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Hutchings, Pat – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1994
Advocates development of a campus culture in which faculty can be colleagues to each other in teaching by sharing what they know, critiquing each other's work, assisting each other to improve, and creating conditions for recognition and reward of teaching. Covers the role of peer review and briefly describes some institutions' efforts. (JB)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Role
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Direct linkLau, Brad A. – NASPA Journal, 2005
One of the great challenges facing Christian higher education is the role and impact of student behavior codes in furthering institutional values and inculcating those values in the students served by such institutions. The perspectives of administrators, faculty members, and students regarding the rationale for codes of conduct at their…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Higher Education, Church Related Colleges, Student Attitudes
Jackson, Stephen – 1991
Balancing the vocational and educational components in technical institutions today is difficult, requiring that faculty and administrators have vision, political realism, moral integrity, and energy. To understand better the rationale which underlies present forms of nonuniversity, postsecondary college education, a study was conducted at three…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Environment
Astin, Alexander W.; Scherrei, Rita A. – 1980
The effect of the managerial style of a college's administrative team on student and faculty behaviors is examined. Reported are the findings of a five-year nationwide study that collected data on the style of administrations at each of 49 colleges and universities and information on the degree of student and faculty satisfaction and involvement…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Evaluation, College Administration
Download full textCarnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ. – 1989
Results of the fourth annual survey of over 5,000 college faculty in all types of higher education institutions are reported. The information gathered is organized in eight categories: the goals of collegiate education; academic standards; attitudes about student life; teaching, research, and service; the status of the profession; views of the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Age Differences, College Environment, College Faculty
Fuchs, Rachel G.; Lovano-Kerr, Jessie – 1981
Concerns of tenure-line, nontenured faculty regarding retention, professional development, and quality of life were studied in 1979 at Indiana University. Study objectives were to identify obstacles to tenure level performance, conditions that might influence faculty to seek positions elsewhere, demographic data, appointment data, and information…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Environment, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis
1981
The need for a comprehensive evaluation of the quality of education at the University of Florida, Gainesville, was investigated by the Student Government Department of Education during fall quarter 1979 and winter quarter 1980. Twelve areas were examined: The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, evaluations by professional associations,…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, College Curriculum, College Environment, College Faculty
Baird, Leonard L.; And Others – 1980
A comprehensive guide to the use of environmental assessments for understanding and improving student and faculty life is presented. Environmental assessments are examined as tools for academic decision-makers in understanding the extent and quality of the communication among its members, their sense of community, their emphasis on academic rigor,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Environment, College Faculty
Neuhauser, Rudolf – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2004
Following prolonged discussion, the Austrian government has passed a new University Act which will provide universities with a semiautonomous status. The reform is the most incisive change of the university system for the past 150 years and has been preceded by an equally momentous change in the status of the teaching faculty and staff, all future…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Work Environment
Pascarella, Ernest T.; Terenzini, Patrick T. – 1975
This study, done at Syracuse University in 1975, investigated the multidimensional differences in freshman perceptions and experience of the academic and non-academic aspects of college associated with varying amounts of informal contact with faculty. Discriminant analysis indicated that factor dimensions, termed Interest Value, Practical Appeal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Environment, College Faculty, College Freshmen
Bender, Ignaz; Henning, Wolfgang – 1980
The management of universities in Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands was studied as part of a 1979 survey of the present and future trends of university management in Europe. The survey addressed the organization of the university and its administration, the structure and process of decision-making, and the opinions of students, teachers, and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes
Temple, Paul; Petrov, Georgy – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2004
Many observers have noted that corruption in higher education is widespread in the states of the former Soviet Union. Little empirical evidence is available, however. This article examines some theoretical approaches to the study of corruption, and presents empirical data on corruption in higher education from Russia and Azerbaijan, collected by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Educational Principles
Tierney, William G. – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2004
Over the last several years the author conducted 126 interviews and held four focus groups with academic staff, administrators and others associated with Australian universities, about the problems and challenges they believed faced the system of tertiary education. Widespread concern and pessimism pervaded the interviews about the future of…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Lockwood, G.; Prosser, E. – 1979
Trends in university management in Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom were studied as part of a larger study of European universities. The survey instrument collected information on basic facts on the institution, the organizational system, the decision-making system, the administrative structure, management techniques and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes
