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Artesi, Nancy – NJEA Review, 1981
Describes some of the activities of a one-day stress workshop for teachers conducted by Joseph A. Artesi at a New Jersey high school. A short insert on teacher burnout is appended. (SJL)
Descriptors: Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Stress Variables
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Christensen, John E.; Conway, David F. – Action in Teacher Education, 1991
A questionnaire survey of beginning and new-to-district teachers in a large school district studied use of self-selected mentors. Teachers indicated they did self-select mentors, generally from the same area or grade level. Most needed mentors to provide information on policy and procedures. All perceived the experience as valuable. (SM)
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Mentors
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Harrington, Dick – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2001
Offers a critical distinction between scholarship and research. Notes how George Vaughan urges community colleges to support and reward scholarship. Comments that excellence in teaching and therefore excellence in learning happen only when faculty and staff are engaged in their fields and supported in their daily work. (SG)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Interviews
Poole, Wendy L. – 1997
Teacher unions are increasingly perceived as principal stakeholders in determining the overall effectiveness of school systems. This paper presents findings of a study that explored how teacher union leaders construct meaning about teachers' self-interests and education interests. Data were collected through interviews with 18 teacher union…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Objectives, Professional Development
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Gottron, Martha – Change, 1975
The National Education Association (NEA) provides traditional education services to its members but also emphasizes political action and secures employment rights for teachers. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Political Attitudes, Professional Associations, Teacher Associations
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Furniss, W. Todd – Educational Record, 1974
Probes tenure, tenure guarantees, union protests, affirmative action, early retirement, ideal steady-state faculty mix, and their implications for higher education. (PG)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Faculty, Higher Education, Personnel Policy
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Berendzen, Richard – Educational Record, 1974
Examines population data and their implications for higher education, such as steady-state staffing and a rise in continuing education. (Editor/PG)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Enrollment, Enrollment Trends, Higher Education
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Chemical and Engineering News, 1974
Reports the major issues examined at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). These included the deteriorating economic status of university professors, the role and activities of AAUP, academic freedom and tenure, and collective bargaining by faculty members. (JR)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Economic Change
Evergreen State Coll., Olympia, Washington. – 1971
Presented in this paper is an outline of the policy at Evergreen State College concerning faculty evaluation, faculty reappointment or nonreappointment, and program review and institutional self-study. Within the policy is the belief that the principles governing academic freedom and faculty responsibility at Evergreen must apply to all members of…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Higher Education, Professors
El-Khawas, Elaine H.; Furniss, W. Todd – 1974
This survey of faculty tenure and contract systems was conducted during August 1974 as a followup to an earlier Higher Education Panel survey of institutional policies and practices affecting faculty employment. A survey questionnaire mailed to the entire membership of the Higher Education Panel (644 institutions) received a 91 percent response…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Contracts, Higher Education, Probationary Period
Corlett, Donald Frederick – 1970
This study was undertaken to determine the information that experience has shown is legally necessary for tenure policies, and to establish a model that would permit adaptation to local conditions. A study, analysis, and summary of the concept of instructor tenure is offered as it pertains to public elementary schools, secondary school systems,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Doctoral Dissertations, Probationary Period, Teacher Employment
Emmet, Thomas – 1974
The first state laws concerning public employees in general were passed as early as 1959. The first law covering postsecondary teaching personnel was the 1965 Michigan law. Twenty states currently have some form of formal statute that covers employees in postsecondary institutions. However, in several states the provisions do not cover teaching…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Higher Education, Personnel Policy, Postsecondary Education
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, Boulder, CO. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. – 1973
This document presents the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems' (NCHEMS) faculty activity survey instrument and discusses the procedural questions involved in conducting an activity survey. Recommended procedures are given where appropriate. Some of the concerns confronting an institution that is initiating an activity survey…
Descriptors: Faculty, Higher Education, Noninstructional Responsibility, Surveys
Freeman, Thomas M.; Rossmeier, Joseph G. – 1973
This study examines several tenure trends, their relation to other current issues in higher education, the problem of supporting tenure trends in the future, and several solutions to resolve the current tenure crisis including another viable basis for analyzing tenure data. Some of the more reliable position indicators of tenure trends are…
Descriptors: Administration, College Faculty, Educational Administration, Educational Research
Moran, K. D. – 1968
This report reviews and analyzes court cases to determine the types of injuries to teachers and other school personnel that might be compensable under workmen's compensation laws. The author identifies certain injuries suffered by public school personnel "arising out of or in the course of employment." Other types of cases that deal with…
Descriptors: Administrators, Court Litigation, Injuries, School Law
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