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20世纪90年代以来,美国大学由于受到市场权力因素影响,实施百年的终身教职制度受到了更多的质疑,并面临改革。美国大学以市场权力因素影响下的院校协调力量来解决问题:继续实施终身教职,实施终身聘后评审制度,增加兼职与非终身轨教师的比例,或从原来的合同制改为终身教职制度。美国大学在进行教师聘任制度改革时每个大学总是把自身的发展与需要放在最为重要的地位,将聘任制度改革与教师职业发展、大学知识的创新宗旨结合起来,充分发挥了市场权力中院校协调的力量,避免了同质化。 相似文献
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借鉴新制度主义理论，本文对美国大学教师评聘的“共识性”标准及其评价实践中的标准分化现象进行解释。研究发现，专业协会通过制定和传播被学术界广泛认可的学术理念和规则，促进了机构的规范性趋同。经费紧缩、问责强化以及大学排名的兴起使得研究导向的评价标准得到广泛应用，进而引发了机构的模仿性趋同。与此同时，历史传统、办学使命和发展目标的差异使得不同类型的大学通过对评价标准进行优先排序以及对具体指标进行差异化赋权，分别形成了各具特色、重点突出的评价标准体系。趋同与分化，构成美国大学教师评聘标准的“一体两面”。借鉴美国大学的经验，我国在深化高校教师分类评价改革的进程中，应进一步扩大和落实高校人事自主权，鼓励不同类型和层次的高校结合实际校情与本校特色，制定更加多元化与精细化的教师评聘标准体系。 相似文献
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Isabeau Iqbal 《Teaching in Higher Education》2013,18(5):557-569
This study draws from 30 semi-structured interviews with tenure-track faculty members in a research-intensive university to examine their lack of engagement in the summative peer review of teaching. Findings indicate that most academics in the study do not think peer review outcomes contribute meaningfully to decisions about career advancement and believe that, in comparison, student evaluation of teaching scores matter more. The findings suggest that faculty member resistance to summative peer reviews will persist unless academics are confident that the results will be seriously considered in decisions about tenure and promotion. This article also contends that senior administrators should provide further clarity about the purpose and use of peer review outcomes in high-stakes career decisions. 相似文献
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Harry G. Murray 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》1984,9(2):117-132
This paper reviews recent research evidence on formative (developmental) and summative (judgemental) evaluation of teaching in North American universities. The major conclusions of the review are as follows: (1) student ratings are the most common method of evaluating teaching in North American universities, and their popularity appears to be increasing; (2) student ratings have been found to provide reliable and valid information on limited aspects of teaching competence; (3) teaching evaluations make a difference in decisions on faculty salary, tenure and promotion; (4) evaluation of teaching has been shown to produce modest improvements in teaching effectiveness; (5) faculty satisfaction with teaching evaluation practices ranges from very high to very low, depending on institutional context; and (6) there is consensus that several specific improvements are needed in the current teaching evaluation system. 相似文献
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This article examines one of China's top universities – Renmin University – and changes in faculty life linked to internationalization and the push to build world-class universities. Employing academic culture as a theoretical lens and case-study methodology, the authors highlight several significant changes, as described in semi-structured interviews with 27 Renmin faculty members. Some changes discussed include increasing reliance on international standards of scholarship, greater emphasis on faculty acquiring international experience, increased collaborations with foreign scholars and organizations, and the adoption of various pedagogical and curricular facets associated with Western universities. Serious attention is given to concerns raised by several Renmin faculty members apprehensive of certain forms of internationalization and concerned about the likelihood of Chinese universities becoming colonized by Western norms and methodologies. 相似文献
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Jean S. Filetti 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2013,21(4):343-352
Universities generally have clear expectations for teaching and scholarship, and often a faculty member’s publications, research and scholarship are the primary factors in tenure and promotion decisions. Many universities do include service as one component in annual reviews as well as in assessing progress toward tenure and promotion. Unfortunately, criteria for evaluating service are often not specified. Having vaguely outlined expectations for service sends a message that service does not matter, ultimately doing a ‘disservice’ to faculty who need guidance on appropriate levels of service. As much as possible, department chairs, governance bodies that represent the faculty, and administrators who are responsible for evaluating faculty need to ensure that faculty members understand how they will be assessed in the area of service and to make evaluation in this area as transparent as possible. 相似文献
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Abstract This paper reports the findings of a study that examined the relationship between distance teaching and the faculty reward system. Using a qualitative approach, the study sought to understand how distance teaching is valued, rewarded, and accommodated within the institutional reward structure. Based on interviews with faculty members, distance education program administrators, and the chief academic officers at four research universities, the study describes a reward culture that is not accommodating to and rewarding of faculty work in distance education. The study finds that: 1) distance education occupies a marginal status, 2) distance teaching is neither highly valued nor well‐rewarded as scholarly activity, 3) distance teaching is not highly related to promotion and tenure decisions, and 4) rewards for distance teaching are dependent on the academic unit's commitment to distance education. 相似文献
