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For this study we used the 2011–2014 survey data collected by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to examine the degree of international faculty members’ satisfaction with autonomy, interactions with colleagues, departmental climate, and recognition and the effect of these elements upon the overall workplace satisfaction of international faculty members relative to their U.S. citizen peers. This study helps identify factors that can enhance international faculty members’ satisfaction in order to aid institutions in their efforts not only to recruit the best talent but also to support and retain such talent. 相似文献
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This article reports on the impact of organized research centers on professional effort, productivity, and perceptions of
work satisfaction for life sciences faculty members at research intensive universities’ medical schools in the U.S. Results
indicate that senior center-affiliated faculty members taught less but worked more total hours than peers not affiliated with
centers. Senior affiliated faculty members were more productive than their non-affiliated peers and were more likely to be
principal investigators on externally funded grants. Center-affiliated faculty members were more likely to be dissatisfied
with their mix of activities and workload but more likely to be satisfied with job security and autonomy. Implications beyond
this context are suggested.
Sarah A. Bunton is a Senior Research Associate at the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington DC. She received her B.A. from
the University of Chicago, her M.A. from the University of Minnesota, and her Ph.D. in higher educational policy also from
the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include postsecondary faculty work life and satisfaction, higher education
organization, and student development.
William T. Mallon is Assistant Vice President and Director of Organization and Management Studies at the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Dr. Mallon received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Richmond and his M.Ed. and Ed.D. in higher education policy from
Harvard University. His research interests focus on the ways in which academic medical centers recruit and retain faculty
and administrative leaders and the interorganizational relationships among medical schools, teaching hospitals, and parent
universities. 相似文献
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《欧洲教育》2013,45(3):26-52
Increasingly, faculty members are rewarded financially for prestige-maximizing publications. As a result, the balance between publishing and other activities such as teaching or public service may collapse, as argued by Leisyte, Enders, and de Boer (2009). In our paper, we focus on career-related rewards and study their impact on publication productivity to see whether economic incentives do indeed affect faculty behavior, as measured empirically. We compare economic incentives resulting from two different career systems, namely those within the German and the U.S. university systems. We derive three hypotheses regarding expected publication patterns and test them by comparing the lifetime publication patterns of German and U.S. business and economics faculty members. 相似文献
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The present study aims at assessing faculty attitudes toward institutional competitive strategies in U.S. research universities and at exploring some of the correlates of these attitudes.
A stratified random sample of 40 U.S. research university departments, 10 each in physics, sociology, electrical engineering, and education was surveyed by means of a questionnaire.
The major findings of this study suggest that faculty members at research universities express non‐receptive attitudes toward university generic strategies, although, more productive,more satisfied and more committed faculty members are relatively more receptive toward university strategies than less productive, less satisfied and less committed faculty members.
The meaning and the implications of these findings are discussed. 相似文献
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Across the field of U.S. higher education, regional teaching and comprehensive universities are striving for national research status. This tendency has most often been explored at the organizational level, but in this paper, the views and actions of faculty members are the unit of analysis. Based on qualitative data, I put forward a three pronged frame-work that organizes overarching faculty responses to one university’s transition. I focus most specifically on one faculty response, which I call operationalizing in order to show how faculty members take agency in a moment of complex change that illuminates tensions between faculty, university leaders and the field of higher education, more generally. Contributing to the literature on faculty agency, mission creep/striving and change in higher education, I unpack specific ideas and practices that faculty used as they took agency over their careers. 相似文献
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Linda K. Johnsrud 《Higher Education》1993,25(2):207-222
The purpose of this study is to explore the perceptions of Korean faculty regarding the cross-cultural implications of their graduate education abroad for their careers in the academy. Personal interviews were conducted with twenty-seven Western-trained faculty members at three private research universities in the Republic of Korea. Individuals were purposively selected to provide representation across disciplinary fields, academic rank and gender. The study focuses on faculty members' 1) experiences as foreign graduate students and their socialization to the professoriate, and 2) perceptions of the impact of their cross-cultural graduate preparation on their academic careers. Analyses of the data with respect to the research questions revealed two themes: 1) the westernized expectations they developed regarding teaching and research, and 2) the emphasis they place on service to their university and nation. The implications of these findings are discussed not only for faculty careers but also for Western graduate education and training. 相似文献
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This paper is a comparison of levels of occupational stress among African American and white college and university faculty members in U.S. institutions. Using survey data collected from a national sample of faculty, an analysis of reported occupational stress levels was undertaken to determine if issues raised in previous research regarding extra-academic assignments given to African American faculty limits their access to the more traditional faculty roles, creating pressure to perform in ways not expected of white faculty. To test these assertions, scales measuring stress from teaching, research, and service activities were constructed for African American and white faculty from a larger faculty stress index. Results of the analysis indicate that African American faculty report generally higher levels of occupational stress than their white counterparts, especially in the areas of research and service activities. 相似文献
