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Gonzalez, Lynn Passmore – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The mission of higher education and the activities of faculty are often described in terms of teaching, research, and service. Additionally, tenure has been the standard model for employment in American college and universities since 1940. The traditional model of faculty earning tenure through high standards of teaching, research, and service is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tenure, Academic Freedom, College Faculty
Thedwall, Kate – New Directions for Higher Education, 2008
A history of the professoriate would not be complete without an account of nontenure-track faculty. Whether these faculty members are referenced using the terms "contingent," "part time," "contract," "adjunct," "clinical," "research," "visiting," "lecturer," or…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Tenure
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2015
This Accountability Report shows the status and progression of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) from one year to the next. The Executive Summary is divided into the following sections: (1) Dashboard; (2) Key Achievements; and (3) Narrative. Data tables on FAMU's financial resources, personnel, enrollment, undergraduate…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Accountability, Educational Finance, School Personnel
Hackmann, Donald G.; McCarthy, Martha M. – Planning and Changing, 2011
This study was conducted to develop a demographic profile of full-time educational leadership clinical faculty, to identify their professional responsibilities, and to compare their job satisfaction and perceptions of the educational leadership field with those of tenure-line faculty. Utilizing an online questionnaire, 140 clinical faculty and 755…
Descriptors: Profiles, Demography, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training
Kurland, Jordan E. – Academe, 2008
This article presents three recent American Association of University Professors (AAUP) cases that involved the dismissal of a senior non-tenure-track member of the faculty. The most recent case resulted in the investigating committee's report on Nicholls State University, a regional public institution in Louisiana. Preceding Nicholls was an…
Descriptors: Investigations, Tenure, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
Academe, 2009
Boston University (BU) has had a history of contentious relations between administrators and faculty. John Silber, who ran the university from the early 1970s through the late 1990s, gave faculty little say in university governance, and an "us versus them" atmosphere soon developed. In 2004, however, major changes in the board of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Nontenured Faculty
Kezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2012
It is important for administrators, faculty, and policy makers to understand and consider how policies commonly associated with non-tenure-track faculty roles and working environments impact student learning. Many policies impede the ability of faculty to provide effective instruction that is aligned with departmental and institutional goals for…
Descriptors: Tenure, Outcomes of Education, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty
Lund, Jacalyn; Boyce, B. Ann; Oates, Richard; Fiorentino, Leah – Quest, 2010
If one reads the paper or listens to the news, professional disposition are almost becoming critical job skills in the world of work. Similarly, faculty dispositions, defined in this article as "attitudes, values, and beliefs demonstrated through both verbal and non-verbal behaviors as educators interact with students, families, colleagues, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tenure, Focus Groups, Job Skills
Kezar, Adrianna; Sam, Cecile – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2010
This monograph complements volume 36, issue number 4 of ASHE Higher Education Report: "Understanding the New Majority of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty," and focuses on theories applied to study non-tenure-track faculty and philosophical and practical tensions represented in the literature. The chapter "Theories Used to Study and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nontenured Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
Kezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2012
It is important to understand existing research on the connections between non-tenure-track faculty and student learning and to continue to research these issues. Although working conditions vary across the academy and even within a single institution, many faculty--particularly part-timers--are not permitted to contribute to curriculum planning…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Tenure, College Instruction
Nelson, Cary – Academe, 2008
There are two worlds that exist in the academe: a world where the tenure system remains strong and a world dominated by the absence of tenure. In this article, the author cites the differences between these two worlds. In a world where tenure remains strong, academic departments benefit from a stable, dedicated workforce composed of tenured and…
Descriptors: Tenure, College Faculty, Organizational Development, Nontenured Faculty
American Federation of Teachers (NJ), 2010
A combination of destructive trends in higher education--shrinking state budgets, stagnant student aid, the growth of corporate-style management, the overuse and exploitation of contingent faculty, increasing workloads and attacks on academic freedom--is weakening the educational integrity and professionalism of American colleges and universities.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Salaries, Labor Force, College Faculty
Friend, Jennifer I.; Gonzalez, Juan Carlos – Academe, 2009
New faculty members are traditionally indoctrinated into a system that demands that they write incessantly and successfully publish their manuscripts. Yet they typically are not offered help in navigating the publishing process. For junior faculty members who have little experience with scholarly writing beyond their doctoral dissertations, these…
Descriptors: Tenure, Doctoral Dissertations, Journal Articles, Writing for Publication
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
Gappa, Judith M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2008
The work of colleges and universities is carried out each day by committed, talented faculty members. The faculty's intellectual capital, taken collectively, is every institution's principal asset. Today, as higher-education institutions are faced with new challenges that only seem to grow more difficult the importance of all faculty members in…
Descriptors: Tenure, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Diversity (Faculty)