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Striving universities seek to gain prestige in the academic market. One characteristic of striving universities is a change in the faculty reward system. In this study, we examined historical promotion and tenure criteria in five disciplinary units at one striving university and then conducted interviews with senior faculty and recently tenured faculty in each unit to better understand the striving dynamics at play. Findings demonstrated that pressures to seek legitimacy were a result of the faculty themselves, the institution’s desire to gain legitimacy through an increased research profile and the disciplinary ties outside the university. 相似文献
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本文主要采用内容分析法,以斯坦福大学(Stanford University)、密歇根大学(the University of Michigan)、匹兹堡大学(University of Pittsburgh)和佛罗里达州立大学(Florida State University)四所学校为案例,以《教师手册》(Faculty Handbook)的文本为主要研究对象,总结了美国大学对终身教职的最新界定,分析了它们在终身教职的现行政策中所广泛采用的做法,并在此基础上结合文献调研预测了终身教职的发展趋势. 相似文献
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Luis Urrieta Jr. Lina Méndez Esmeralda Rodríguez 《International journal of qualitative studies in education》2013,26(10):1149-1168
This article examines how Latina/o professors perceive, experience, and reflect on the tenure and promotion process. Findings for this longitudinal study are drawn from a purposive sample of nine female and seven male, Latina/o tenure-track faculty participants. Using a Critical Race Theory, Latino Critical (LatCrit) Race Theory, and Chicana Feminist framework, this article documents fundamental inequities in the tenure and promotion policies and practices that affected the Latina/o faculty in this study. Using narrative data, educational biographies, in-depth semi-structured interviews, and unstructured ethnographic interviews, this study found four common themes: (1) tenure and promotion processes functioned as a “tool of fear,” (2) the tenure and promotion process was like a “moving target,” (3) tenure provided limited forms of respect but not full membership, and (4) Latina/o supervivencia enabled the professors to thrive despite unsupportive and sometimes hostile campus and departmental climates. 相似文献
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Carrie Queenan Satish V. Nargundkar 《Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education》2023,21(4):182-196
Business schools have significantly increased the percentage of teaching-focused faculty (defined here as full-time faculty with doctorates not on the tenure track) over the last decades. However, many schools have not adequately updated their policies to support these faculty, leading some teaching-focused faculty to feel like second-class citizens. In this article, we provide a literature review of teaching-focused faculty hiring trends, challenges faced by teaching-focused faculty and the institutions that hire them, and proposed improvements to these challenges. Next, we draw from these best practices provided in the literature, as well as from first-person interviews, to share how business schools address these challenges. Specifically, we use interviews from decision makers (current and former deans) to examine how schools approach hiring and supporting teaching-focused faculty. Our study shows improved institutional support and acceptance of teaching-focused faculty over the past two decades, but with room for continued improvement. We conclude by arguing that TF faculty should be treated as strategic assets within schools in order to support collegiality, acceptance, and professional respect, while also enhancing students’ learning opportunities. In doing so, we hope to start a discussion of best practices that can better equip schools to provide institutional support to teaching-focused faculty. 相似文献
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Colleges and universities face a principal-agent problem. There are information asymmetries over the actions chosen by administrators. Because non-profit constraints limit the financial stake of trustees there may be insufficient monitoring of administrators and, consequentially, shirking. It is conceivable that faculty will serve as “delegated monitors” given the proper incentives. Faculty monitoring will most likely benefit a university when: (1) monitoring costs are low and (2) administrators cannot impose significant punishment costs on faculty. The practices of organized faculty participation in governance and tenure naturally achieve such ends. Empirical evidence from a sample of colleges and universities in the United States supports the hypothesis that features of a faculty's employment have significant effects on a university's financial performance. 相似文献
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Gregory A. Diggs Dorothy F. Garrison-Wade Diane Estrada Rene Galindo 《The Urban Review》2009,41(4):312-333
Through a comprehensive literature review, this article identifies and discusses barriers to recruitment and retention of
faculty of color. Marginalization, racism and sexism manifested as unintended barriers are presented as a few of the barriers
faculty of color face in successfully navigating the tenure process. Informed by this literature review, we conducted a self-study
that presents the experiences of four faculty of color navigating the tenure process in a predominately white Research Institution.
The purpose of this study was to share the experiences of three junior faculty of color as they navigate the tenure process,
and one tenured faculty of color who is informally mentoring them through the process. This article highlights the findings
of one component of a broader study: focus group discussions about how diversity efforts and activities are subsequently evidenced
in teaching, research agendas and service. Four themes are presented: Academic Identity; Confronting Diversity, Mentoring,
and Safe Spaces. A discussion of the consequences of these findings on faculty of color retention and recruitment is included.
