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University Faculty and Administrator Responses to Job Strains.
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Blackburn, Robert T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1986
The relationships between job strain and several quality of life (QOL) indicators for a group of university faculty and administrators were studied. The QOL indicators were job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and health. Intervention strategies are discussed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Faculty, Health
Faculty Careers: Maturation, Demographic, and Historical Effects.
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Lawrence, Janet H.; Blackburn, Robert T. – Research in Higher Education, 1985
University of Michigan faculty members were interviewed on matters related to their careers. The data were analyzed with regard to productivity, promotion rate, and perceptions and values of faculty with respect to the weight that research, teaching, and service are given in promotion decisions. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Age Differences, Career Development, Careers
"Cloning" in Academe: Mentorship and Academic Careers.
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Blackburn, Robert T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1981
Mentor professors were surveyed with respect to their most successful "proteges" regarding scholarly production, the mentorship role, and their careers. Mentors overwhelmingly nominated as their most successful proteges those whose careers were essentially identical to their own. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Individual Characteristics, Interpersonal Relationship, Mentors
Faculty Accountability and Faculty Workload: A Preliminary Cost Analysis of Their Relationship As Revealed by PhD Productivity
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Blackburn, Robert T.; Trowbridge, Keith W. – Research in Higher Education, 1973
Descriptors: Accountability, College Faculty, Cost Effectiveness, Doctoral Degrees
Faculty Research Productivity 1972-1988: Development and Application of Constant Units of Measure.
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Bieber, Jeffery P.; Blackburn, Robert T. – Research in Higher Education, 1993
This study investigated changes in publishing opportunities by college/university faculty between 1972 and 1988 in three disciplines: biology, philosophy, and English. Changes in amount of publishing space available and numbers of individuals competing for that space indicated inflation rates for all three fields (especially biology) requiring…
Descriptors: Biology, Citation Analysis, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis
Faculty at Work: Focus on Teaching.
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Blackburn, Robert T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A study compared selected personal and environmental motivational variables in college faculty with allocation of work effort to teaching. Faculty represented the disciplines of English, chemistry, and psychology and various institution types. Self-valuation and perception of the environment motivators significantly accounted for the explained…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Psychology, College Faculty, College Instruction
Faculty at Work: Focus on Research, Scholarship, and Service.
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Blackburn, Robert T.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
A study compared selected personal and environmental motivational variables in college faculty with allocation of work effort to research, scholarship, and service. Faculty were from eight liberal arts and sciences departments in a range of institution types. For all institutional types, self-valuation motivators significantly accounted for the…
Descriptors: Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Psychology, College Faculty
Faculty Research Productivity: Some Moderators of Associated Stressors.
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Blackburn, Robert T.; Bently, Richard J. – Research in Higher Education, 1993
A study with 894 college faculty investigated the effects of certain stress variables on different kinds of faculty research activity; psychological and organizational variables thought to moderate stress; and the effects of stressors and moderators for gender, institution type, and discipline (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences)…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Environmental Influences, Faculty Publishing, Higher Education