Data from the 1970 census is used to analyze ways of upgrading the professional qualifications of rural teachers. (Author/ND)

Notes popular ideas about workload supported or challenged by recent research and recommends the use of standardized categories that define the components of workload, developed by a task force at the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMA), so that results of workload studies may be compared. (JT)

No-deadline sections of a personalized child development course and sections that had deadlines were compared in regard to proctor workload, proctor grading accuracy, and pressure on proctors. A total of 167 students in four sections of the course, and five proctors and one instructor per section, participated in the study. Students in the…

A questionnaire was sent to the chief academic office of 20 universities to determine a fair and uniform workload for faculty at Central Missouri State University (CMSU). The mean undergraduate teaching load reported by the 18 responding institutions was 11.89 contact hours/week, as compared with 15.6 contact hours/week reported by CMSU faculty.…

This agreement was made on June 28, 1973 by and between Bryant College of Business Administration and the Bryant Faculty Federation, Local 1769, American Federation of Teachers, AFT-CIO. Articles of the Agreement cover; faculty-board relations, dues deductions, department chairman functions, faculty committees, tenure, promotion, reappointment,…

Two important factors in the development of the Caribbean University are the cultural domination of the metropolitan countries to which they were attached, and the sharp divergence, in respect to financing, between the American model in Puerto Rico on the one hand and the British model in the University of the West Indies on the other. Against…

Comparative staffing units quantify the direct instructional, related instructional, and related professional activities of university instructional faculty members. This method measures estimated faculty input, rather than output, and offers a number of advantages over the more traditional workload measures of credit hours, student credit hours,…

Articles of the agreement cover relationship between the board and the association, use of college facilities, faculty fringe benefits, academic freedom and responsibility, selection of department chairmen, participation in decision making, faculty evaluation, faculty grievance procedures, faculty workload, access to faculty personnel files,…

The faculty agreement between the Board of Trustees and the Oakland University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors covers the 1972-73 year. Articles of the agreement include definitions, recognition, work of the bargaining unit, academic ranks and titles, association rights, discipline and discharge, professional…

In the early 1950's, economist Beardsley Ruml recommended that colleges and universities bring faculty salaries into comparable categories with other professionals by increasing the student-faculty ratio to twenty to one. Such a suggestion was greeted with enthusiasm from trustees and many administrators, but faculty were totally against the…

The University of Bradford was designated as the target for research directed toward identifying potential economies in the teaching of students under alternative sets of assumptions, in order that action may be taken to secure a more economic use of resources in the higher education sector. Part one looks generally at the nature of university…

An investigation of how well the predictor variables of credit hours, student credit hours, contact hours, student contact hours, level of instruction, and academic rank correlate with faculty self-report measures of time-use for each class taught showed that only contact hours were a reliable measure of faculty effort as measured in time for a…

The time available to teachers for research is examined in several countries by comparing the availability and conditions of study leave, lengths of vacation, and the number of teaching "contract" hours required of teachers. Some differences exist in actual term time and study leave for research. (SW)

In response to burgeoning nontraditional student enrollments in freshman composition at the University of New Orleans, the entire English faculty has begun to teach all levels of composition courses. Benefits from this development have included student appreciation, an improvement in faculty morale, and a tightening of academic standards. (DF)

Reviews six decades of committee findings on the supply and demand for science teachers in Great Britain, and lists 11 proposals for improving the supply of good science teachers. (GS)