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Eric W. Schoon – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
This article explores how researchers adapt to disruptions that cost them access to their field sites, advancing a uniquely sociological perspective on the dynamics of flexibility and adaptation in qualitative methods. Through interviews with 31 ethnographers whose access was preempted or eliminated, I find that adaptation varied systematically…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Researchers, Ethnography, Attitudes
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Baghurst, Timothy; Price, Taryn; Holden, Shelley; Andrew, Damon – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2020
Securing a first academic job in the United States as a young professional can be a very time consuming and stressful process. Candidates must carefully apply and then typically navigate off- and on-campus interviews. Although there is some literature dedicated to aiding in this process, some areas are not extensively discussed, such as contract…
Descriptors: Kinetics, Human Body, Physiology, Job Applicants
Demetry, Chrysanthe; Long Lingo, Elizabeth; Skorinko, Jeanine – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2019
The goals of higher education--engaging the hearts and minds of our next generation, advancing novel and pragmatic solutions to the most pressing local and global problems--call for great passion and skill. That's not the whole formula, though. Diversity performs its own powerful role. College faculties that represent a diversity of expertise,…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), College Faculty, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty
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Cathery Yeh; Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath; Betina Hsieh; Judy Yu – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
This article centers the counternarratives of four Asian American motherscholar teacher educators presented as letters to our children in which we apply tenets of AsianCrit to parenting and education, with racial realism at the forefront. Using Asian Critical Theory and motherscholar research to frame our analysis, themes within and across the…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Women Faculty, Teacher Educators, Personal Narratives
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Christina Holmgren; Jayne K. Sommers – Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 2024
Despite institutional claims to value increased racial diversity in higher education, Black women in faculty roles perpetually navigate oppressive cultures across all institutional types. The ability to build and foster mutually beneficial interracial mentoring relationships is vitally important to move beyond performative diversity and build…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Racial Relations, Mentors, Feminism
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Agah, Niloofar Nickol; Kaniuka, Theodore; Chitiga, Miriam – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2020
The pursuit of tenure in higher education is arguably the dominant focus of tenure track faculty throughout the United States' higher education environment, if not a world-wide phenomenon. By applying Vroom's Expectancy theory of motivation, this study intends to investigate the relationship between research productivity and motivation to conduct…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty, Academic Rank (Professional)
Anuja Sarda – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Continuing growth in immigration in the U.S. and other countries worldwide means an increased number of speakers of languages other than English or other national languages in classrooms, thus raising a need for teachers prepared for linguistically diverse student populations. While recent research in teaching and teacher education has pointed to…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Global Approach, Foreign Workers, International Cooperation
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García, Hugo A.; McNaughtan, Jon; Nehls, Kim – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
This chapter presents three themes that have emerged from the previous chapters and offers ideas on how to implement recommendations within IR offices.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Program Implementation, Change Strategies, Nontenured Faculty
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Denaro, Kameryn; Kranzfelder, Petra; Owens, Melinda T.; Sato, Brian; Zuckerman, Austin L.; Hardesty, Rebecca A.; Signorini, Adriana; Aebersold, Andrea; Verma, Mayank; Lo, Stanley M. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: The University of California system has a novel tenure-track education-focused faculty position called Lecturer with Security of Employment (working titles: Teaching Professor or Professor of Teaching). We focus on the potential difference in implementation of active-learning strategies by faculty type, including tenure-track…
Descriptors: Active Learning, College Faculty, Tenure, Teacher Characteristics
Evans, Chad – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The proportion of non-tenure track faculty has grown over the last decade and adjuncts now constitute two-thirds of the academic workforce. Despite this growth, there remain important limitations to our understanding of this new faculty majority. For one, typologies for conceptualizing adjunct diversity are often poorly aligned and make limited…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Job Satisfaction, Faculty Mobility
Wynne, Phillip Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Earning tenure is a prestigious, professional achievement for faculty in higher education. The number of tenured faculty, open tenure positions, and newly created tenure positions within higher-education has declined since the 1970's. A reduction in governmental funding to higher education since the Great Recession of 2008 caused higher education…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, State Universities, Tenure
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Culver, K. C.; Young, Ryan L.; Barnhardt, Cassie L. – Innovative Higher Education, 2020
Given the changing landscape of postsecondary faculty employment, institutions benefit from understanding how organizational policies and behaviors affects the faculty's perception of organizational support. Using data from faculty members, including those with contingent and part-time appointments, at a single institution in the western United…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Departments
Waller, Darlene – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The majority of tenured faculty members, full professors, and senior level administrators, such as presidents, provosts, and deans, are likely to be men (Hammond, 2015). Given that there are an equal or even higher number of women in academic employment, the concern becomes why men still dominate higher ranking positions within American colleges…
Descriptors: Tenure, College Faculty, Postsecondary Education, Databases
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Drake, Anna; Struve, Laura; Meghani, Sana Ali; Bukoski, Beth – Review of Higher Education, 2019
Applying O'Meara, Campbell, and Terosky's (2011) faculty agency framework, this qualitative case study examined full-time, non-tenure-track faculty (FTNTTF) members' perceptions of their agency at an elite public research university. Participants experienced greater agency over time and in the classroom, but felt their agency was constrained by…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, Research Universities, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Priddie, Christen; Palmer, Dajanae; Silberstein, Samantha; BrckaLorenz, Allison – To Improve the Academy, 2022
While much of the quantitative research on Black women faculty has taken a comparative approach to understanding their experiences, this study provides a counternarrative, centering their experiences as faculty. This large-scale, multi-institution glance at Black women faculty helps to give us an overview of these women across the country, looking…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Females, Women Faculty, College Faculty
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