Explores how small countries are connected to the international research community. Examines contact between faculty members at Norwegian universities and their colleagues abroad. Reveals that international publishing is considerably lower by faculty in the social sciences and humanities, despite the fact that they have almost as many foreign…

Using Ernest Boyer's categories of scholarly activity, a framework for scholarly contribution was developed and is currently used at the DePaul University (Illinois) School for New Learning. The framework includes assumptions regarding scholarship, expectations for faculty scholarly activity, and definitions and criteria for four forms of…

Argues that the claim that the community college has a unique teaching mission has been used to exempt community college faculty from participation in scholarly discourse. Suggests encouraging community college faculty scholarship that meets the test of external scrutiny would offer faculty an appropriate voice in higher education. (Contains 28…

Describes the involvement of Middlesex Community College, Massachusetts, in the Carnegie Teaching Academy program. Faculty and staff at the college broadened their understanding of instructional pedagogy through greater appreciation of relevant connections between learning theory and classroom practice. Argues that faculty scholarship ultimately…

Criticizes the large amount of often irrelevant, poorly designed, and poorly written quantitative journalism research. Notes that journalism education and mass communication education research published in scholarly journals is largely ignored by professional journalists, who find more value in the qualitative research reported in the journalism…

A survey examined the professional affiliation (law school teacher vs. political science teacher) of individuals publishing articles on international law in law reviews, general political science journals, political science journals with an international focus, and international law journals to learn more about the distribution of international…

A study exploring the relationship between scholarly productivity, in terms of publication and citation rates, and institutional reputation among leading social work schools is reported. Records for 333 faculty from 13 schools were analyzed in relation to 7 hypotheses of publication/citation rate and institutional productivity; results are…

Describes the questions pertinent to the use of blind peer reviewers for refereed scholarly journals. Discusses the pros and cons of using peer reviewers. Outlines the findings of a research study to determine how authors perceived their relationship with peer reviewers, and the usefulness of peer reports. (HB)

Describes a pilot study examining the attitudes of presidents and chief academic officers at the 19 New Jersey community colleges toward faculty scholarship. Indicates that although 81% of respondents were willing to offer more incentives for scholarship, 87% were unwilling to reduce teaching loads and 77% were unwilling to require scholarship.…

New models of copyright ownership and management can be developed for electronic publishing of scholarly works and research results that will provide greater control to the faculty author, ease the distribution and permissions process for use of copyrighted works in teaching and research, and reduce the costs to universities. (Author/AEF)

Presents the results of a survey of university library directors and other academic administrators to determine attitudes toward networked electronic publishing of research articles; concludes that academic administrators do not consider the academic community well equipped for electronic publishing and would not give it high priority in the…

Four special education assessment journals ("Psychology in the Schools,""Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment,""School Psychology Review," and "Diagnostique") were examined for institutional affiliations of authors. Two separate rankings of publishing productivity of faculties of college of education were produced; both systems identified…

This study examined the relationship between tenure and turnover rates for librarians in academic libraries. Survey forms were sent to 124 college and university library directors. The authors found no significant correlation between the two. However, there does seem to be a relationship between scholarly publishing requirements and turnover…

Examines the nature and extent of job-related stress among collegiate business- and professional-writing faculty. Finds that job-related stress is associated with faculty members' rank, type of institution, and sex. (KEH)

Reports results of a study that investigated trends in research productivity, as measured by publication rate, among 411 senior faculty at Syracuse University. Highlights include academic rank, pre- and posttenure productivity, academic discipline, sex, productivity over time, and problems with citation analysis as a measure of quality over time.…