This paper argues that the smaller teaching colleges or universities have, out of necessity, become models of maximum faculty productivity within a context of diminishing financial resources. Specifically, the paper responds to the question: How can faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions teach twelve or more hours a week and publish?…

The community college's mission as a teaching institution rather than a research institution has typically avoided placing scholarship in a central position. In 1988, the Commission on the Future of Community Colleges advocated a broad definition of scholarship encompassing the integration, application, and presentation of knowledge in the core…

The de facto signature style of the Modern Language Association's "PMLA" magazine not only bores many readers (contributing to the decline in MLA membership), but mandates rejection of any papers stylistically distinct from previous "PMLA" articles. In addition, to judge from several rejection letters, "PMLA" subject…

This critical review of the speeches, journal articles, and books written by community college presidents examines themes, styles, and information sources, and attempts to define standards by which the presidents' writings could be judged. The first section indicates that community college presidents are as prolific as any other group of two-year…

Traditional conceptions of academic freedom in higher education are based on the 1940 statement of the American Association of University Professors. Sanctions were most typically administered hierarchically: administrators, perhaps pressured by forces outside the institution, punished offending faculty by denying or revoking tenure. Based on the…

Concern about the professional socialization of women in academic positions has increased markedly in recent years. This study examined women's participation in behavioral journals and journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA) in terms of journal authorship and the composition of journal editorial boards. Behavioral…

A study investigated why productive scholars do research and what factors they believe contribute most to their success as published researchers. Subjects, 39 mass communications researchers who had been identified by a previous study as being the top producers of mass communications research articles, completed a questionnaire employing a…

Describes higher education's neglect in dealing with contextually relevant issues in its research about Indian education, such as Indian/White relations. (13 references) (YKH)

Assessed six library and information education programs in preparing manpower for the digital environment in three countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman. Highlights include curriculum changes; student-teacher ratio; technological, physical and instructional resources; hardware; software; vendors;…

A review of various models of the relationship between research and teaching in universities is presented, and the evidence necessary to assess each model is outlined. A meta analysis of 59 studies demonstrates that the relationship is zero. Suggestions are provided for future directions. (Author/SLD)

Presents and discusses a model policy regarding faculty publishing in scientific and technical journals that was developed by the Triangle Research Library Network (North Carolina). Highlights include the current scholarly communication system, including incompatibility between the goals of academic researchers and the goals of publishers;…

Explores the use of citation data in evaluating research performance of academic programs and individual faculty members based on a 10-year analysis of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. The use of three methods conjointly for allocating citational credit to multiauthored works is discussed. (Contains 35…

Reports on a study of the contributors to the "American Economic Review" during the journal's first 80 years of publication. Finds that, of nearly 3,000 authors during this period, only 28% have appeared in the publication more than once. Provides tables of most frequent contributing authors and most frequent contributing universities.…

A survey of 530 male and 137 female graduates of Jefferson Medical College (Pennsylvania) found numerous gender differences in their assessments of selected areas of the medical school curriculum, issues of medical practice and professional life, and specialty choices, professional activities, and research productivity. (Author/MSE)

A study of faculty published research output in Australia's university system in 1991 resulted in national benchmarks of faculty publications productivity (number of publications per 10 equivalent academic staff members), for each of 13 publication types, for the highest performing institution, and the highest performing units within any…