Classroom research projects are encouraged as a form of college faculty development. In these projects, participants examine and seek to improve selected aspects of their own teaching. Regular meetings of peers allow for discussion and transformation of perspective. Gathering interpretive data provides evidence to convince uncommitted departmental…

Discusses collaborative hypermedia development for academic publishing in light of the availability of tools for authoring and disseminating hypermedia documents through the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, and other electronic formats. Topics include defining pedagogical objectives; role definitions of authors, editors, publishers, and software…

Discussion of the evaluation and ranking of degree programs of library and information science at ALA (American Library Association) accredited schools focuses on a study of faculty authorship in "Library Literature" as a measure of productivity. Doctoral programs, Association of Research Libraries affiliation, and Carnegie I research…

Argues that successful recruitment of strong faculty depends on viewing information science as an academic program serving a variety of professional fields and valuing research as the equivalent of teaching. The implementation of these views within the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, at Rutgers University is described.…

Asserts that subscription price increases for academic journals have been the area of single greatest concern to librarians during the past decade. Finds that systematic variations in library prices across economics journals offer explainable reasons. (CFR)

Four studies of social work faculty publishing are reported, all using citation analysis. They examine national, local, and personal norms of citations as objective indicators of reputation, for full, associate, and assistant professors of social work, at graduate and undergraduate levels. (MSE)

Syracuse University (New York) is working to change the publish-or-perish ethos in higher education through better organized courses, more vigorous teaching evaluation policies, and merit raises and grants for strong teachers. More ambitious changes may follow. The modest plan has become the most comprehensive such effort to date. (MSE)

A Norwegian study found a positive correlation between the number of graduate students that faculty (n=1,815) supervised and their own research productivity. Differences were found across disciplines. The effect of integration of students' research into faculty research was also examined. (MSE)

Describes a study in progress that examines electronic journals within the context of the formal scholarly communication process and attempts to determine whether publication in electronic journals brings the expected rewards of research publication. The criteria for acceptable scholarly communication channels and the study's methodology and…

A study of constraints on university faculty productivity in the United States suggests that universities cannot expect major productivity gains without redefining faculty roles in research or teaching. Some economies of scale were found, but they do not necessarily represent increases in value of faculty efforts. (MSE)

A survey of 501 faculty members in doctorate-granting special education programs resulted in a ranking of the top 10 programs. Seventy-three percent of the variance in program reputation could be explained by four variables: faculty publication, time spent in research and writing, time spent in outside professional activity, and number of degrees…

A portfolio model, using student evaluations and faculty publishing records, designed for classifying faculty at Ball State University (Indiana) is described, policy alternatives arising from the new method are examined, and a more general portfolio model using a variety of measures of teaching effectiveness and research activities is suggested.…

Examines perceptions of librarian and teaching faculty in universities to see if administrator acceptance of their Web projects is on the rise. Findings indicate respondents generally are satisfied with the recognition granted to their Web projects, and institutional factors largely influence satisfaction levels. Faculty can improve acceptance of…

The 21 essays in this collection resulted from a conference on needed changes to the faculty reward system and present a broader view of what should be honored as legitimate scholarly work and the role of publication. Papers are grouped in four sections on: (1) postmodern conceptions of scholarship; (2) scholarship in the late age of print; (3)…

This paper reports on individual, semistructured interviews with 10 women academics in the field of higher education, who volunteered information about the contributions of spouse or partner on factors associated with scholarly publishing productivity. After a brief review of the literature related to the relationships between marriage,…