ERIC Number: EJ735901
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Nov
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0361-0365
Faculty Entrepreneurialism and the Challenge to Undergraduate Education at Research Universities
Lee, Jenny J.; Rhoads, Robert A.
Research in Higher Education, v45 n7 p739-760 Nov 2004
This study attempts to unravel the complex relationships between faculty entrepreneurialism and teaching. Specifically, this study (1) compares the extent of entrepreneurial activities (i.e., using funds for research and consulting activity) across disciplinary fields and levels of teaching commitment and (2) examines the relative effects of faculty entrepreneurialism on commitment to teaching. Using a national database of four-year college faculty, research findings demonstrate variations of teaching commitment with respect to disciplinary fields and forms of entrepreneurial activities. More important, this study reveals rather strong negative relationships between using funds for research and teaching commitment. Such findings have important implications for policy makers, administrative leaders, and university faculty as they seek to balance the institution's instructional mission in light of the increasing trend toward entrepreneurialism.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Research Universities, Undergraduate Study, Teacher Researchers, Institutional Mission, Teaching (Occupation), Entrepreneurship, Teacher Persistence, Comparative Analysis, Intellectual Disciplines
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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