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Chitpin, Stephanie – International Journal of Educational Management, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to utilize the Objective Knowledge Growth Framework (OKGF) to promote a better understanding of the evaluating tenure and promotion processes. Design/Methodology/Approach: A scenario is created to illustrate the concept of using OKGF. Findings: The framework aims to support decision makers in identifying the…
Descriptors: Tenure, Decision Making, Dismissal (Personnel), Guidelines
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Ramlo, Susan – Journal of Research in Education, 2017
Instructors in higher education are very familiar with the Likert scale Students' Evaluation of Teaching (SET) used to evaluate teaching. Researchers have raised concerns about biases affecting the results of SET surveys, as well as their validity and reliability and use in high-stakes decision making. Here, we demonstrate that Q methodology,…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Mathematics Teachers, Q Methodology, Mixed Methods Research
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Han, Yuzheng – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The construction of university teaching faculty directly affects and restricts the long-term development of universities. Since the reform and opening up, China's university teaching faculty construction has realized marvelous achievements. However, in comparison with the higher education in developed countries, in China the construction of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Faculty Development
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Cadez, Simon; Dimovski, Vlado; Zaman Groff, Maja – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
The workload of most academics involves two main activities: research and teaching. Despite the dual nature of the work, career advancement usually chiefly depends on research performance. Since academics are rational actors, warnings are beginning to emerge that current predominantly research-based performance evaluation systems may be…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, College Faculty, Educational Quality, Higher Education
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Lane, Michael R.; Lane, Peggy L.; Rich, John; Wheeling, Barbara – Journal of Case Studies in Accreditation and Assessment, 2015
For more than twenty years accrediting agencies have required assessment as part of their initial accreditation or reaffirmation processes. During that period of time thousands of institutions have successfully prepared plans to achieve or maintain their accreditation. Why then does a culture of assessment not exist? And why is assessment still an…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Institutional Evaluation, Business Administration Education, Outcome Measures
Basken, Paul – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
If cash-strapped universities want an easy way to save money, Lawrence B. Martin, a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has an idea. By tallying faculty output in areas such as publication rates in scientific journals, Mr. Martin has concluded that there could be as much as $1-billion to $2-billion in…
Descriptors: Productivity, College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Teaching Load
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Field, Laurie – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2015
Against a backdrop of new public management (NPM) thinking and managerialism generally applied to universities in a range of countries, this study examines one of its manifestations--performance management for academics. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 40 academics at an Australian university, this article identifies six stances regularly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, College Administration, Governance
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Walker, Loretta Niebur – Arts Education Policy Review, 2013
The recruitment and retention of the highest-quality artist educators in colleges and universities is a key element in supporting strong K-12 arts education programs. Artist educators must be expert in at least two disciplines: their art forms and education. However, the peer review processes commonly employed to recommend higher education faculty…
Descriptors: Art Teachers, Teacher Educators, Peer Evaluation, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Jingning, Zhang – International Journal of Educational Development, 2013
The purposes of this micro-level, detailed qualitative study of a university faculty in a large city in China are threefold: to identify the sources of institutional promotion criteria, to illustrate the experiences of frontline faculty members with these criteria and their perceptions of them, and to discuss the possible bearings of the findings…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Criteria, Foreign Countries
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Dennison, George M. – Innovative Higher Education, 2012
Recent discussions of practices in higher education have tended toward muck-raking and self-styled exposure of cynical self-indulgence by faculty and administrators at the expense of students and their families, as usually occurs during periods of economic duress, rather than toward analytical studies designed to foster understanding This article…
Descriptors: Faculty Workload, College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Student Costs
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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
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Gonzales, Leslie D. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2013
"Striving" is a concept that describes colleges and universities seeking to reposition themselves as more prestigious, often more research-focused institutions (O'Meara, 2007). The goal of this paper is to explore faculty members' views of a striving university context. My analysis revealed that faculty assigned both rewards…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Universities, Rewards
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Gonzales, Leslie D.; Rincones, Rodolfo – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2012
In response to the incessant calls for interdisciplinary scholarship, universities adopt initiatives and encourage faculty to collaborate across discipline lines. Yet, the literature shows that it is difficult to institutionalise such work as faculty members are heavily influenced by their discipline-bound training. When faculty do participate,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Interdisciplinary Approach, Scholarship, Higher Education
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Linda Dowling-Hetherington – International Journal of Educational Management, 2014
Purpose: The consequences of institutional change for faculty is an under-researched aspect of the higher education (HE) sector in Ireland. The purpose of this paper is to report on the changing demands of academic life in Ireland. Design/methodology/approach: A case study of the School of Business at the largest university in Ireland, University…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Business Schools, Educational Change
Sternberg, Robert J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
Pogo recognized long ago that we often are our own worst enemies. Sure, he was a cartoon character, but he had a point--especially in higher education, where self-sabotage seems to be a standard characteristic of academic careers. In the author's 30 years as a professor, five years as a dean, and three years as a provost, he has observed many…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Self Destructive Behavior, Career Development, Mentors
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