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Lodahl, Janice Beyer; Gordon, Gerald – American Sociological Review, 1972
This study is concerned with domonstrating and discussing some of the differences between scientific fields in the functioning of graduate departments, where the goals of teaching and research and the technology determined by the structure of knowledge are in close interaction. (Authors)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Departments, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Griffin, Villard S., Jr. – Journal of Geological Education, 1979
Reports of a survey of 36 Southeastern United States geoscience departments on policy, faculty size, salaries, teaching, and research. Departments are classified into five categories by university enrollment. (Author/MA)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Science, Geology, Higher Education
Kash, Don E.; Lewis, Courtland S. – Engineering Education, 1988
Discusses the driving force behind interdisciplinary research organizations such as intellectual and socioeconomic needs, skepticism of the organizations and questions of research quality. Elements of successful organizations including three approaches on tenure-promotion decisions are described. (YP)
Descriptors: College Science, Engineering Education, Faculty Promotion, Higher Education