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Sylk Sotto-Santiago – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
The promotion and tenure process is complicated and fraught with complicated criteria and guidance, secrecy in evaluations, and at times questionable outcomes. Moreover, higher education is experiencing a reduction and elimination of tenure tracks. Faculty members have numerous competing demands and struggle to find time to organize daunting…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Career Development, Tenure, Evaluation Criteria
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Elina I. Mäkinen; Eliza D. Evans; Daniel A. McFarland – Journal of Higher Education, 2025
While interdisciplinarity has been promoted in universities for decades, research suggests that untenured faculty struggle to receive recognition for their interdisciplinary research. Informed by the microfoundations of institutional theory and discursive legitimation, we examine how members of academic departments participate in the legitimation…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Faculty Evaluation, Faculty Promotion
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Fritzsche, Sonja; Hart-Davidson, William; Long, Christopher P. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
Across higher education there is a misalignment between the policies and practices of evaluation and the core values for which universities profess to stand. Values of inclusion, transdisciplinarity, and publicly engaged scholarship are routinely undervalued in university practices of evaluation. Shifting attention toward high-impact ends of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Values, Educational Practices, College Faculty
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Silvernail, Kirk D.; Graso, Maja; Salvador, Rommel O.; Miller, Jane K. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
The present research considers the possibility that guidelines emphasizing academic freedom and faculty self-governance (i.e., those articulated by AAUP and UNESCO) might compete against national norms in shaping faculty fairness perceptions of institutional policies. We investigate the extent to which expectations of academic freedom and faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Governance, Academic Freedom, Teacher Attitudes
Stevie Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Currently, the available research on Native faculty experiences emphasizes the challenges and hardships of being an Indigenous faculty member. Native faculty members are often underrepresented and rarely appreciated for the cultural teachings and knowledge they contribute within settler-colonial institutions. Nonetheless, Native faculty continue…
Descriptors: College Faculty, American Indians, Indigenous Populations, Disproportionate Representation
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Obeng, Kofi; Ugboro, Isaiah O. – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2019
This study investigated the relationships between perceptions of academic tenure, post-tenure review policies, and three dimensions of organisational commitment (affective, continuance, and normative) in university academic staff. We surveyed a sample of 150 academic staff from 74 universities in the USA that have implemented post-tenure review…
Descriptors: Tenure, College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Academic Freedom
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Gourley, Patrick; Madonia, Greg – Education Economics, 2021
The conferment of tenure at a United States university provides substantial job security to its recipients. Tenure is designed to allow a professor the ability to explore new and risky research questions without fear of losing their position due to lack of publications. At the same time, this policy creates an incentive system with an ambiguous…
Descriptors: Tenure, Job Security, College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation
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Dahlberg, Maria Lund; Beninson, Lida – National Academies Press, 2020
Faculty in science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM) are expected to excel in their technical work, teaching, and professional service. Their career advancement is often determined by academic peers evaluating accomplishments in these three areas. Recently, however, there is a growing concern that the evaluation of those…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Faculty, Faculty Promotion, Academic Rank (Professional)
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Lu, Xintong – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
This study draws upon motivation theories and identifies the motivations of Chinese scholars with regard to publishing articles in international journals and how their motivations influence the research output of Chinese universities. Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with academics currently working in two Chinese universities, the findings,…
Descriptors: Asians, Periodicals, Journal Articles, Faculty Publishing
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Sdvizhkov, Helen; Van Zanen, Kathryn; Aravamudan, Neeraja; Aurbach, Elyse L. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2022
Scholarship addressing public and community engagement in tenure and promotion often invokes Ernest Boyer's landmark 1990 report, "Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate," and goes on to lament the lack of progress made in the three decades that have followed. This review intervenes: We synthesize extant scholarship on…
Descriptors: Tenure, Higher Education, Community Involvement, Reports
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Dickson, Kevin; Johnston, Nick; McMillan, Heather; Schwieger, Dana; Stovall, Steven – Information Systems Education Journal, 2021
The evolving landscape of higher education has forced many institutions to reorganize, remove administrative layers, and subsequently, reexamine criteria and processes. In particular, efforts to consolidate and combine departments has prompted a need to explore options for a systematic and objective framework for evaluating performance. This paper…
Descriptors: Tenure, Faculty Promotion, Higher Education, College Faculty
Okech, Jane E. Atieno, Ed.; Rubel, Deborah J., Ed. – American Counseling Association, 2019
This distinctive text provides master's- and doctoral-level students, as well as new professionals, with a thorough exploration of the range of responsibilities, working conditions, roles, evaluation criteria, benefits, and challenges experienced by counselor educators. Each chapter focuses on a key aspect of the field, including teaching;…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Counselor Educators, Instruction, Supervision
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Blankenship-Knox, Ann E.; Platt, R. Eric; Read, Hannah – Journal of Faculty Development, 2017
As part of the promotion and tenure process, colleges and universities have primarily evaluated faculty members on three key functional areas: research, teaching, and service. In this article, we examine how the use of collegiality as a possible fourth criterion for faculty evaluation affects faculty power dynamics, how U.S. courts have addressed…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Faculty Evaluation, Employment Practices, Tenure
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Mosier, Samantha L.; Opp, Susan M. – Teaching Public Administration, 2020
This article examines current and previous practitioner experiences of faculty in Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration accredited programs. Using original survey data, this study demonstrates that a majority of Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration program faculty members have prior or current…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Accreditation (Institutions), Public Policy, Public Administration Education
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Tanaomi, Mohammad Mehdi; Asaadi, Robert Reza – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This article examines the similarities and differences in the systems for faculty career advancement in higher education institutions in the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The analysis focuses on two specific cases: the University of Tehran and Portland State University. Through this paired comparison, we draw out the similarities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, College Faculty, Faculty Promotion
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