Research about the relative importance of faculty performance of teaching, scholarship, and service work roles in tenure and promotion decisions is reviewed and updated. Data collected from 130 deans or directors through Internet administration of the Work Role Salience Index (Green & Baskind, 2007) suggested some variation in the weighting of…

This report summarizes the findings of the Faculty Publication Project for 2000-2004 and examines the association between faculty scholarship expectations and publication productivity at the leading graduate programs. Findings suggest higher rates of faculty publication in recent years and increases in multi-authored publications and articles…

The standards of the National Association of Social Workers (2001) for culturally competent practice and the Council on Social Work Education's (2001) accreditation standards require monitoring and evaluation of the multicultural competencies of students and professional social workers. The absence of assessment instruments impedes feedback about…

This longitudinal study found that 12 of 61 doctoral faculties in social work were responsible for 43 percent of journal articles published. Their publication rates appeared to accelerate in the 1990s and correlated positively with measures of program size and longevity. When all variables were controlled, perceived academic quality of MSW…

Compared the self-reported research anxiety, computer anxiety, and research orientations of 149 full-time graduate social work, psychology, and business students at a research university. Found that social work students reported more research and computer anxiety and generally believed that research was less important to their profession that…

A study of manuscript submissions and acceptance among 509 faculty of 45 graduate social-work programs found that although faculty of all ranks made regular efforts to publish and achieve success, higher academic rank was negatively associated with frequency of manuscript submission and positively associated with acceptance. Results suggest…

Analysis of 1,349 articles in 21 social work and 193 nonsocial work journals by faculty of 45 doctoral social work programs over almost 4 years found programs' publication rates varied greatly; 42.2% averaged under 1 article per faculty member. Seven journals contained nearly 60% of the articles in social work journals; over 40% appeared in…