Recommendations are made to other predominately white institutions on how to address issues facing faculty of color. 相似文献
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JIA Yong-tang 《高等教育研究》2008,(12)
美国现行的高校教师聘任制度是历史传统、市场逻辑和政治诉求等多重力量博弈的产物,其突出特点是适应学术职业的特殊要求,强调以终身教职制度维护学术自由,同时重视聘任程序的法制化。面对日益增强的外部压力,多数高校不得不适度弱化对教师的终身聘任并推行终身教职聘后评议制度,但即使是这些以保留终身教职制度为前提的改革依然引发了广泛争议。 相似文献
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The heads of education divisions of 245 colleges and universities in the USA were surveyed regarding their opinions about faculty activities and reward procedures. Tenure, which was viewed as having the greatest effect on faculty behavior, received significantly more attention from decision‐making bodies in the colleges, and merit pay received significantly less. Education administrators at top universities and larger universities viewed the desire for reputation as more motivating than did other education administrators. The department chairs believed that internal satisfaction was more of a motivating factor than did deans. The deans rated merit pay, contract renewal, promotion and tenure higher as motivators than did the department heads. Although evaluations of teaching were considered the most important for year‐to‐year contract renewal, article and book publication were the most important considerations in merit pay, promotion and tenure. A factor analysis grouped faculty activities into three factors: teaching, service, and publication. 相似文献
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Encouraging multiple forms of scholarship in faculty reward systems: Does It Make a Difference? 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
This article presents findings from a national study of Chief Academic Officers of 4-year institutions on the impact of policy efforts to encourage multiple forms of scholarship in faculty roles and rewards. The extent of reform, kinds of reform and influence of initiating reform is examined in four areas: expectations for faculty evaluation, the faculty evaluation process, promotion and tenure outcomes, and institutional effectiveness. The findings are also examined by institutional type. Findings from this study show that campuses that initiated policy reforms to encourage multiple forms of scholarship were significantly more likely than their counterparts to report that teaching scholarship and engagement counted more for faculty evaluation, to report a broader set of criteria used to assess scholarship, and report a higher percentage of tenure and promotion cases that emphasized their work in these areas. In addition, CAOs at campuses that initiated reforms reported a greater congruence between faculty priorities and institutional mission, and greater improvement in attention to undergraduate learning over the last decade. 相似文献
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Utilizing a nationwide sample of university professors in the United States, this study explored job satisfaction levels of academicians and the differences between perceived satisfaction of faculty in professional schools and that of faculty in other disciplines. The results were based upon responses from 336 faculty representing 24 universities selected on a stratified basis which included large, small, public and private universities. Teaching dimensions and research requirements were the most satisfying elements of the academic work environment; support and compensation aspects were the most dissatisfying. Faculty from professional schools reported higher levels of satisfaction for almost all of the 22 separate environmental dimensions, and these faculty also reported higher salaries and less stringent requirements for tenure and promotion. The demographic variables which explained the greatest amount of variance in work satisfaction scores were tenure, teaching load, sex, institution (public-private), and age. Salary and academic rank, which a priori are considered to be significant in an academician's satisfaction with work, appeared to have a lesser impact. 相似文献
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Research suggests that new doctoral graduates face increased publication pressure to achieve tenure: doctoral programs may
have also increased this expectation. We examined whether faculty graduating before and after the year 2000 differed significantly
in total publications, peer-reviewed publications, and first-authored publications as of the year they graduated with their
doctoral degrees along with peer-reviewed publications as of tenure. A sample of 197 curriculum vitae was retrieved from educational
psychology departmental websites across the 24 universities; vitae were coded for year the faculty member completed his/her
doctorate and total number of publications, number of peer-reviewed publications and number of first-authored, peer-reviewed
publications. Results indicated that faculty who graduated in the year 2000 and beyond had a significantly greater number
of total publications—more peer-reviewed publications, more first-authored, peer-reviewed publications as of the year they
graduated with their doctoral degrees, along with more peer-reviewed publications as of tenure. Publication productivity among
doctoral graduates of educational psychology programs at research universities before and after the year 2000. 相似文献
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Evaluation of teaching in higher education has drawn much attention due to the need for greater accountability and improvement in student learning. Our review of literature on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) surveys suggests that considerable controversy and criticism have surrounded its use, fairness, and validity. Yet, many universities in Hong Kong are depending primarily on student feedback in SET surveys to provide evidence for their improvement of teaching and learning, and for their decisions made on teachers' pay-rise and tenure. If universities are to continue to use SET surveys as the main source of mechanism for measuring teaching effectiveness, teachers will have to understand and be aware of its purposes. But how much do we know about teachers' perceptions of teaching and learning and, consequently, their opinions of using SET surveys as the primary standardized evaluation mechanism of teaching for promotion and tenure and for teaching effectiveness? 相似文献