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Barrett, Nathan; Strunk, Katharine O.; Lincove, Jane – Education Economics, 2021
Most teachers have tenure protections that constrain dismissal. Some argue that tenure improves recruitment and retention by mitigating the risk of monopsony employment and substituting job security for lower salaries. Others argue that tenure reduces performance incentives making it difficult to dismiss ineffective teachers. We examine…
Descriptors: Teacher Employment, Tenure, Teacher Retirement, Job Security
Smithers, Kathleen; Harris, Jess; Goff, Mhorag; Spina, Nerida; Bailey, Simon – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
Neoliberal reform of the university sector has resulted in increasing numbers of academics employed on casual or fixed-term contracts. While there is an emergent body of literature on issues of precarity in the academy, relatively little attention has been paid to the roles and responsibilities of those tenured academics who employ and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Tenure, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
Aldeman, Chad; Randazzo, Anthony – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
In "Are Texas Teacher Retirement Benefits Adequate?," authors Chad Aldeman and Anthony Randazzo analyze the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) of Texas and find it is not serving all of its members well. Most members will leave their teaching service in Texas with inadequate retirement benefits, and the unfunded liabilities the system has…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Teacher Employment Benefits, Tenure
Walsh, Katharine Phelps; Pottmeyer, Laura Ochs; Meizlish, Deborah; Hershock, Chad – To Improve the Academy, 2022
This study updates and expands upon past work on how tenure-track hiring committees evaluate teaching effectiveness to provide centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) current data as they support graduate students and postdocs navigating the academic hiring process. In this study, 166 hiring committee chairs from nine academic disciplines and a…
Descriptors: Resource Centers, Higher Education, College Faculty, Graduate Students
Hunter, Richard J., Jr.; Shannon, John H. – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2020
This article is a discussion of the role of the University Counsel (sometimes called the General Counsel) as "adviser, officer, administrator, and agent" in the university setting. The article discusses the nature of the "fiduciary duty" in university governance and describes several of the substantive areas of the law with…
Descriptors: Lawyers, Staff Role, School Personnel, Universities
Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
In response to financial pressures, the New York State Assembly has created new, less-generous retirement plans for teachers. Teachers and other education employees are enrolled in one of two plans, the Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) and the New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS). How far have the benefits…
Descriptors: Teacher Employment Benefits, Retirement Benefits, Money Management, Teacher Salaries
Schlieber, Marisa; Austin, Lea J. E.; López, Enrique Valencia – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2020
This report examines the demographic, educational, and employment characteristics (including compensation and benefits) of staff employed in center-based ECE [early care and education] programs throughout Marin County. The findings bring attention to the low wages and economic insecurity of the ECE workforce, particularly against a backdrop of one…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, County Programs, Child Care Centers, Early Childhood Teachers
Hutto, Pamela Noel – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Community colleges are under pressure to educate a growing student population while economic resources in higher education are diminishing. One measure of success for colleges is the ability to retain students. Due to the varied nature of the community college population, measuring student retention is challenging. One facet of student retention…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Academic Persistence, Teacher Employment, Correlation
Rowland, Julie – Education Commission of the States, 2015
Teaching quality is a crucial factor in student success, contributing to students' short- and long-term learning opportunities. High-quality teaching not only contributes to the improvement of student test scores and graduation rates but also gives students a "strong foundation from which to advance and achieve" in the future. Long term,…
Descriptors: Teacher Employment, Educational Policy, Personnel Policy, State Policy
Bérubé, Michael; Ruth, Jennifer – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
In this article, the authors discuss the aim of their book, "The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments" (2015). The authors provide an account of the dire employment conditions that have weakened North American universities as professional institutions of teaching and learning. They believe that…
Descriptors: Humanities, Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Universities
Johnson, Richard W.; Southgate, Benjamin G. – Urban Institute, 2014
The financial problems afflicting the Illinois teacher pension plan have grabbed headlines. An equally important problem, though underappreciated, is that relatively few teachers benefit much from the plan. This report evaluates the pension benefits provided to Illinois public school teachers. The researchers project annual and lifetime pension…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Public School Teachers, Teacher Salaries
Teacher Performance Plays Growing Role in Employment Decisions. Teacher Tenure: Trends in State Laws
Thomsen, Jennifer – Education Commission of the States, 2014
An increasing number of states are mandating teacher performance be considered in educator employment decisions, including awarding tenure and layoffs, according to a 50-state policy review of teacher tenure laws. Tenure laws have historically granted job protections based on years of employment. The Education Commission of the States (ECS)…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness, Personnel Management, Personnel Policy
Koedel, Cory; Podgursky, Michael; Shi, Shishan – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
Teacher pension systems concentrate retirements within a narrow range of the career cycle by penalizing individuals who separate too soon or remain employed too long. The penalties result in the retention of some teachers who would otherwise choose to leave, and the premature exit of some teachers who would otherwise choose to stay. We examine the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Compensation (Remuneration), Teacher Employment Benefits, Teacher Retirement
Luo, Zhongshu – Chinese Education and Society, 2014
The article analyzes the practice and experience of faculty management at the University of Pennsylvania and its implications for Chinese universities from the perspective of management systems and operation mechanisms. Recent reforms and innovation of faculty management at Sichuan University are described.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Administration, Personnel Management
Marianno, Bradley D. – Journal of School Choice, 2015
Between 2011 and 2013 lawmakers in every state proposed, and often enacted, laws intended to impact codified state provisions related to teachers and teachers' unions (author calculation). These new laws either worked against union interests (e.g., by prohibiting collective bargaining) or they aligned with union positions (e.g. by providing…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Teacher Associations, Unions, Teacher Rights