This study examined the allocation of time college faculty give to various research tasks. Case studies were conducted of 12 faculty members in four departments selected for variation by university type (research and comprehensive) and discipline (Physics and English). The work of each faculty member was observed on five non-consecutive days for a…

This paper identifies and discusses salient historical events and trends that have led to the increased importance of scholarly faculty research and the concomitant decline in importance given to undergraduate teaching in many institutions of higher education in the United States. Following the English model, early colleges in the seventeenth and…

In 1991, a study was conducted to determine what community college presidents have done to promote and reward faculty scholarship. The 117 presidents surveyed were asked to respond to questions concerning faculty activities that demonstrate their involvement in scholarly activities; whether and in what ways the presidents encouraged, recognized,…

In partial response to a recent best-seller decrying the so-called "ProfScam" scenario whereby professors downgrade undergraduate teaching in favor of often irrelevant research, the paper offers guidance to accounting faculty seeking to undertake meaningful publishable research. Recommendations are given for four stages in the research process:…

A theoretical model of publication productivity was studied to see if it was applicable to professors in various types of institutions. The impact of several correlates of publications within doctoral universities and comprehensive colleges and universities were evaluated, thus addressing several questions about the extent to which organizational…

A study tested a model of college faculty socialization. Using a critical-career-events framework, the model shows how the experiencing of critical career events affects individuals' judgments of their self-efficacy, which in turn affects their scholarly productivity. Seven critical-career-event categories (early career focus, mentoring, honors…

To identify the procedures for selecting documents for inclusion in the Resources in Education (RIE) portion of the ERIC database, the directors of each of the ERIC system's 16 clearinghouses were contacted and asked the following questions: What is the acceptance rate of unsolicited manuscripts submitted to your clearinghouse for possible…

"Rhetoric Review" ("RR") was founded in 1982 as an umbrella journal in composition studies with rhetoric, the most inclusive discipline in the humanities, at its center. Being editor of such a journal requires a working knowledge of production, layout, and design, besides handling other routine duties like correspondence and…

University presses serve a prominent gatekeeping role in scholarly publishing because they, unlike commercial presses, can select books which transmit knowledge without being wholly captive to the marketplace. To analyze the cyclical flow that continually advances intellectual life, this selection procedure was examined with a study of the…

In a response to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English, argues that English departments should not become service departments for other academic departments. Urges the replacement of adjunct faculty members with tenure-earning assistant professor lines and claims that recognition through publication serves the…

Data on publication rates were gathered for two years from the Corporate Indexes published by the Institute for Scientific Information, and numbers of faculty by academic discipline were computed using standard reports generated annually by the participating universities. These rates can provide one measure of relative university research…

This document addresses the fact that community colleges have received little attention in research literature. The biggest gap in research is about community college instructors who teach the most and least prepared students through honors and developmental courses. Data was gathered from a national survey the professional practices and attitudes…

The purpose of this study is to consider the literature that looks at the implications of information technology for scholarly journals which have historically been a linchpin of communication among scholars in which research results are released, discussed, vetted, and disseminated among faculty, students, and scholars. With the expansion of the…

This paper reports the results of a study that used Confirmatory Factor Analysis techniques to analyze data collected using the "Faculty at Work" (Robert T. Blackburn and Janet H. Lawrence) survey instrument in an effort to untangle effects and confirm the factor composition of theoretical constructs used as the basis for this…

The professional productivity of 145 secondary teachers educators from Rajasthan (India) was measured. Productivity measures included books, research papers, articles, independent research projects, professional reading, leisure activities, and participation in seminars, workshops, and trainings. Results found limited levels of professional…