The majority of artists cannot support themselves on their earnings from their creations. Most resort to other types of employment, which range from teaching to truck driving, to meet their financial needs. (CK)

This article examines the job attitudes of people who hold more than one job. Satisfaction, stress, and organizational (continuance and affective) commitment were assessed for both primary and secondary jobs for 83 full-time workers who held two jobs concurrently. Consistency between job constructs across jobs was negligible, except for…

A study examined the characteristics of moonlighters and the length of their moonlighting episodes to determine who moonlights and why. Data for 203 prime-aged men were drawn from the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation panel (SIPP). The methodology involved a study of the personal and job-related characteristics of moonlighters and…

Although consulting has long been recognized as a legitimate faculty role in most colleges, concern has arisen about the appropriateness of "double dipping," and particularly whether consulting and other supplemental income activities result in shirking other university responsibilities. The debate centers on six basic issues: who…

Aspects of part-time teaching addressed in this report, based on a survey of college faculty, include: the "flexibility seeker," the "work seeker," disadvantages of part-time employment, a taxonomy of part time, personal characteristics of part-timers, the part-timer's workplace, and the work history of part-timers. (LBH)

Many institutions are reviewing their consulting policy statements to determine their adequacy in light of pressures to more closely monitor outside work by their faculty. Confusion and confrontation over "control" of noninstitutional work for compensation is present. (Author/MLW)

Two African American women college teachers who have achieved success in consulting and entrepreneurship are offered as illustrations of a growing trend among faculty. Faculty with technical knowledge find satisfaction in the appreciation of their skills outside the classroom, and are commonly employed part-time or for a short term or have their…

The interaction of Harvard University scholars with outside institutions is examined, as is the need for the university to monitor and regulate these outside activities. Harvard scholars were found to maintain 38 directorships with Fortune 500 companies, 60 ties to the biotechnology industry, over 500 contacts between faculty at the Business…

The increasingly complex environment in which colleges and universities now operate has spawned a set of requirements for accountability with which institutions and therefore faculty must comply. Although academic freedom and tenure provide important protections for faculty, they are not unlimited. At the same time, institutions face a myriad of…

This report presents a brief overview of the literature on teacher moonlighting and a description of a survey of physical education teachers in New York State who moonlight. A presentation of the findings includes a profile of the moonlighting physical education teacher who is typically male, married with dependents, and teaching at the secondary…

A report is given on the third in a series of biannual surveys of Texas public school teachers. A comparison is made between findings in 1984 and data collected in 1980 and 1982 from a sample of 500 teachers. Findings indicate that more than a fourth of Texas teachers moonlight during the academic year. Nearly 40 percent of the respondents were…

Investigates causes and consequences of teacher moonlighting, using a mid-1980s nationwide survey of U.S. teachers. Estimates a model of teacher time allocation using maximum likelihood methods. Results show that moonlighting is highly insensitive to teacher pay levels. Moonlighting teachers do not appear to shortchange students when preparing…

A work preference model of artists' labor supply was applied to data on Australian artists. Results show that artists subsidize their profession by working outside the arts; the higher their nonarts income, the more they subsidize arts work. Artists reduce hours worked in their principal artistic occupation when they receive a higher arts income.…

"Service Plus" was designed as a pilot program to employ teachers in Bedford County, Tennessee over the summer to supplement their income and to develop services the community needed. Operating every summer since 1984, the program has provided employment to teachers in positions in the local human services, parks and recreation, juvenile…

Findings are presented from a May 1969 survey on the growing number of "moonlighters" in the work force: (1) one in twenty workers held more than one job during the survey week; (2) three of every ten multiple jobholders were women, nearly double the proportion of 1969; (3) the number of men with multiple jobs remained about the same; (4) the…