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Who Are the Part-Time Faculty?
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Monks, James – Academe, 2009
The use of contingent faculty in higher education in the United States has grown tremendously over the past three decades. In 1975, only 30.2 percent of faculty were employed part time; by 2005, according to data compiled by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS),…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Tenure
Transition of Higher Education Graduates to the Labour Market: Are Employment Procedures More Meritocratic in the Public Sector?
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Berggren, Caroline – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
As an employer, the public sector might be expected to be more meritocratic than the private sector, because of its democratic values and more transparent appointments procedures. In this context meritocratic means that the employer only considers characteristics such as degree and grades, relevant for the position in question. The individuals in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Sector, Labor Market, Public Sector
African American Faculty Women Experiences of Underrepresentation in Computer Technology Positions in Higher Education
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King, Dolores – ProQuest LLC, 2013
African American women are underrepresented in computer technology disciplines in institutions of higher education throughout the United States. Although equitable gender representation is progressing in most fields, much less information is available on why institutions are still lagging in workforce diversity, a problem which can be lessened by…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Women Faculty, Information Technology, Disproportionate Representation
Building the Capacity to Innovate: The Role of Human Capital. Research Report
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Smith, Andrew; Courvisanos, Jerry; Tuck, Jacqueline; McEachern, Steven – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This report examines the link between human resource management practices and innovation. It is based on a conceptual framework in which "human resource stimuli measures"--work organisation, working time, areas of training and creativity--feed into innovative capacity or innovation. Of course, having innovative capacity does not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Creativity, Human Capital
Gender and Recent Graduates' Occupational Stratification: The Interactive Role of the Educational and Employment Sectors in Four Countries
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Prix, Irene – Comparative Education, 2009
This paper explores whether polytechnic and university graduates are affected in the same way by gender differences in the graduate labour market in four countries: the Netherlands, Finland, Norway and Switzerland. Using data from the Research into Employment and Professional Flexibility (REFLEX) graduate survey, the analysis is based on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Graduate Surveys
Building the Capacity to Innovate: The Role of Human Capital--Support Document
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Smith, Andrew; Courvisanos, Jerry; Tuck, Jacqueline; McEachern, Steven – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report "Building the Capacity to Innovate: The Role of Human Capital," and is an added resource for further information. This document contains the following appendices: (1) Survey methodology; (2) Synopsis of the literature; (3) Interview questions; and (4) Survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Research Methodology, Literature Reviews