A 117-item questionnaire, entitled WHAT COLLEGE STUDENTS THINK, was developed and administered to a sample of 1315 women in two Catholic liberal arts colleges as part of a study designed to identify common patterns of religious, moral, and intellectual-aesthetic student values. Related purposes of the study were to determine whether the value…

The end of faculty growth in higher education has led to near panic predictions of aging, highly tenured, more costly, steady-state faculties as the "growth bulge" hired in the 1960's age. This study discusses two models for simulating the behavior over time of indices of faculty health such as average age and salary, annual new hires,…

Empire State College (ESC), a statewide college without a campus, requires Nontraditional concepts of faculty, since their role as mentor in a contractual learning situation is more diverse than that of a traditional faculty member. The ESC mentor role involves several activities: advisement, intellectual development, evaluation, college…

This collective bargaining agreement between Wayne State University and the Wayne State Chapter of the American Association of University Professors covers the period from July 1, 1974 to June 30, 1976. Some issues discussed are: wages, hours, and other conditions of employment for the employees at Wayne State University. (Author/KE)

This 220-item bibliography is the first in a series of reports summarizing research in the evaluation of instruction by students in postsecondary institutions. Articles published since January 1968 and collected by this author before May 1974 furnish the contents. Only research on student ratings of instruction in a postsecondary setting and…

This study investigated student points of view in their ratings of specific courses and instructors by analyzing student responses within each of three classes separately, and then sought to generalize the results further by additional analyses, with 300 students randomly selected from 402 classes in five colleges. Different points of view were…

Pressure upon institutions of higher education to attract more students and to cut back on the number of courses offered has increased in recent years. A part of the problem is to determine which courses should continue to be offered and to better fit student interests to the course available. One solution to this problem, is the offering of…

This study defines key elements of the instructional environment at Memphis State University perceives and analyzes student and faculty assessments of this environment, and determines the extent of significant patterns of similarity or dissimilarity in the views expressed. Data were collected by a review of related research literature and…

This pamphlet presents two articles on student evaluation of instruction. The first article, "Research on Student Ratings of Teaching" by W. J. McKeachie, deals primarily with the reactions to his article in a recent AAUP Bulletin where he argued that systematic methods of collecting student evaluation of instruction should be used by faculty…

The chapters in this book are: (1) Characterizing the College, describing its historical image and its present condition; (2) Institutional Research, on the institutional constraints on research, a few studies, and the limitations in study design; (3) Characterizing the Faculty, examining their perceptions, values, interests, and attitudes; (4)…

The costs incurred at Antelope Valley Community College (California) in evaluating the performance of college faculty members for the 1972-73 school year are summarized. Evaluation fell into two phases--implementation and operation. Implementation involved the issuance of written procedures, necessary forms, the purchase of equipment and supplies,…

This report discusses criticism of academic tenure and examines the literature that supports or refutes these criticisms. The author finds current tenure practices result in a collective faculty that will age over time and that the percentage of tenured faculty will increase markedly. But he also concludes that studies of faculty adaptability and…

This is a study of the faculty of a small college under conditions of planned change. It attempts to establish the role of the faculty in initiating changes in an assessment of an hypothesis regrading the conservative role of such bodies. Following some developments in organizational theory regarding processes of organization, faculty…

This paper is an extended example of transactional evaluation; extended to show not only that the narrow purpose of a particular evaluation can be a means to further ends, but also to document the developmental character of process in a dynamic setting. The primary purpose of the study was to determine what preceptors or advisory teachers…

Officials at a number of higher education institutions have shown that considerable discrepancies exist in faculty salaries, corresponding to sex differences. To date, there has been no satisfactory way to examine the relationship between faculty accomplishments and rewards in the merit system. This study was undertaken to assess the nature of…