Analyzes interview data from 24 higher education faculty from 19 universities to assess the extent to which the cumulative advantage perspective was consistent with experiences they described as significant to their publishing productivity. Two factors voiced by a majority of participants relatively late commitment to an academic career and the…

Examines the practice of scholarship in American universities and lists three episodes in a scholar's career in which scholarship is paramount: (l) the dissertation process; (2) the candidacy for tenure; and (3) the yearly recommendations for salary increases. Recommendations include encouraging scholarship in all its forms, and reconsidering the…

A study of 2,910 sociologists who received doctorates in 1972-76 found that gender differences in scholarship productivity occurred within the first 6 years of the doctorate and continued throughout the career due to different employment patterns and publication trajectories. The results support Merton's contention that context structures the…

Journal articles published by faculty in Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) programs from 1998 to 2002 were analyzed to determine patterns regarding the amount and type of research conducted by this group. Fifty-eight percent of the articles were identified as research. Slightly more than 10% of these…

The ability to access a foreign language can be an issue for academics trying to publish in international journals. The barriers that non-(limited)English-speaking academics in poor countries have in accessing the academic literature pose an issue of disadvantage in a world where the current trend is to publish research work mostly in English.…

The OATYC Journal provides the two-year colleges of Ohio with a medium for discussing problems and sharing concepts, methods, and findings relevant to the two-year college classroom. The fall 1992 and spring 1993 issues contain: "What We Are Doing Right: Can We Do It All?," by Linda Houston; "Campus Profile: A Walk through Shawnee…

The community college movement has been well-documented since the organization of the first junior colleges. This documentation has been maintained by six groups: scholars and professors, the popular media, institutional research, state agencies, faculty organizations, and national organizations. Currently, approximately 100 scholars and…

The OATYC Journal is published by the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges to provide the two-year colleges of Ohio with a medium for sharing concepts, methods and findings relevant to the two-year college classroom and to provide an open forum for problem discussion and review. The fall 1989 and spring 1990 issues of the journal contain:…

This study replicated previous research that tested the validity of A. Biglan's classification scheme, a theoretical framework for empirically examining the differences among academic disciplines and classifying them according to three dimensions (hard-soft, pure-applied, life-nonlife). In addition, new data were used to attempt continued…

The study reported in this paper sought to clarify the nature and form of faculty scholarship by identifying its dimensions and components from the pont of view of faculty at a large public doctoral granting institution. A survey instrument was developed listing 249 attributes of faculty scholarship, and 340 faculty members (66% of the total…

A survey was sent to 150 individuals (110 responded) employed as assistant or probationary librarians, or as assistant (tenure-tracked) professors with the departments of behavior or social sciences at the three Arizona universities: University of Arizona, Tucson; Arizona State University, Tempe; and Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. The…

The amount of research and publication completed by male and female faculty was compared over 3 years with a sample of 56 male and 40 female physical education faculty in the Big Ten Universities. Male faculty members published significantly more articles in unreferred journals, received significantly more reductions in teaching loads to do…

To determine the relationship between scholarly publication of faculty teaching in American Library Association accredited programs of library and information science and selected individual-level and institutional-level variables, a stratified proportional random sample was taken of 182 faculty members listed in the 1984 "Association for…

Peer reviewed manuscripts contain a certain level of merit, as they have survived the scrutiny of reviewers who possess some expertise in the relevant area. This article discusses the purpose of reviewing manuscripts for publication in scholarly journals. Various aspects and issues of the peer review process are described, including reviewer…

The state of the humanities in the college and university curriculum and community, as expressed through the medium of television, and in the "parallel school" (museums, libraries, educational broadcasting, state humanities councils, and historical organizations) is discussed and recommendations are made. (MSE)