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Patricia L. Hardré PhD 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(8):539-561
Community college faculty members often find themselves divided between what they want to do and what they can do. Knowing what motivates faculty to engage in professional development and scholarly productive activities provides critical information for administrators. The present study explored the motivational characteristics of community college faculty and the contextual factors that support or thwart their engagement and productivity. It focused on three key professional activities: (a) basic or applied research, (b) classroom action/teaching research, and (c) faculty professional development. Findings indicate that community college faculty are motivated for all three activities primarily by intrinsic and value-related factors rather than by extrinsic or contextual factors. Further, faculty members present somewhat different motivational profiles for the three work activities. Their motivations also demonstrate responsiveness to workplace characteristics as faculty perceive and interpret them. These findings provide implications to help college administrators make policy decisions to support the work of faculty and align with institutional mission and goals. 相似文献
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David Fleischman Maria Raciti Meredith Lawley 《Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATION》2015,25(1):85-103
Increased competition for the international student market has motivated universities to modernize their marketing strategies. Community engagement is an important component of students' international university experience and represents a potential point of competitive advantage. Developing marketing strategies around university–student–community engagement (U–S–CE) requires an understanding of the perspectives of international students, the university and the community. We anchored our study in value co-creation which is a principle of the service dominant logic framework found in the marketing literature. With limited research in the area, a qualitative approach was appropriate. Interviews were undertaken with key university members (n?=?4) and community members (n?=?5) concurrently with focus groups of international students (n?=?22) at a single university. Based on the degree of co-creation by international students in U–S–CE, three groups emerged: consumers, collaborators and co-designers. This study offers theoretical and practical insight, providing a platform for further research into U–S–CE. 相似文献
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Sources of stress in academe: A national perspective 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：2
Walter H. Gmelch Nicholas P. Lovrich Phyllis Kay Wilke 《Research in higher education》1984,20(4):477-490
The purpose of the national faculty stress research project was to examine stress experienced by faculty in institutions of higher education. The study sample of 80 institutions was drawn from the population of all U. S. doctoral-granting institutions in the United States. One thousand twenty faculty were selected and stratified by academic rank and Biglan's academic discipline model. The response rate was 75.28 percent. In general, faculty reported 60 percent of the total stress in their lives came from work. The majority of the top 10 stressors related directly to time and/or resource constraints. When faculty stressors were compared across disciplinary groupings, more similarity than difference existed. Also, faculty reported similar degrees of stress associated with the teaching, research, and service functions, with teaching as the most stressful activity. 相似文献
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Jon S. Hesseldenz 《Research in higher education》1976,5(4):321-334
Faculty workload analyses have been with us for many years, but no study has ever grouped faculty by personality type or by academic rank. This paper examines the results of a study in which faculty at a large state university were classified according to Holland's theory of vocational choice. Multivariate analysis of variance showed that faculty members of the five Holland types not only differed on four self-reported measures of faculty effort, instruction, research, public service, instiutional-professional activities (all measured in hours per average week) but that the findings were supportive of Holland's theory. In addition, analysis by rank showed that while total hours per week were not statistically different among the ranks, hours in instructional and institutional-professional activities varied greatly but hours in research and public service did not. The conclusion is that changes in instructional workload will not affect research or public service activities of faculty members. 相似文献
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《The Internet and Higher Education》2007,10(1):41-52
This study examines factors related to technology use in teaching by university faculty. An EFA analysis of multiple questions of technology use in the classroom found two factors: one loaded with Web use and the second with email use. Therefore, three research questions were asked: What factors explain faculty use of the Web or email? Are these factors the same for both Web and email use? What is the relationship of technology use to faculty productivity? The sample included full-time faculty at doctoral and research institutions selected from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty:1999 (NSOPF:99) dataset. Independent variables included measures of teaching, research, and service productivity, along with other contextual, demographic, and professional variables. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to prepare eight models (email and Web use for Doctoral I, Doctoral II, Research I, and Research II institutions). Results confirmed that age and Internet access were important factors related to faculty technology use. The relationship between email and Web use to teaching productivity in particular is intriguing and may indicate that productive faculty use technology to help them be more productive or that technology use impacts productivity. Research and service productivity also exhibited distinctive patterns with email and Web use. 相似文献
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《Journal of Marketing for HIGHER EDUCATION》2013,23(1):17-32
