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Aesha Mustafa – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This critical qualitative research study examines how Black tenure-track faculty at predominantly White Research 1 (PWR1) institutions describe and enact their personal and professional commitments while navigating their institutions priorities and reward structure. Using a purposive and snowball sampling methodological approach, I interviewed 17…
Descriptors: College Faculty, African American Teachers, Tenure, Predominantly White Institutions
Albert Lee Byrom Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Public school campuses in rural South Texas are struggling to recruit and retain high-quality teachers. Districts now have flexibility in hiring certified teachers, but the need for teachers continues to grow annually. The challenge lies in attracting teachers to smaller school districts, when there are larger districts throughout the State of…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Public Schools
Dominique S. Austin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the troubling underrepresentation of staff of color in Pacific Northwest community colleges. Despite the proven benefits of racial staff diversity in promoting student success, community colleges face challenges in recruiting and retaining staff of color. Existing literature concerning non-teaching staff at community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Minority Group Teachers, Diversity (Faculty)
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Lane, Tonisha B.; Woods, Johnny C., Jr.; Johnson, Whitley M.; Johnson Austin, Saundra – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2023
Women of color (WOC) faculty are vastly underrepresented in STEM departments and continue to face daunting challenges that impact their recruitment, retention, and promotion. Research demonstrates that the underrepresentation of women of color STEM faculty is occasioned by numerous factors, including structural and systematic issues such as chilly…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Administration, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence
Maurice Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative study utilized one-on-one interviews to examine the lived experience of Black males who have successfully joined the teaching profession and moved into school administration. Their experiences shed light on factors that help attract African American males to the profession and continue to be educators. This study's research is…
Descriptors: African Americans, School Administration, African American Teachers, Administrators
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Saroja Warner – Region 2 Comprehensive Center, 2023
There is little doubt that increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the educator workforce is needed in Connecticut. Students of color represent 51.4% of the state's student body, yet only 1 in 10 teachers is an educator of color. Having a more diverse teaching corps matters. Teachers of color positively impact the academic achievement of…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Equal Education, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Recruitment
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Pulay, Alana; Tripp, Paula J. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2022
Family and consumer sciences (FCS) educators were surveyed in the state of Oklahoma to gather information regarding their satisfaction with the classroom interior environment to reveal whether classroom satisfaction is related to the educators' productivity levels. Past research suggests that teachers who are satisfied with their working…
Descriptors: Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Classroom Environment, Productivity
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Macfarlane, Bruce; Jefferson, Alison Elizabeth – Higher Education Quarterly, 2022
Academic inbreeding is a deeply ingrained practice which needs to be understood by reference to the medieval guilds. Drawing on the guild concept and associated benefits of forms of capital, a distinction is drawn between 'guild-route' academics who have followed a privileged, linear path into academe and their 'non-guild' counterparts who tend to…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, College Faculty, Alumni, Teacher Recruitment
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Horta, Hugo; Meoli, Michele; Santos, João M. – Higher Education Quarterly, 2022
Academic inbreeding is a phenomenon that has been studied mostly from the standpoint of its association with research productivity. The focus has been on knowledge creation outputs and outcomes, while little to no attention has been given to the association of academic inbreeding with knowledge creation strategies and processes in academia. This…
Descriptors: Alumni, Teacher Selection, Teacher Recruitment, Educational Research
Region 8 Comprehensive Center, 2022
What do strategic and collaborative partnerships look like? Hora and Millar (2011) defined three types of partnerships, which are defined in this brief: (1) limited; (2) coordinated; and (3) collaborative. Presented in this brief are the following: (1) Partnership scenarios; (2) Leveraging strategic institutional partnerships to diversify the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Cooperation
Wilson, Marisa Sierchio – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Science teacher shortages are reaching critical capacity across the United States and New Jersey. Emerging teacher identity research highlights the impacts that subject matter plays in the development and retention of today's teachers. Strong personal and professional connections to the content area of science directly impact a person's decision…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Professional Identity, Teacher Recruitment, Career Choice
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Amelia Underwood; Philip L. Frana; Fawn-Amber Montoya – Honors in Practice, 2024
This essay documents approaches to growing honors affiliate faculties through community and university partnerships. The need for new strategies to prepare non-traditional faculties is shown by evidence that the student population is changing and by the critical responsibility honors programs have in the mentorship of diverse students.…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Universities
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Amy McPherson; Jo Lampert; Bruce Burnett – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
This article brings together a number of key issues that emerge in research around the problem of teacher shortages in hard-to-staff schools. It offers a broad overview of the hard-to-staff schooling sector as discussed in recent academic literature and provides a context-specific overview of the literature around workforce shortages in…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Disadvantaged Schools, Foreign Countries, Poverty
Emily Morton; Emma Dewil – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Four-day school week (4DSW) schedules are growing rapidly across the U.S., with school districts citing perceived benefits to teacher recruitment and retention and student attendance as motivations for adopting the schedule. This study uses panel data from Colorado, one of the states with the highest prevalence of 4DSWs, to investigate the impacts…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Attendance Patterns
Melissa Emrey-Arras – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
While the U.S. population has become increasingly diverse, college faculty may not reflect those same levels of diversity. Little is known at the national level about the relationship between faculty diversity and student outcomes. Separately, faculty have reported experiencing discrimination at colleges. GAO was asked to review faculty diversity…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Referral, Federal Government
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