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Robert Christopher Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research on liberal arts colleges (LACs) has yet to consider possible effects of using Non-Tenure Track Faculty (NTTF) on the character of LACs. LACs are characterized by their strong academic ethos, collegial faculty-student relationships, all at a sanctuary-like setting. Tenure Track Faculty (TTF) and administrators at three LACs were…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Administrator Attitudes
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Cate, Leandra; Ward, LaWanda W. M.; Ford, Karly S. – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
The tenure evaluation process is characterized by a lack of clarity and governed by unspoken rules. At the same time, while institutions have increased the presence of racially minoritized people among the ranks of faculty over the last 30 years, this growth in numbers has been concentrated among non-tenure track and pre-tenure levels. This study…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, Tenure, College Faculty, Teacher Evaluation
Frederick Tucker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Institutional reliance on tenure-line faculty reached a historic low after the Great Recession in 2009, remaining at approximately a third of all faculty through 2022. Postsecondary institutions have steadily increased their reliance on full-time adjunct faculty over the last two decades. Part-time adjuncts, meanwhile, were hired in great numbers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
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Lee, Soo Jeung – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
This study analyses academics' commitment and job satisfaction according to full-time non-tenure-track (FTNT) and full-time tenure-track (FTT) in South Korea's changing academic environment. Data were collected from the 2018 Academic Profession in the Knowledge-Based Society Survey. One-way analyses of variance show no statistically significant…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Job Satisfaction, Nontenured Faculty, Tenure
Michele Darchuck – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The percentage of female faculty members who have achieved tenure is disproportionately represented against their male peers. Even more so, female faculty members who are also mothers, or mother-scholars, represent less than half of tenured female faculty. Current research posits that a lack of female faculty in higher education translates to a…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Disproportionate Representation, Occupational Aspiration, Nontenured Faculty
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Jenny Bourne; Nathan D. Grawe; Michael Hemesath; Maya Jensen – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
The authors of this article introduce a database of scholarship among liberal arts college (LAC) economists. Capturing publications across the life cycle, the data speak to questions unexplored in existing work and point to answers often contrary to popular wisdom. First, limited evidence of a rising tenure bar is found. Moreover, while some claim…
Descriptors: Economics, Professional Occupations, College Faculty, Liberal Arts
Brett Cetron – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Current literature shows a trend away from hiring faculty on a tenure line and instead hiring full-time non-tenure track faculty. Full-time non-tenure track faculty are becoming the majority base of the full-time faculty. It is unclear how this new majority of full-time non-tenure track faculty perceive shared governance at their respective…
Descriptors: Tenure, Nontenured Faculty, College Faculty, Governance
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Taoli Wang; Lingyun Yu; Wenjing Wang; Kun Dai – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The employee-organisation relationship between academics and universities is a critical issue in higher education (HE) human resource management. Previous studies have mainly investigated the segmentation between full-time and part-time academics, or academics working in different countries. However, few studies have explored academics'…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Nontenured Faculty, Tenure
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Berlin, Kathryn; Brock, DoMonique – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
The following exploration examined the impact of working conditions on faculty teaching for full-time faculty and non-tenure track faculty within an academic department at a large Midwestern university to determine whether employment status and working conditions potentially impacted student learning outcomes. Questions asked of participating…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, College Faculty, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty
Rachel Verburg Smydra – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative ethnographic single case-study was conducted to investigate what influences pre- and post-tenured humanities faculty course design, the effects of those influences, and their perceptions about career readiness. This study focused on a career readiness initiative at Mid-western Michigan University (MMU), which was built around the…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Humanities, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
Harold Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite efforts to attract Black women in the professoriate, higher education has historically excluded marginalized populations, specifically Black women. This qualitative case study investigated the problem of insufficient representation of tenured Black women in the academy at Historically White Colleges and Universities (HWCUs). Additionally,…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Minority Group Teachers, Females, Higher Education
Cory Kieschnick – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quantitative study sought to identify faculty perceptions about job satisfaction at one small, private university in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and the connection to intent to stay at the same institution. This study was a conceptual replication study, patterned off Rhone's 2010 doctoral dissertation study, "Faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Teacher Attitudes
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Jennifer Schneider; Jacqueline Bichsel – College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, 2024
We use CUPA-HR data to analyze representation and pay equity for women and racial/ethnic minorities in higher education full-time faculty from 2016-17 to 2022-23, across tenure status, rank, discipline, and total operating expenses of institutions. Results indicate that, despite some growth in the representation of women and faculty of color in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Equity (Finance)
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Robertson, Douglas L. – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
This article introduces the Faculty Appointment Security Typology which combines the variables of Permanent Faculty (tenured, tenure-earning), Contingent Faculty (non-tenure), Full-Time, and Part-Time. The research question is, are female and minoritized faculty overrepresented in less secure faculty appointment types, and has the phenomenon…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty, Part Time Faculty
Dahlberg, Maria Lund; Alper, Joe – National Academies Press, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic upended nearly every aspect of academia, leading colleges and universities to reexamine how they instruct their students and how they reward their faculty. But the pandemic was not the only disruptive event that took place in 2020. Colleges and universities have been forced to address issues related to productivity, teaching,…
Descriptors: Faculty Promotion, Tenure, Workshops, COVID-19
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