A survey of business administration faculty in 15 British institutions revealed teachers felt their institutions undervalued teaching of part-time students and were enthusiastic about classroom practice. Problems were found in academic freedom, accommodating part-time schedules, and dissonance between school and work among both faculty and…

Analyzes publication characteristics of a biliterate environment--in this case the the business administration faculty in a danish business school. Faculty read predominantly in English, publish in both Danish and English, but interact with one another almost exclusively in Danish. Data on text production, reception nd publication are used to…

Compared job satisfaction of male and female college faculty in law, business, and home economics units. Compared to men, women in business and law were less satisfied with their work, but equally satisfied with pay, promotion opportunities, supervision, and co-workers. In home economics, men and women were equally satisfied with all five job…

The American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) has liberalized its employment and evaluation standards for business administration faculty with doctorates from nonbusiness disciplines. The guidelines are examined and interpreted for use by deans who must make employment decisions and counsel these faculty concerning their status.…

A study investigated perceptions of the business school dean's role in implementing the new American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business accreditation standards. Factors supporting or constraining that role, as viewed by deans, management and marketing department chairs, and faculty at four accredited comprehensive universities, were noted.…

In this article we show how management faculty have successfully incorporated teaching and research to better acquaint their students in organizational behavior classes with how groupware actually works in organizations and how to think through the ramifications of the groupware process in organizational decision making. The exercise is conducted…

International experience is critical for MBA faculty and students, but providing such experience as part of the curriculum is often difficult for relatively small programs. This article briefly describes how the College of Business and Technology at Southeastern Louisiana University developed a partnership program in Costa Rica as one step toward…

During the early part of the present century it became clear that in our efforts to emphasize general education we were neglecting vocational education. The agitation to correct that defect resulted in the passage of the Smith-Hughes law in 1917 and the development of an effective system of vocational education "of less than college…

This document provides comparative salary trend data for full-time faculty in 26 academic disciplines/major fields for the baseline year 1994-95 and the trend year 1997-98 for 262 public and 387 private institutions. For each discipline/major field surveyed, the report provides a Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) definition, data…

Several studies examining computer-mediated communications (CMC) in online courses have found low levels of participation under both voluntary (ungraded) and mandatory (graded) conditions. This is troubling since student participation is widely considered to have a positive impact on performance. Program-level data were analyzed to explore the…

To develop practical Web-based instruction (WBI) design guidelines for faculty and instructional support staff, the author analyzed three different WBI design cases based on interviews with three experts. On the surface, the WBI design processes that each expert used look more alike than different, entailing similar major steps. The underlying…

This article examines differences by teaching area among a sample of faculty in U.S. business schools and compares their responses to those of practicing business executives. It appears that business executives hold more conservative, traditional attitudes that are not always shared by business school faculty. (CT)

Across the country, students are flocking to graduate business schools that teach them how to start and run a business. About 400 schools now offer courses in entrepreneurship, and about 125 have organized entrepreneurship programs. Faculty being recruited for the programs have practical experience, but tend not to have doctorates. Many students…

One college faculty member's experiences in applying Deming management theory to his business courses to improve instruction are discussed. Key issues in the Deming philosophy are outlined, course changes based on them are described, and outcomes are examined. Suggestions are offered for overcoming institutional and ideological barriers. (MSE)

A survey of pharmaceutical manufacturing executives (n=52) and pharmacy educators (n=15) found both groups expect some form of managed health care plan to cover 45 percent of outpatient prescriptions by 1994, 70 percent in 1999. They agreed pharmacists will need more business education and technicians will play an increasing role in dispensing.…