Considering the lack of data from Iraq on the challenges faced by academics regarding academic advancement, we aimed to explore the main challenges faced by academic faculty members in Iraq in achieving academic advancement and promotion. A cross sectional 24-item Google form survey was shared via social media; 130 Iraqi academics responded. Lack…

Faculty in science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM) are expected to excel in their technical work, teaching, and professional service. Their career advancement is often determined by academic peers evaluating accomplishments in these three areas. Recently, however, there is a growing concern that the evaluation of those…

This distinctive text provides master's- and doctoral-level students, as well as new professionals, with a thorough exploration of the range of responsibilities, working conditions, roles, evaluation criteria, benefits, and challenges experienced by counselor educators. Each chapter focuses on a key aspect of the field, including teaching;…

Tenure-track/tenured faculty at higher education institutions are expected to teach, conduct research and provide service as part of their promotion and tenure process, the relative importance of each component varying with the position and/or the university. However, based on the author's personal experience, feedback received from several…

This article examines a little-studied review genre of academe: letters written for faculty retention, promotion, and tenure (RPT). Given their centrally evaluative nature, these documents have potential to illuminate academic community values, particularly those related to faculty work. Of specific interest in this study is the evaluative…

The "Survival Guide for New Faculty Members: Outlining the Keys to Success for Promotion and Tenure" provides new faculty members with practical, down-to-earth wisdom and suggestions for successfully working through to tenure and promotion. The authors--both successful and experienced administrators and experts in higher education--have provided…

This article presents the results from a survey of political science department chairs regarding the tenure procedures and standards at their colleges or universities. The findings reveal that only a small fraction of the colleges and universities in the United States refuse to offer tenure or are attempting to limit tenure. We also find general…

All tenured and tenure-track faculty know the trinity of promotion and tenure criteria: research, teaching, and service. While teaching and research are relatively well-defined areas of institutional focus and evaluation, service work is rarely tabulated or analyzed as a key aspect of higher education's political economy. Instead, service, silent…

This study adopted Jarzabkowski's (2005) qualitative, activity-based strategy as practice method to investigate leadership and management of interdisciplinary work. Interviews were conducted with 10 academics in Australia and the United Kingdom. Challenges raised by leaders of academic work can be grouped at various levels according to which…

A sample of research findings in the business/social science area is reviewed regarding: (1) how much research and publication is being done by academics; (2) the extent to which such activities have an effect on decisions associated with promotion, salary, and selection; and (3) how much importance academics themselves attach to research and…

A comparions of student and administrative opinions concerning faculty competence based on time allotted to teaching or research reveals differing and largely incorrect suppositions by both groups. (WM)

A sample of letters of recommendation regarding job applicants or staff members in view of promotions were rated independently by senior professors showing a tendency on the part of most judges to disagree with regard to the value of the letters. Relationships between letters and type and quality of university were also examined. (JT)

Guidelines for agricultural education faculty promotion/tenure include (1) assessment of institutional expectations (categorized by teaching or research institution); (2) documentation of teaching, personal attributes, advising, research, publications, committee and association work, time in rank, public service, and graduate student supervision;…

This study investigated the attitudes of college administrators in the Southeast toward different types of publications when an academician is considered for promotion. An instrument was designed around 10 selected avenues of publication including nationally, regionally, and institutionally refereed journals, national and regional magazines read…

The Biglan model of classification of academic subject areas is outlined, and its practical implications and uses by administrators for faculty evaluation are discussed. The reasons for applying subject-area standards in faculty productivity studies are examined. (MSE)