Focuses on four issues: (1) recruitment of faculty members, (2) employing organizations' responsibilities, (3) supervisor's role, and (4) challenges for professional associations. (JOW)

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In the 60s many universities experienced difficulties in recruiting adequate numbers of suitable qualified staff. (Author)

The preconference on Recruitment of Minorities featured a diversified program with an array of speakers, a panel discussion, concurrent sessions on problem solving, and summaries and critiques from two conference "floaters." (Author)

Focuses on the hiring process from the interviewee's viewpoint. Provides additional information that will help search committees do their jobs well. Suggests six broad categories of concern in recruiting: advertising the job, providing adequate information, treating candidates honestly, conducting campus interviews, avoiding problems in searches,…

Identifies the types of positions available at domestic four-year institutions of higher education for faculty whose specialty is educational technology. Analyzes educational job postings listed in the "Chronicle of Higher Education" from August, 2000, through July, 2001. (Author/SOE)

Recruiting programs aimed at the spouses of potential faculty members are becoming more common at universities and colleges. Among the reasons most frequently cited for this phenomenon are: there are more dual-career couples; more women are attending graduate school, raising the likelihood of academic marriages; and competition for faculty. (MLW)

In 1999, most deans of nursing schools that belonged to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing reported that they did not have a faculty shortage. By 2005, however, 75 percent of U.S. nursing schools cited faculty shortages as the major reason for denying admission to qualified students. The average age of nurse educators holding PhDs is…

The unequal status of women professors, compared to their male counterparts, is not staggering news. While women constitute approximately sixty percent of the undergraduate population and earn more than half the doctorates in the United States, women professors continue to number fewer than men. The American Association of University Professors…

FACULTY MEMBERS IN AA DEGREE NURSING PROGRAMS SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST THE MASTER'S DEGREE, ACCOMPANIED BY SOME FAMILIARITY WITH THIS TYPE OF NURSING PROGRAM AND WITH THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AS AN INSTITUTION. FACTORS WHICH INHIBIT RECRUITMENT OF QUALIFIED NURSING FACULTY ARE (1) LACK OF AWARENESS OF THE PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM, (2)…

This study examined (1) Illinois and Maryland state policies on recruitment of part-time junior college teachers, (2) institutional recruitment practices, sources, and techniques, (3) orientation practices for part-time faculty, and (4) their relation to standard principles of personnel administration. All Colleges in both states were asked to…

To recruit and retain qualified faculty in competition with industry and government, junior colleges have been improving their fringe benefit programs. This study examines the benefits currently available at 389 colleges and shows their order of frequency and their relation to college age, size, and location. The most frequent benefit is the…

A search and screen process was conducted to fill the position of chairperson for the Division of Education, Indiana University at South Bend, during the school year 1975-76. A cost analysis of this procedure was done based on certain assumptions: (1) the long history and general acceptance of the process in higher education; (2) the collective…