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Direct linkGray, Peter J. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1997
Assessment can be viewed as innovation to be adopted by the people in an institution. It is up to leaders in higher-education institutions to identify early-adopter and majority groups of faculty in schools, colleges, and departments and work with them to adapt assessment to local conditions in a way that overcomes any perceived disadvantages.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Attitude Change, Attitudes, Change Strategies
Jacobs, Lucy Cheser – 1987
This study surveyed faculty and students of Indiana University to ascertain their attitudes toward the evaluation of faculty by means of student ratings. Questionnaires were mailed to 200 faculty members, and 510 students were surveyed in classes. Results included the following: (1) faculty expressed generally favorable attitudes toward the use of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Course Evaluation, Faculty Evaluation
Download full textZammuto, Raymond F.; And Others – 1985
The purpose of this report is to describe the development and field testing of a two-year college version of the National Center for Higher Education Management System's (NCHEMS) Institutional Performance Survey (IPS), an instrument designed to provide information on the perceptions of various groups about the overall functioning and performance…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Employee Attitudes, Evaluation Criteria
Jacobson, Carol R. – 1982
Characteristics of outstanding faculty are considered, based on descriptions provided by 46 University of North Dakota students who were nominated for the university's 1982 Outstanding Teacher Awards. Based on descriptions in the students' own words, 124 separate characteristics were identified, and categorized as follows: teacher-student…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Nelson, Robert B.; Urff, Donna M. – 1982
University of North Dakota (UND) faculty perceptions of services and programs offered by the Division of Student Affairs were surveyed. Of the 512 faculty and administrative officers of the University Council who were mailed questionnaires in 1981, 202 responses were obtained. Findings include the following: the majority of the respondents held…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Faculty, Higher Education, Information Needs
Davidson, Judy – 1976
As part of a multi-phase, multi-method study of the House Plan at Cypress College in California, this study investigated faculty association patterns, assuming that faculty greatly impact campus life, and the general campus milieu. In April 1976, a random sample of 100 full-time faculty, stratified along division lines, were sent survey…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Departments
Keetz, Mary A. – 1981
The status of women faculty at West Chester State College, Pennsylvania in 1979-1980 was examined. The data permit longitudinal comparisons concerning: the distribution of full-time professional staff by rank, division, and sex as related to the national percentages; the number of student majors and degrees conferred by faculty, school,…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Departments
Blai, Boris, Jr. – 1982
Views of students and teachers regarding the characteristics of the "better" teacher were assessed, based on results from a parallel-perceptions survey conducted with students in three diverse institutions. Approximately 838 students enrolled in the 1970s at Harcum Junior College, Illinois State University, and Denison University…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Helping Relationship
Dunwell, Robert R. – 1981
The organizational climate of Southeast Missouri State University was assessed as part of an institutional self-study, and the appropriateness and effectiveness of the research instrument were evaluated. Twenty-five characteristics identified by Likert (1961, 1967) as descriptive of highly effective work groups were used as a framework for the…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship
Lea, H. Daniel; And Others – 1977
A random sample of 152 faculty (76% return rate) at the University of Maryland, College Park completed a version of the Situational Attitude Scale - Commuter, which assessed their differential attitudes toward commuting versus resident students in a situational context. Data were analyzed by t-tests at the .05 level, and only 7 of 60 items were…
Descriptors: Bias, College Faculty, College Students, Commuting Students
Bolte, John R.; Coleman, D. R. – 1978
The balancing of salary needs for financial resources requires that university administrators take a careful look at supply and demand factors in the academic marketplace when allocating salary funds to colleges and departments within a university. Quality academic programs can be maintained only if quality faculty members are attracted and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Budgeting, College Faculty, Competition
Bannerman, James W. – 1977
It was the purpose of a practicum to develop a policy for distribution of salary increases in the industrial engineering technology department, using modern wage and salary administration techniques and the management expertise of the faculty. The dean of the Southern Technical Institute and the department head jointly identified seven criteria…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Faculty, Departments, Engineering Education
North East Association for Institutional Research. – 1977
Papers are on the topics of: perspectives on the place of institutional research in policy, programs, and politics (William H. Faricy, Virginia P. Mitchell, Paul L. Kenepp, Dwight C. Smith, Jr., Wendell G. Lorang, Jr., Ronald H. Stein); assessment and management in higher education (Jerry W. Brown, J. Barton Luedeke, Adolph Katz, James J.…
Descriptors: Administration, College Faculty, Conference Reports, Decision Making
Palola, Ernest G.; And Others – 1977
Program Effectiveness and Related Costs (PERC), a comprehensive data management plan developed at Empire State College, is the subject of this explanatory report. Chapter 1 presents the conceptual framework of the program which incorporates data on outcomes, costs, programs, students, and faculty, and also incorporates a "multiple perspectives…
Descriptors: Budgeting, College Faculty, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis
Gold, Ben K. – 1973
Los Angeles City College participated in a Statewide survey of institutional goals. The Institutional Goals Inventory was given to 400 LACC faculty, day and evening students, and community people, and 92 percent were returned. Inventory statements covered 20 goal areas designed to determine present thinking as to what the institutional goals are…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attitudes
