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Giulio Marini – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Brexit raised the question of whether the UK will continue to attract internationals. Here the focus is on academic staff - a critical component of the "War for Talents" discourse and current geopolitics in the field. Despite a clear trend of loss of EU internationals, at least among western EU countries, the UK more than compensates for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, International Educational Exchange, Faculty Recruitment
Melissa Emrey-Arras – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
While the U.S. population has become increasingly diverse, college faculty may not reflect those same levels of diversity. Little is known at the national level about the relationship between faculty diversity and student outcomes. Separately, faculty have reported experiencing discrimination at colleges. GAO was asked to review faculty diversity…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Referral, Federal Government
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Scanlon, Daniel J.; Kline, Kimberly A. – New York Journal of Student Affairs, 2023
Higher education has yet to address the deeper causes of inequities in student participation rates in study abroad programs across student demographics. Factors contributing to inequities include disparities in access to social and cultural capital and neglect of identity-related experiences of racially minoritized and first-generation,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Participation, Minority Group Students, College Students
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Hazir Ullah; Abdul Wahid Qureshi; Rabia Ali – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
The issue of grade inflation has been studied in many countries across the globe, yet it remains under-researched in Pakistan. This study aims to understand grade inflation in Pakistani universities by examining the contributing factors and its consequences. The data for this study was collected through in-depth interviews of 20 professors from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade Inflation, College Faculty, Higher Education
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Chen, Ningyang – Tertiary Education and Management, 2022
China's phenomenal growth in higher education has received increasing scholarly attention, particularly its initiative to build world-class universities. Though a crucial contributor to its rapid development, the changing hiring practices of mainland Chinese university employers remain largely underexposed. This study presents qualitative evidence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Recruitment, Preferences
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Shibayama, Sotaro – Higher Education Quarterly, 2022
Producing original knowledge is the foundation of scientific progress. Originality is associated with certain skills and practices that can be trained and socialised. This study investigates how inbreeding as a career practice influences the socialisation of originality. An analysis based on a sample of mid-career life scientists in Japan finds…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Biological Sciences, Laboratories
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Benz, Pierre; Bühlmann, Felix; Mach, André – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Over the recent decades, the turn to managerial governance has thoroughly transformed the European university systems and, by extension, the careers of university professors. Scholars postulated that professors' careers have undergone an increasing formalization, that disciplinary careers have been hybridized, and that new modes of selection and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Career Development, Classification, Academic Rank (Professional)
John Sailer – National Association of Scholars, 2023
American higher education has recently embraced a new tool for advancing its commitment to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI). Many colleges and universities are now engaged in "DEI cluster hiring," a practice which ultimately embodies higher education's turn toward political and social activism. Unfortunately, it has…
Descriptors: Diversity, Equal Education, Inclusion, Personnel Selection
Valentina Holder – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In October 2022, the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) dashboard reported 5,266 full-time White faculty and 714 Black faculty. Only 10% of full-time curriculum instructors were Black, whereas 82% were White (Admin, 2019). Since Black faculty are underrepresented, their voices are often unheard. This qualitative research described the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, African Americans, College Faculty, Disproportionate Representation
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Chan Hum; Tae-Hee Choi; Sing-Kai Lo; Say Sok; Wai Mui Christina Yu – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2024
Purpose: This study examines the management practices and alignment features needed to develop academic staff's careers, mainly focusing on teaching competencies in the evolving landscape of Cambodian public universities. Design/methodology/approach: A multiple-case research design was adopted to collect data from interviews with 11 academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Faculty Development, Human Resources
Civera, Alice; Lehmann, Erik E.; Meoli, Michele; Paleari, Stefano – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The academic professoriate is a determinant of successful higher education systems. Yet, recently, worsening conditions of employment, deteriorating salaries, and threats to job security have made the academic profession less attractive, especially to young scholars, in several countries. This paper investigates the salaries as well as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Career Choice, College Faculty
McBride, Tiffany N. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Although institutions of higher education have set goals to increase faculty diversity, researchers note the continued challenge for faculty of color, specifically Black females. While there is a significant amount of literature on the lived experiences of Black women faculty at predominantly White institutions (PWIs), there has been little…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Women Faculty, Predominantly White Institutions, Interpersonal Communication
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Debra L. Franko; Erinn Taylor de Barroso; Sabina Nawaz; Jan Rinehart; Stacy Blake-Beard – Journal of Faculty Development, 2023
Academic leaders in higher education come by and large from majority white faculty. This article describes the development of a consortium-based faculty leadership program intentionally designed for Black and Latino faculty, the specific ways the program components addressed issues of race in the context of leadership, and the recruitment…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, African American Teachers, Hispanic Americans, College Faculty
Harney, John O. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Thirteen New England colleges and universities have signed on to New England Board of Higher Education's (NEBHE's) new North Star Collective (NSC), a multi-institutional collaborative to boost Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) early-career faculty at New England colleges and universities. Built on a Reparative Justice Framework, NEBHE…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Racial Bias, Teacher Recruitment, Minority Group Teachers
Madeleine R. Ryan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) faculty and staff are influential in the recruitment and retention of intercultural students to higher education institutions. This study sought to investigate and strengthen the recruitment experiences of BIPOC students as they navigated the process at a highly competitive, predominantly white…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Participation, Student Recruitment
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