ABSTRACT International students represent a growing market segment for colleges and universities in the U.S. As universities begin to target international students, it will become imperative that university administrators and faculty understand what these students expect once they arrive on campus. The present study, utilizing 686 U.S. and 338 Australian business students was designed to explore university service expectations from a cross-cultural perspective. Results indicate that expectations of Australian students are greater than those of U.S students on three dimensions of service quality. Implications for university administrators and faculty, along with future directions, are discussed. 相似文献
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Ruby Goddard 《The Educational forum》2013,77(2):196-198
The careers of faculty members pass through transitional stages, during which they may receive mentoring; develop competence; fulfill their institutionally specific responsibilities in teaching, research, and service; achieve career aspirations; and, hopefully, maintain enthusiasm for and commitment to their professional endeavors. The importance of providing appropriate, career-long professional growth opportunities is essential to help faculty members thrive. 相似文献
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Hugo Horta 《Higher Education》2009,58(5):689-721
This article examines the effects that performing a post-doc early in the academic career have for the current scholarly practices
of faculty members. Results show that performing a post-doc early in the academic career impacts positively the recent research
output of academics, although not affecting the other faculty member’s scholarly activities, namely teaching. The results
also show that academics that did a post-doc engage in more regular information exchange dynamics with international peers
than their colleagues that did not. This is particularly evident for the younger generations of scholars and for those who
spent the post-doctoral period abroad. It is concluded that the post-doctoral period not only fosters a greater production
of scientific outputs later in the academic career, but also leads to a greater integration into international scholarly communities.
These benefits potentiate former post-docs to become key players in any scientific or higher education system. 相似文献
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Yu Li 《Chinese Education & Society》2020,53(3):115-133
Abstract Based on data from the “2014 Chinese University Faculty Survey,” this article analyzes the distribution characteristics and manifestations of internationalization from returnee faculty to Chinese colleges as well as their impacts on the internationalization of higher education in the three dimensions of scientific research output, teaching content and methods, and international exchanges. Compared to local teachers, returnee faculty members adjust their research output strategies to reach a higher level of internationalization. They favor publishing papers in international journals and publish fewer domestic papers and make fewer domestic patent applications. They focus on international perspectives and content in their course teaching content and methods. In terms of international exchanges, they participate in international academic conferences and travel abroad more often for advanced studies. Their experiences studying overseas accumulate their comparative advantage in the internationalization of the academic profession. Higher education institutions should make them play larger roles in promoting the internationalization of scientific research and teaching as well as international academic exchanges to improve the level of internationalization of Chinese higher education. 相似文献
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We identify the major tasks facing pre-tenure faculty members and outline advice, based on a review of the literature and
our experiences, for succeeding in academia. The challenges encountered by new faculty include learning the culture of the
new academic institution, understanding the processes and policies for academic performance review, establishing meaningful
and constructive mentoring relationships, creating a sustainable research agenda as well as fostering the writing attitudes
and strategies that promote turning research projects into publications. Also included are recommendations for developing
expertise in teaching, cultivating healthy and productive relationships with advisees, and fulfilling service responsibilities.
Finally, we suggest strategies for balancing the multiple, and sometimes competing, demands and expectations. 相似文献
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Foreign-born women faculty work roles and productivity at research universities in the United States
Ketevan Mamiseishvili 《Higher Education》2010,60(2):139-156
Using the data from the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04) survey, the study examined foreign-born women
faculty members’ work roles and productivity in the areas of teaching, research, and service in comparison with their US-born
counterparts at research universities in the US. The findings provided some evidence to suggest that foreign-born women faculty
members’ patterns of engagement in work activities contradicted the gendered division of labor in academia. The findings indicated
that foreign-born female academics were significantly more engaged in research that was evident in the number of scholarly
outputs they produced compared to US-born women faculty colleagues. On the other hand, they seemed to be less involved in
teaching and service functions of their work than their US-born women peers. The study could serve as a good starting point
to further examine foreign-born women faculty socialization into faculty roles and their academic work culture. 相似文献
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Jana Bouwma-Gearhart 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2012,21(5):558-570
This paper reports on a qualitative, grounded-theory-based study that explored the motivations of science and engineering faculty to engage in teaching professional development at a major research university. Faculty members were motivated to engage in teaching professional development due to extrinsic motivations, mainly a weakened professional ego, and sought to bring their teaching identities in better concordance with their researcher identities. The results pose a challenge to a body of research that has concluded that faculty must be intrinsically motivated to participate in teaching professional development. Results confirmed a pre-espoused theory of motivation, self-determination theory; a discussion of research literature consideration during grounded theory research is offered. A framework for motivating more faculty members at research universities to engage in teaching professional development is provided. 相似文献