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Lorraine T. Dorfman Karen A. Conner William Ward Jean B. Tompkins 《Research in higher education》1984,20(1):89-102
Dorfman et al. (1982) compared the professional activities of retired professors from liberal arts colleges, a comprehensive university, and a major research university. This companion piece based on the same survey compares the professors' reactions to retirement. Results show that a majority of faculty from all types of institutions plan for retirement, are positive about retirement, and give suggestions for institutional retirement policy. The retired professors recommend the following: (1) help in planning, (2) more information about retirement, (3) support for continued work, (4) gradual retirement. Major differences among institutions are the following: (1) comprehensive university faculty plan for retirement more than do faculty from the other institutions, (2) faculty from both universities begin financial planning at a younger age than do faculty from the liberal arts colleges, (3) research university faculty miss work and like having time to spend on professional activities more than do faculty from the other institutions. 相似文献
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Using data from a random sample of chief liberal arts academic officers in American colleges and universities, the authors examine the support of teaching in the liberal arts (defined as the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities). Information is presented on 15 categories of faculty support for teaching and research, basic teaching conditions, tenure decisions, and merit salary increases. Differences in support are examined among institutions that vary in size, location, sponsorship, and degree level. These findings suggest that liberal arts teaching is in less than excellent health on most American campuses. In addition, the researchers note numerous inconsistencies among resources, standards, and rewards in American institutions of higher learning and urge liberal arts administrators to reduce these inconsistencies where possible. 相似文献
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This study is an examination of the state of the liberal arts curriculum in community colleges in three geographic regions of the United States. From a constructivist paradigm and using globalization theory as a theoretical framework, this multiple case study examined faculty work life and administrative processes related to curriculum change in merged community and technical colleges. Through an examination of research on globalization, mergers, and trends in the general education and liberal arts curriculum, a gap in the literature emerged in the studies of community college curriculums after merger. This study considers whether the focus on workforce development and decrease in the transfer mission has diminished the liberal arts courses in the college curriculum. Research on liberal arts courses identified them as courses that emphasize higher order thinking and the development of intellectual skills needed to engage in a democratic society. If students are not exposed to these skills, it may have a detrimental effect on a democratic society. Study findings suggested that the English and communication curriculums are narrowing and the mission is more toward workforce skill preparation. Also, the changing demographics of today[#x02019]s community college students, as well as the ongoing budget constraints, create challenges and frustrations for faculty members. 相似文献
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Allen B. Tucker 《Computer Science Education》2013,23(1):23-35
This report summarizes recent and projected enrollment and staffing growth in undergraduate computer science (CS) programs for a selected group of colleges. It originates from a concern that liberal arts colleges, like other colleges and universities, will soon face a new crisis in undergraduate computer science education, one in which teaching and laboratory resources are severely strained by a rapid surge in enrollments in both the introductory courses and the CS major itself. If this is true, liberal arts colleges and universities that value their computer science programs must begin to aggressively expand their CS faculty ranks and laboratory support in the near term. 相似文献
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大多数高校将课程建设作为教学工作的重要内容,相应的课程建设评价体系也被作为教学工作的重中之重。文章分析影响高校文科类专业应用型课程建设的因素,简述高校文科类专业应用型课程建设评价内涵、目的和意义,指出构建文科类专业应用型课程建设评价体系的原则,以提高文科类专业课程教学质量,培养高素质应用型人才。 相似文献
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Michael L. Tierney 《Higher Education》1980,9(4):453-468
This study presents an estimate of departmental cost functions at selected private liberal arts colleges. Longitudinal data for seven academic departments at 31 institutions were analyzed separately by a multiple regression data analytic procedure. The general least squares estimates are then used to calculate average and marginal costs at the average value for each department. These latter estimates indicate that departmental costs are relatively inelastic, a finding that indicates that the financial problems will be compounded by increases in average departmental costs in an era of enrollment decline. 相似文献
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The authors model the class size and teaching load decisions of academic departments in terms of a departmental utility function. Utility is postulated to be asymmetric around class size and teaching load norms, and variables for curricular structure, disciplinary domain, and institutional type are taken into account. Maximization of the utility function produces decision rules for the number of sections to be offered for each course, and hence the faculty's overall teaching load. A nonlinear estimator is developed for the decision rules' parameters and applied to data from four liberal arts colleges and two research universities. Results are consistent with theories about faculty discretionary time and with expectations about the effects of curricular structure on class size. The paper concludes with a discussion about the effects of enrollment uncertainty on faculty load decisions. 相似文献
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Tricia A. Seifert Kathleen M. Goodman Nathan Lindsay James D. Jorgensen Gregory C. Wolniak Ernest T. Pascarella Charles Blaich 《Research in higher education》2008,49(2):107-125
Despite scholars’ praise of liberal arts education as a model form, very little research has examined the actual impact of
liberal arts education on learning outcomes. The elaborate rhetoric and anecdotal support, long used to advance liberal arts
education as the premier type of education with value for all, is no longer sufficient. The practices and conditions that
lead to outcomes of a liberally educated student remain an empirical black box. Guided by the work of Pascarella et al. [2005, Liberal arts colleges and liberal arts education: New evidence on impacts. ASHE Higher Education Report, 31(3)], this study examined the extent to which an institutional ethos, that values student–student
and student–faculty interaction within a supportive environment characterized by high expectations for developing the intellectual
arts, manifests in the lived experiences of students and predicts the development of outcomes theoretically associated with
the liberal arts. Specifically, we investigated the construct and predictive validity of the liberal arts experience scale
relative to liberal arts outcomes. Using data from the first phase of the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education,
net of student background characteristics and institution attended, we found liberal arts experiences had a positive effect
on four of six liberal arts outcomes, including intercultural effectiveness, inclination to inquire and lifelong learning,
well-being, and leadership.
