Salary equity issues in higher education are examined with reference to sex discrimination in faculty salaries, the law and its application, judicial deference toward higher education, and the nature of salary equity evidence. The basis for most salary equity studies has been the simple observation that salaries of male professors are generally…

Part-time faculty are essential to the accomplishment of the mission of postsecondary occupational education institutions. A commitment to excellence requires a comprehensive, systematic design for part-time faculty recruitment, development, assessment, and integration into the institution's delivery system. Careful attention to recruitment…

A two-year study was conducted at Ohio Wesleyan University to analyze the faculty rewards structure as it relates to teaching; develop better diagnostic procedures for improving teaching; better coordinate teaching support services; and analyze student and faculty perceptions of effective teaching and learning. During the first study year, faculty…

A survey of all 1,000 Kansas State University faculty was conducted in August 1975 by the KSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Results from the 459 usable returns are detailed in statistical and narrative form. Ninety percent of the faculty indicated high degrees of liking their positions. Although a number of areas…

Faculty and staff development in higher education is examined from the viewpoint of two surveys on the training of university and polytechnic teachers in Great Britain. The study had two purposes: to investigate whatever policies have emerged from recent efforts at staff development, and to enable other policymakers and program planners to benefit…

Curricular and instructional issues are discussed in 12 articles by faculty of the Connecticut community colleges. Jack McLean examines the potential role of community colleges in international education, and Kerin Sarason proposes teacher self-evaluations to reduce faculty/administrator tension. Jean Burr Smith introduces methods of reducing math…

An ERIC search was conducted to determine what studies have been completed comparing the quality of part-time faculty with that of full-time teachers. The search found no comparative studies, but it did reveal that evaluations of part-time teachers are often subjective and provide inconclusive findings. Although some studies point to the higher…

The 1975 edition of the faculty handbook is divided into major sections covering administrative structure, faculty-administration relationships, faculty compensation and fringe benefits, faculty services, faculty-student responsibilities and relationships, and summer school employment. The university administration is described with regard to the…

This bibliography is arranged in the following major categories: (1) Faculty appointment, promotion, and tenure. This is further broken into the subcategories: general, clinician-educator track, Ph.D.s in clinical departments, faculty retirement, and deans. Where applicable, entries in each subcategory are further categorized as medical school or…

Educational Research Information Center (ERIC) Trends are analyses of higher education literature contained in the ERIC database, describing major concerns in institutional practice. There has been little real change in the literature on faculty in the last 5 years. Workload for faculty remains higher than many professions, and faculty often…

Asserts that standardized teacher evaluation forms belittle students by blending them into an anonymous mass and emphasize that writing is unimportant. Concludes that, rather than increasing students' influence, teacher evaluations enhance administrators' power and pose a danger to intellectual freedom. (CFR)

Teaching portfolios, now largely used for evaluation of college teaching, can also be viewed as a form of action research, opening their use to other purposes, including examination of institutional, faculty, and student needs and demands; the dynamics of race, gender, and sexuality in structuring classroom interactions; and the relationship of…

The author discusses factors considered on how to become a teacher educator. Most colleges and universities consider the academic alliance of teaching, scholarship, and service to be an interdependent trilogy. Some institutions place more weight on one area than another. In many universities, teaching is the area of emphasis although the other two…

How can higher education inspire and reinforce greater faculty involvement in the life of the "whole student" given current constraints on and expectations for faculty work? Research from two recent national surveys of chief academic officers on faculty work sheds light on this question by highlighting current faculty employment conditions and…

This book interprets the postwar rise of American elite universities to global research leadership, emphasizing the distinctive features of American higher education including: decentralized administration; a large and pluralistic market of public and private institutions; and intense competition for students, faculty, and research funding from…