How do part-time faculty members in community colleges view their roles? Data from part-time faculty responses regarding their experiences in higher education vary. Valadez and Antony (2001) analyzed data from 6,811 part-time faculty collected from the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) 1992-1993 National Survey of Postsecondary…

"Making the Move to eLearning" proposes a radical truth--that online education, when taught using the methodology perfected by successful veterans of distance learning--surpasses traditional face-to-face teaching and learning. The key is for online educators to learn just what those successful methods are and how to emulate them in their…

Of all full-time faculty members in the United States, approximately 75% are White males, and the gap in the percentage of tenured men compared with the percentage of tenured women has not changed in 30 years (Trower & Chait, 2002). A number of studies have been conducted over the past 5 decades examining the factors influencing the recruitment…

The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) collects institution-level data from postsecondary institutions in the United States (50 states and the District of Columbia) and other jurisdictions, such as Puerto Rico. This report presents information from the Winter 2007-2008 IPEDS web-based data collection. A postsecondary…

This "First Look" presents findings from the Human Resources (HR) Component of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) winter 2009-10 data collection. The HR component consists of the following three sections: Employees by Assigned Position (EAP) and Fall Staff (S) for fall 2009 and Salaries (SA) for academic year…

Teacher salaries are the single most costly item in every state's education budget. This report provides both a historical overview and recent statistics on trends in teacher salaries. The report describes the status of teacher salaries in the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states, defines "average" teacher salary, and…

THIS STUDY OF THE PROFESSIONAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL STATUS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS IN 23 COUNTRIES IN THE AMERICAS INCLUDES DATA ON TRAINED AND UNTRAINED TEACHERS AND ON THE PRESENCE, IF ANY, OF PROFESSIONAL TEACHER TRAINING SCHOOLS. THE ECONOMIC SECTION DEALS WITH TEACHERS' SALARIES IN RELATION TO SALARIES FOR OTHER OCCUPATIONS. THE SOCIAL…

Teacher conduct is a loaded concept. Teachers in New Jersey are cautioned to study their life styles and the existing teacher conduct regulations to avoid conflict and possible loss of jobs. (DS)

Local school districts differ in their ability to pay for teacher quality, and in the amenities they offer as places to live and work. Market clearing with heterogeneous quality yields geographically varying teacher salary levels that confound scarcity with unobserved differences in quality. The paper discusses identification and estimation of a…

The Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) is sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education and is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. TFS is a follow-up survey of selected elementary and secondary school teachers who participated in the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). SASS is the…

This report presents facts and figures on British Columbia's education for 2012. It is divided into the following seven sections: (1) Schools, which covers: (a) Number of public schools; (b) Number of independent (private) schools; (c) School closures; (d) Rural schools and students; (e) School-district amalgamation; and (f) School safety: Seismic…

Pensions are an important but comparatively unexamined component of human resource policies in education. In an increasingly competitive world where employees are more mobile than ever, pension policies that were designed in the last century may be out of step with the needs of both individuals and schools. This background paper aims to foster…

Over the last sixteen years, part-time teachers have become the coolies, or the burden bearers of the academic community. Used mostly to teach lower-level basic classes, they have increased in number from 36,420 in l968 to 330,000 in l985. Research about part timers began in the late l970s with Howard Tuckman, who tried to find systematic and…

TO IDENTIFY THE AMOUNTS OF TIME WHICH TEACHERS GIVE TO THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL AND NONINSTRUCTIONAL DUTIES, A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS SENT TO A RANDOM SAMPLE OF 3,594 CLASSROOM TEACHERS, OF WHOM 1,725 RETURNED USABLE REPLIES. MOST SPENT ABOUT 8 TO 9 HOURS A DAY (INCLUDING 2 TO 3 HOURS OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL DAY) ON TEACHING, PREPARATION FOR TEACHING, AND…

A grade school teacher objects to the fact that school boards require an intimate personal history of a teacher before considering her for employment, but do not in turn allow her to choose her own school. (CK)