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Dew, Debra Frank – College Composition and Communication, 2009
This article defines applied rhetorical work as integral to the intellectual work of writing program administration and asks our professional organizations to classify it as such within our position statements. With a specific case, it offers a generative framework for representing and assessing the work's scholarly commons for professional…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Administrator Role, Writing (Composition), Intellectual Disciplines
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Robinson, David Z. – BioScience, 1972
Presents arguments in favor of retaining tenured positions. (AL)
Descriptors: Editorials, Faculty Evaluation, Professors, Tenure
Howard, Jennifer – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
University presses have complained for years that tenure committees unfairly expect their editors to be arbiters of what counts as tenure-worthy work. At the same time, the presses have been caught in a business-side squeeze between dwindling sales (and shrinking subsidies) and the ever-greater pressure on scholars to publish. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Tenure, University Presses, College Faculty, Scholarship
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Masse, Michelle A., Ed.; Hogan, Katie J., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2010
All tenured and tenure-track faculty know the trinity of promotion and tenure criteria: research, teaching, and service. While teaching and research are relatively well-defined areas of institutional focus and evaluation, service work is rarely tabulated or analyzed as a key aspect of higher education's political economy. Instead, service, silent…
Descriptors: Tenure, Females, Labor, Rewards
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Hyon, Sunny – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
Among Swales' (1996) list of occluded academic genres, retention-promotion-tenure (RPT) evaluations have been little studied. These evaluative reports, however, can inform EAP researchers, teachers, and students about ways that writers both follow and transgress discourse conventions to fulfill various purposes through an institutional text.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Tenure, Figurative Language, Familiarity
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Henry, Joanne Kirk – Nursing Outlook, 1981
A study of tenure in schools of nursing found that tenure policies are generally determined by the parent institution and do not meet the current needs of nursing education. (JOW)
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Nursing Education, Postsecondary Education, Surveys
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Fairweather, James S. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2002
This chapter translates the recommendations made in the issue's previous chapters to inform departmental and college personnel decisions, particularly promotion and tenure. (EV)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Faculty Promotion, Higher Education
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Kandiko, C. B.; Blackmore, P. – Journal of Institutional Research, 2008
This study adopted Jarzabkowski's (2005) qualitative, activity-based strategy as practice method to investigate leadership and management of interdisciplinary work. Interviews were conducted with 10 academics in Australia and the United Kingdom. Challenges raised by leaders of academic work can be grouped at various levels according to which…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Interviews, College Faculty, Tenure
Williams, Richard C. – Junior Coll J, 1969
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Teacher Qualifications, Tenure
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Furniss, W. Todd – Educational Record, 1971
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Faculty Mobility
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Hall, Daniel E. – Educational Forum, 1997
Reviews the history of the tenure system and its constitutional and due process implications. Describes Florida's sustained performance review program, an evaluation of tenured faculty every seven years to encourage continuing professional development. (SK)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Due Process, Faculty Evaluation, Legal Problems
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Sorcinelli, Mary Deane – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2002
Describes criticisms of the current tenure process and the ways in which it impedes realization of Boyer's vision in "Scholarship Reconsidered." Explores some encouraging changes that directly address flaws in the tenure process and work to more effectively and flexibly validate and encourage the multiple types of scholarship that Boyer…
Descriptors: Change, College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Higher Education
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Garvie, Peter – ACA Bulletin, 1992
Criticizes the current state of college faculty evaluation and recruiting. Identifies three main problems of today's bureaucratic system of evaluation. Discusses problems common in tenure deliberations. (HB)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Higher Education, Recruitment
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Shapiro, Howard N. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2006
After two decades of reform, faculty and administrators at research universities have not shifted their attention from teaching to learning. It is also evident that promotion and tenure decisions for faculty are not clear cut. The picture becomes even murkier for faculty with a more even balance between traditional disciplinary research and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Faculty Promotion, Faculty Evaluation
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Herzog, Serge – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2008
Among the varied analytical challenges institutional researchers face, examining faculty pay may be one of the most vexing. Although the literature on faculty compensation analysis dates back to the 1970s (Loeb and Ferber, 1971; Gordon, Morton, and Braden, 1974; Scott, 1977; Braskamp and Johnson, 1978; McLaughlin, Smart, and Montgomery, 1978),…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Land Grant Universities, Compensation (Remuneration), Workers Compensation
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