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文科实验室是时代的产物,但是在文科实验室发展的过程当中,人们并没有对实验室建设的重要性有更加明确的认识,从而导致高校文科实验室在今后的发展过程中要面临较大的困难。想要让文科实验室沿着正确的道路发展应该将传统观念进行创新,同时,还要承认高校文科实验存在一定的特殊性,要通过较为科学的管理方式进行管理,逐渐扶持文科实验室的建设与发展。 相似文献
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Jeff J. Stevenson 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(1-4):69-79
This article looks at the relative usefulness of 12 selected factors in the preparation of college administrators as seen by practicing administrators and faculty in comprehensive community colleges, four‐year liberal arts colleges, and universities. Three hundred randomly selected faculty and administrators in the state of Iowa were sent survey questionnaires. The returned surveys and research data were then analyzed in order to answer the research question. The findings suggested that graduates from programs in higher education administration may be more accepted in community colleges than in liberal arts colleges or universities. The findings also showed that university personnel perceived the major research experience as being significantly more useful than the other personnel. Nonclassroom experiences were thought to be the most useful by all personnel, with faculty experience in higher education perceived to be the most useful. This study also showed that both administrators and faculty perceived majoring in higher education administration to be less useful than any of the other 11 preparation variables. One of the recommendations of this study is that students, graduates, and professors in higher education administration programs attempt to educate the participants in higher education and the public on the strengths and uses of their programs. It was also recommended that further research is needed in the area of administrative task analysis at the different types of institutions. 相似文献
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Dr. Robert T. Blackburn Jeffery P. Bieber Janet H. Lawrence Lois Trautvetter 《Research in higher education》1991,32(4):385-413
Within the framework of cognitive motivation theory, selected personal and environmental motivational variables for faculty in eight liberal arts and science departments from community colleges, liberal arts colleges, comprehensive colleges and universities, and research universities were regressed against faculty allocation of work effort given to research, scholarship, and service. The data came from a 1988 national survey of faculty.Gender, (sociodemographic), quality of graduate school attended, career age, andrank (career); self-competence andself-efficacy regarding research, scholarship, and service andpercent time prefer to give to research, scholarship, and service (self-valuations); andinstitutional preference, consensus andsupport, andcolleague commitment to research, scholarship, and service (perception of the environment) were entered into regressions.R
2s were generally strong (.64 for liberal arts-I institutions) and significant. For all institutional types,self-valuation (self-competence and-efficacy) motivators significantly accounted for the explained variance.Sociodemographic andcareer variables did not explain appreciable amounts of variance. 相似文献
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苏冰蔚 《宁波大学学报(教育科学版)》2013,(3):95-098
随着基于信息技术的高等文科教育改革的深入,文科实验教学成为高校人才培养的重要环节。本文以新闻传播类专业实验教学准备为例,总结了高校文科实验教学的特点,探讨了文科实验准备的特征与存在的问题,最后系统论述了有效开展文科实验准备的策略。文章的上述观点对文科实验教学教师与管理技术人员的实验教学与准备具有积极的启发意义。 相似文献
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The scholarship of teaching and learning: A Special Niche for Faculty at Comprehensive Universities?
