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Priddie, Christen; Palmer, Dajanae; Silberstein, Samantha; BrckaLorenz, Allison – To Improve the Academy, 2022
While much of the quantitative research on Black women faculty has taken a comparative approach to understanding their experiences, this study provides a counternarrative, centering their experiences as faculty. This large-scale, multi-institution glance at Black women faculty helps to give us an overview of these women across the country, looking…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Females, Women Faculty, College Faculty
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Indorf, Jane L.; Benabentos, Rocio; Daubenmire, Patrick; Murasko, Donna; Hazari, Zahra; Potvin, Geoff; Kramer, Laird; Marsteller, Pat; Thompson, Katerina V.; Cassone, Vincent M.; Stanford, Jennifer S. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
Despite decades of research indicating that active learning techniques (ALTs) are more effective than traditional lecture, ALTs are not widely implemented in STEM undergraduate classrooms. While ALT implementation is happening in a number of disciplines, including the geosciences, most STEM teaching remains lecture-based. Understanding the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Active Learning, Nontenured Faculty, Tenure
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Michel, Jessica Ostrow; Chadi, Diana; Jimenez, Marisol; Campbell, Corbin M. – Innovative Higher Education, 2018
The American professoriate is shifting its majority makeup from tenure track to non-tenure track faculty members. Less known, though, is what the implications of this shift are for students' course experiences. We sought to examine the extent to which the teaching practices, with regard to academic rigor and cognitively responsive teaching, differ…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty, Student Experience
Robinson, Janet L. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The increased diversity of students at community colleges makes support and retention of Black women instructional faculty critical. Black women instructional faculty may feel like imposters, receiving messages of inadequacy, despite their achievements. If so, such feelings may impede their ability to serve students and to thrive more generally in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Women Faculty, College Faculty, African American Teachers
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Kezar, Adrianna – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
For several decades, there has been increasing criticism, first of the tenure track system and now at the rise in adjunct and non-tenure track faculty. Few believe the professoriate is organized in ways to meet institutional missions, deliver educational quality, or meet the goals of student success. The critiques suggest that tenure-track models…
Descriptors: Tenure, Models, Institutional Mission, Nontenured Faculty
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Xu, Di; Solanki, Sabrina – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2020
This article presents new quasi-experimental evidence regarding the effectiveness of teaching-oriented faculty with tenure-track appointment, a model pioneered at the University of California (UC) system. Using data from six cohorts of students at a UC campus, we examine the impact of initial course-taking with three distinct types of…
Descriptors: Tenure, Teaching (Occupation), College Faculty, Outcomes of Education
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Pacheco, Guillermo; Espinoza, María-Isabel; Cabrera-Arias, Sandra; Cabrera-Tenecela, Patricio – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Continuous changes in social demand and development provide an acute and continuous pressure on universities. The question is whether higher education institutions (HEI) in Ecuador deliver graduates with the competences to provide timely economic, ecological, and sustainable solutions. Additionally, HEIs should prepare graduates to find employment…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Aptitude
Mezu, Onyewuchi Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this quantitative study was to use Senge's theory of the Learning Organization to examine faculty perceptions of the importance of information literacy education and the integration of information literacy instruction at three Mid-Atlantic community colleges. The researcher examined faculty characteristics (gender, race, and age)…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Information Literacy, Community Colleges
Helba, Cynthia; Porter, Anne Marie; Nicholson, Starr; Ivie, Rachel – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2019
The Academic WorkForce Survey has been conducted every two years since 1986. Between March and June 2018, researchers contacted 797 physics and astronomy departments (including 39 astronomy-only departments) that award a bachelor's degree or higher in physics or astronomy. Responses were received from 720 institutions, a 90% response rate. This…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Women Faculty, Science Teachers, Physics
Porter, Anne Marie; Tyler, John; Nicholson, Starr; Ivie, Rachel – AIP Statistical Research Center, 2020
In any academic department, faculty members retire or leave for a variety of reasons, and new faculty members are hired to replace departing faculty or fill newly created positions. This report focuses on departures, retirements, recruitments, and new hires in physics and astronomy departments. In our Academic Workforce Surveys, we collect the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Science Teachers, Physics, Astronomy
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Webber, Karen L.; Rogers, Samantha M. – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Guided by Hagedorn's (2000) theory of faculty job satisfaction, mindful of social and organizational structures of higher education, and acknowledging recent changes in the academic labor market, this study examines satisfaction for approximately 30,000 tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 100 US colleges and universities. Findings revealed…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Job Satisfaction, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Arnold, Noelle; Osanloo, Azadeh F.; Sherman Newcomb, Whitney – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2021
This article examines the costs faculty pay to gain status and security in the academy. Academics receive salaries for their work, but also "pay taxes" in order to maintain a positive trajectory toward the ultimate "prize"--promotion and tenure (PT). The psychology of narrative method is used to examine the articulation of the…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Teacher Responsibility, Minority Group Teachers, Tenure
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Silva, Elise; Galbraith, Quinn; Groesbeck, Michael – College & Research Libraries, 2017
This study explores how time and experience affect an academic librarian's perception of tenure. Researchers surveyed 846 librarians at ARL institutions, reporting on institutions that offer both tenure and faculty status for their academic librarians or neither. The survey reported how librarians rated tenure's benefit to patrons, its effect in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Attitude Measures, Tenure
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Tkachenko, Oleksandr; Louis, Karen Seashore – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This study retrospectively examines the emergence and development of a new class of full-time non-tenure track employees in a large land grant research university in the U.S., which created the employment category in 1980. We employ cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) to explore how this class of employees became institutionalized within…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Tenure, Research Universities
National Council of Teachers of English, 2016
Since the 1980s, as composition has grown as a scholarly field, the composition job market has grown correspondingly in both size and complexity. Specifically, over the fourteen years since academic year (AY) 2000-2001, ads seeking expertise in composition and rhetoric have consistently made up 30 percent or more of all job ads placed in the…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Personnel Selection, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty
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