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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Normative Structure of Community College Teaching: A Marker of Professionalism.
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Bayer, Alan E.; Braxton, John M. – Journal of Higher Education, 1998
A study investigated the influence of academic discipline (biology, mathematics, psychology, history), gender, age, highest degree earned, and administrative experience on the espousal of community college teaching norms held by 265 community college faculty. Results indicate gender, discipline, and professional experience exert statistically…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Biology, College Administration
Career Age and Research-Professional Activities of Academic Scientists. Tests of Alternative Nonlinear Models and Some Implications for Higher Education Faculty Policies
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Bayer, Alan E.; Dutton, Jeffrey E. – Journal of Higher Education, 1977
Six alternative theoretical models are employed to determine the relationship between age and several performance and activity variables for a national sample of doctorate faculty members in 7 selected scientific disciplines. The findings indicate that "steady-state staffing" policies should continue to recognize individual differences and not be…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Age, Higher Education, Job Layoff
Trends in Attitudes on Political, Social, and Collegiate Issues Among College Students
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Bayer, Alan E.; Dutton, Jeffrey E. – Journal of Higher Education, 1976
A comparative historical assessment, based on annual national surveys of new college students since the mid-1960s, fails to support the popular characterization of recent college students as being more apathetic and more conservative than their predecessors. There has been a trend away from both extremes in political identification. (Editor/JT)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Higher Education, History
Faculty Composition, Institutional Structure, and Students' College Environment
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Bayer, Alan E. – Journal of Higher Education, 1975
In a study focusing on the impact of faculty attributes on the college environment each of several sets of variables--measuring aggregate student characteristics, institutional structural characteristics, and aggregate faculty characteristics--proved to have high correlations with students' assessments of the degree of their institution's climate…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Environment, College Students, Educational Research
Career Publication Patterns and Collaborative "Styles" in American Academic Science.
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Bayer, Alan E. – Journal of Higher Education, 1991
The challenges to academic decision makers resulting from the growing practice of faculty collaboration on publications are discussed. A 25-year publication history of authorship placement (first-named, second-named of 2, or latter-named of several) by 150 university chemists is analyzed to derive a typology for evaluation of faculty performance,…
Descriptors: Authors, Careers, Chemistry, College Faculty
Perceptions of Research Misconduct and an Analysis of Their Correlates.
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Braxton, John M.; Bayer, Alan E. – Journal of Higher Education, 1994
A survey of 334 biochemists identified 5 patterns of attitudes and beliefs about taking action for scientific misconduct: (1) reputational harm, (2) sanction criteria, (3) whistleblower stigmatization, (4) professional etiquette, and (5) ideological desensitization. Influences of intraprofessional status, departmental cohesion, institutional…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Beliefs, Biochemistry, Fraud