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Johnson, Iryna Y. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2010
This study addresses methodological problems surrounding existing research on exposure to contingent instructors and student outcomes. By applying non-aggregated and aggregated measures of exposure to contingent instructors to the same data, this analysis demonstrates that effects of commonly used measures of exposure to contingent instructors…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
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Taylor, Matthew J. – Journal of Geography, 2009
In this article I explain how I combined service learning, public-good work, and research in Guatemala. This path has not been easy. Indeed, it has been risky because the time invested in public-good work and teaching field classes could have detracted from research productivity. Taking a risk under the current and traditional academic model at…
Descriptors: Productivity, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Nontenured Faculty
Gonzalez, Lynn Passmore – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The mission of higher education and the activities of faculty are often described in terms of teaching, research, and service. Additionally, tenure has been the standard model for employment in American college and universities since 1940. The traditional model of faculty earning tenure through high standards of teaching, research, and service is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tenure, Academic Freedom, College Faculty
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MacDonald, Gail Braccidiferro – Academe, 2010
What qualities are the essence of a top-notch university professor? "Enthusiastic." "Fun." "Interesting." "Cares about students." These attributes are listed in student reviews of America's number one professor for 2009, as determined by the Web site ratemyprofessor.com. Other students made these comments about the same instructor: "Very easy A,"…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Tests, Internet
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Thedwall, Kate – New Directions for Higher Education, 2008
A history of the professoriate would not be complete without an account of nontenure-track faculty. Whether these faculty members are referenced using the terms "contingent," "part time," "contract," "adjunct," "clinical," "research," "visiting," "lecturer," or…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Tenure
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Alberts, Heike C.; Hazen, Helen D.; Theobald, Rebecca B. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2010
This study investigates patterns in classroom incivilities among pre-tenure geography faculty at US colleges and universities. The analysis considers experiences of different groups of faculty, and societal and institutional contexts for faculty and student expectations. Most respondents reported experiencing minor incivilities, a minority…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Teacher Student Relationship
Goodall, Hurley – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Medical scientists just starting at universities have been, more and more often, left empty-handed when the federal government awards grants. To offset this, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to medical research, announced a new program that will award $300-million to as many as 70 young scientists. The Early…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Medical Research, Grants, Nontenured Faculty
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Finnegan, Dorothy E.; Hyle, Adrienne E. – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: Faculty rank has been used variously as an independent variable to explore faculty attitudes and behaviors such as productivity, institutional commitment, and turnover, and as a dependent variable to establish the case for discrimination. As a sociological role, however, rank has been neglected. We know little about the…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Predictor Variables, College Faculty, Expertise
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2015
This Accountability Report shows the status and progression of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) from one year to the next. The Executive Summary is divided into the following sections: (1) Dashboard; (2) Key Achievements; and (3) Narrative. Data tables on FAMU's financial resources, personnel, enrollment, undergraduate…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Accountability, Educational Finance, School Personnel
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Hackmann, Donald G.; McCarthy, Martha M. – Planning and Changing, 2011
This study was conducted to develop a demographic profile of full-time educational leadership clinical faculty, to identify their professional responsibilities, and to compare their job satisfaction and perceptions of the educational leadership field with those of tenure-line faculty. Utilizing an online questionnaire, 140 clinical faculty and 755…
Descriptors: Profiles, Demography, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Training
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Kurland, Jordan E. – Academe, 2008
This article presents three recent American Association of University Professors (AAUP) cases that involved the dismissal of a senior non-tenure-track member of the faculty. The most recent case resulted in the investigating committee's report on Nicholls State University, a regional public institution in Louisiana. Preceding Nicholls was an…
Descriptors: Investigations, Tenure, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
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Academe, 2009
Boston University (BU) has had a history of contentious relations between administrators and faculty. John Silber, who ran the university from the early 1970s through the late 1990s, gave faculty little say in university governance, and an "us versus them" atmosphere soon developed. In 2004, however, major changes in the board of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Nontenured Faculty
Kezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – Pullias Center for Higher Education, 2012
It is important for administrators, faculty, and policy makers to understand and consider how policies commonly associated with non-tenure-track faculty roles and working environments impact student learning. Many policies impede the ability of faculty to provide effective instruction that is aligned with departmental and institutional goals for…
Descriptors: Tenure, Outcomes of Education, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty
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Lund, Jacalyn; Boyce, B. Ann; Oates, Richard; Fiorentino, Leah – Quest, 2010
If one reads the paper or listens to the news, professional disposition are almost becoming critical job skills in the world of work. Similarly, faculty dispositions, defined in this article as "attitudes, values, and beliefs demonstrated through both verbal and non-verbal behaviors as educators interact with students, families, colleagues, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tenure, Focus Groups, Job Skills
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Kezar, Adrianna; Sam, Cecile – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2010
This monograph complements volume 36, issue number 4 of ASHE Higher Education Report: "Understanding the New Majority of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty," and focuses on theories applied to study non-tenure-track faculty and philosophical and practical tensions represented in the literature. The chapter "Theories Used to Study and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nontenured Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
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