; Laura Beaster-Jones; Brian K. Sato; Stanley M. Lo; Daniel Z. Grunspan – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
At many research-intensive universities in North America, there is a disproportionate loss of minoritized undergraduate students from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) majors. Efforts to confront this diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) challenge, such as faculty adoption of evidenced-based instructional approaches that…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Faculty, STEM Education, Teacher Influence
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