We investigated the involvement of faculty members at comprehensive universities in scholarship of teaching and learning publishing
activities in four disciplines. Compared to to their publishing rates in research-oriented journals, comprehensive university
faculty members were more involved in publishing articles and serving on editorial boards for pedagogical journals. Over the
past three decades, the relative involvement in the scholarship of teaching and learning journals by faculty members at comprehensive
universities and liberal arts colleges has increased whereas participation by faculty members at research universities has
declined. 相似文献
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This analysis is concerned with the horizontal and vertical consensus of definitions of work appropriate to accomplish the goals of university administrators and faculty, as well as the congruency of ideal (intent) and actual (action/behavior) work of faculty. Data-gathering techniques include the following: historical analysis of the university; interviews with the provost, 5 college deans, and 32 chairpersons; and a survey of 503 faculty (69% return rate). Faculty work perceived to achieve departmental goals lacked horizontal consensus, especially among chairpersons in the same college and among faculty in the same department. Vertical consensus was weak, especially between chairpersons and their faculty, and in most colleges between deans and chairpersons. Greatest incongruencies were between faculty intentions and reported actions. There was declining support for administrative goals as one moved down the hierarchical structure within the university. Perspectives were explored that account for the lack of goal consensus and the incongruency between intentions and reported actions. 相似文献
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Much of the current research on faculty vitality—including studies of faculty workload, reward structures, and morale—are focused on research universities and liberal arts colleges. Results of two surveys of faculty vitality at DePaul University, administered in 1986 and 1992, suggest that the earlier models of faculty vitality, although useful, need to be reexamined for comprehensive universities. This case study suggests that nontangible correlates, particularly institutional direction and mission articulation and their relationship to faculty workload and the reward's structure, play an important role in ensuring a balanced effort at promoting faculty vitality at comprehensive universities. 相似文献
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Shifts in the labor market require adaptive responses on the part of formal organizations. Such organizational responses are shown in changes in recruitment strategies. This study examines how departments in comprehensive colleges and universities formulate their faculty recruitment strategies and set standards for new faculty personnel. Comprehensive institutions are neither research universities nor liberal arts colleges. Even though most offer graduate degrees at the master's level in such areas as teacher training and business programs, they are predominantly devoted to undergraduate education. Lacking strong ties to distinctive beliefs and identities, these institutions have become increasingly vulnerable to environmental changes.Based on extensive fieldwork at four institutions, this paper focuses on twenty faculty searches conducted over a period of substantial changes in academic labor markets. Several common search episodes are identified.The general pattern of recruitment strategies is shaped by the rule of status competition in a prestige hierarchy: less prestigious organizations compete for institutional legitimacy by adopting the norms of more prestigious organizations. Search-related practices in these comprehensive institutions are, therefore, organized around the institutional rituals that conform to the standards of more prestigious research universities and elite liberal arts colleges. Search and recruitment practices often reflect a ritualized form of preoccupation with credentials, specialities, and procedures. Despite their initial emphasis on specific goals, those involved in the search were less concerned about search outcomes than about processes. 相似文献
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When a liberal arts college decides to include computer science as one of its academic disciplines, a number of questions arise. What is an appropriate curriculum? What sort of laboratory support does this new discipline need? How does a small liberal arts school attract, retain, and evaluate faculty in this area? Do computer science faculty become a separate department or remain joined with mathematics or some other discipline? In short, what must be done to put computer science on equal footing with mathematics and other scientific disciplines? This paper addresses these questions. 相似文献
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Dr. Lorraine T. Dorfman Karen A. Conner Jean B. Tompkins William Ward 《Research in higher education》1982,17(3):249-266
This study compares the professional activities of retired professors from liberal arts colleges, a comprehensive university, and a major research university. Results show that a large majority of faculty continue to perform professional roles and that strength of ties to colleagues and professional organizations outside the institution are correlated with professional activity at all types of institutions. Major differences among institutions are: (1) liberal arts college and research university faculty show consistency between pre- and postretirement professional activity levels, whereas comprehensive university faculty do not; (2) university faculty show higher levels of participation in a number of professional activities than do liberal arts college faculty; (3) rated importance of research or other creative work is related to professional activity for comprehensive university faculty and rated importance of consulting and university service are related to professional activity for research university faculty. 相似文献
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Many institutions require candidates for faculty positions to present a teaching demonstration as part of the interview process. To help job candidates prepare for this and to assist departments in planning how to structure this portion of the interview, we surveyed biology faculty from community and liberal arts colleges and master''s- and PhD-granting institutions concerning how their departments assess teaching potential. We also asked survey respondents to share advice on how candidates can prepare for teaching demonstrations. Here we report on the survey results and offer suggestions based on comments from respondents. 相似文献
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美国文理学院办学特色探析 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
美国文理学院是美国高等教育的一大特色。文理学院专注本科教育,秉承自由教育理念,坚持小规模办学,传承寄宿制和导师制,实行高度自治的管理。文理学院鲜明的办学特色使其在激烈的竞争中脱颖而出,成为许多年轻学子的最佳选择。 相似文献