This publication examines the perceptions of school administrators in the Mid-Atlantic Association for School, College and University Staffing (MAASCUS) region, which includes Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The report begins with an extensive literature review…

This is the second publication released from the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF), a study about faculty and instructional staff in U.S. higher education institutions. The document presents findings from the institution survey of NSOPF-93 regarding their policies and practices toward faculty and staff, including: full-time,…

Argues that the rhetoric of survival or surrender was developed by many administrators and teachers during the 1960's. The message was that most of the responsibility for the student's success or failure lay with something or somebody other than the student, and the result was an atmosphere of anti-intellectualism and irresponsibility in…

A poem expressing the author's perceptions and feelings about the rhetoric of survival or surrender developed during the 1960's by many administrators and teachers, encouraging students to think that the cause of their success or failure lies in the institution or something or somebody other than the student. (Author/JM)

This study represents one phase of a larger research effort directed at the development and testing of a comprehensive teacher education evaluation model. The study focused primarily on obtaining attitudinal and occupational information from graduates of the Iowa State teacher education program one year after graduation. Student perceptions of…

All graduates of Eastern Illinois University from 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985 (n=7703) were compared on high school predictor scores (American College Testing--ACTs--and class ranks) and university grade point averages (GPA)--cumulative GPA, junior and senior GPA, and junior and senior GPA adjusted by removing professional education courses.…

This two-volume evaluation report of the Initiation to Teaching Project of Alberta Education, Canada, presents detailed information on the project, which provided employment as interns to nearly 900 recent graduates of teacher preparation programs. The report includes many elements: (1) a literature review; (2) a collection of information about…

This report presents the results of the evaluation of the 2-year Initiation to Teaching Project, implemented in schools in Alberta, Canada in 1985. The project provided employment in teaching for recently graduated teachers and supported their transition into full-time teaching with professional assistance. The report is divided into six sections:…

These two papers present opposing arguments regarding the issue of using market factors to determine faculty salaries. In the first paper, Thomas E. Wagner begins by outlining factors that are relevant to determining faculty pay, including years of service, academic rank, teaching ability, research and scholarship, community and institutional…

Salary and fringe benefit data for faculty at the University of California (the University) and the California State University (State University) are examined. The objective is to predict where faculty salaries at the two universities will stand in relation to those at their respective comparison groups of institutions on July 1, 1984. Ways in…

Sex differences in tenure and promotion rates and time to tenure and promotion at the University of Maryland, College Park, were studied longitudinally. The study population consisted of tenure-tract assistant and associate professors appointed or promoted in 1973, 1975, and 1977, excluding part-time and visiting faculty. Campus-wide, 42 percent…

Information on provisions of group life insurance plans and the tendency of colleges and universities to provide this coverage is considered. There has been an increase in the percentage of institutions adopting group life insurance plans over the last decade. Absence of coverage is concentrated among smaller two-year and four-year institutions…

Reported are the results of a National Science Foundation-sponsored survey conducted by the Higher Education Panel of the American Council on Education. For this survey, the Council asked the 535 2- and 4-year colleges belonging to the Panel how many full-time faculty they hired in 1976-77 in selected fields, the proportion of those hired who had…

Tenure practices in science and engineering (S/E) departments in universities and 4-year colleges with tenure systems were estimated, based on a 1978-79 survey of member institutions of the Higher Education Panel of the American Council on Education. The survey findings were designed to help assess the effect of the tenure system on the number of…

This document contains the forecasts of teacher needs for the public and private systems combined in the Province of Quebec. These forecasts are results of student/teacher reports and some forecasts of rate of annual teacher departure. The forecasts are based on three hypotheses of rate of population growth and are provided at the kindergarten,…