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Diamond, Lindsay; Ryan, Paris; Beziat, Tara – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2019
Mentoring is recognized as an effective way to support the development of junior faculty in higher education. Engagement in an informal or formal mentoring program will support the development of junior faculty on the path to tenure. Because the needs of individual faculty vary, many institutions of higher education have implemented formal…
Descriptors: Mentors, Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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de Saxe Zerden, Lisa; Ilinitch, Teresa L.; Carlston, Rachel; Knutson, Danielle; Blesdoe, Betsy E.; Howard, Matthew O. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2015
Administrators of schools of social work are paying more attention to the changing roles and types of faculty in their institutions, particularly given the surge of non-tenure-track faculty in academia. This topic is timely as social work grapples with the divergent roles, structure, and demographic characteristics of non-tenure-track faculty…
Descriptors: Social Work, Faculty Development, Nontenured Faculty, Women Faculty
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O'Connor, Katherine; Greene, H. Carol; Good, Amy J.; Zhang, Guili – International Education Studies, 2011
This study investigated the impact of work overload on untenured faculty (n = 38) who teach, research, and serve in the colleges of education at two research intensive universities in the United States. Both of these colleges of education are moving toward a research focus. The transition has created an overload situation by establishing high…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, Faculty Workload, College Faculty, Schools of Education
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Greene, H. Carol; O'Connor, Katherine A.; Good, Amy J.; Ledford, Carolyn C.; Peel, Betty B.; Zhang, Guili – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2008
This article describes the experiences, perceptions, and available support systems of untenured faculty from a south eastern United States public university system in their progress toward tenure. Survey results were used to develop a model support system for new faculty. Data were collected from an online survey sent to 191 tenure-track faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Tenure, Mentors