Describes the activities of the Advisory Committee on Research in promoting research by librarians at Ohio State University. (PF)

This report presents information from the Winter 2005-06 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) web-based data collection. Tabulations represent data requested from all postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV federal student financial aid programs. The tables in this publication include data on the number of staff…

Race matters in the classroom when you are a minority female faculty member. This chapter discusses the emergence of the adaptive female academic of color who, while teaching in several countries, balances a happy work and family life. (Contains 3 notes.)

This chapter explores identity negotiation by women of color in academe at a predominantly white institution. The author discusses use of the title "doctor" as a form of address to manage interactions with graduate students in the college classroom, and the difficulties associated with negotiating and balancing these diverse and complex identities…

The concurrent development of the professional organization for librarians of the State University of New York and the union representing them is traced, and the relations between the two are discussed. (Author/PF)

Presents the results of a survey of collective bargaining in academic libraries. (PF)

ANALYZING SALARY DATA RECEIVED FROM 57 PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES IN WHICH FACULTY MEMBERS DO NOT HAVE ACADEMIC RANKS, COMMITTEE Z OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS FOUND THAT (1) IN ADVANCED CAREER STAGES, AVERAGE SALARY LEVELS AT LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES WERE AT LEAST $1,600 HIGHER THAN THE EQUIVALENT AVERAGES IN THE JUNIOR COLLEGES,…

This article presents a brief history of the movement for faculty status and equality, and discusses some of the problems and increased demands on professional staff as well as the advantages and additional benefits. (JAB)

An annotated bibliography on faculty status for academic librarians is presented. (225 references) (RS)

A farce in one scene aimed as a satirical response to the argument favoring faculty rank for librarians. (AB)

The Commission regularly conducts a study on faculty salaries in California's public universities as compared with faculty salaries at comparable institutions. This study presents estimates of the percentage changes in faculty salaries that would enable California faculty to attain parity with their comparison groups in the coming fiscal year. The…

A paucity of literature focuses on the experiences of early career faculty (pre-tenure) who are practiced education professionals and who choose higher education as a second career. This exploratory, qualitative study examined the perceptions of former education professionals' integration into academic responsibilities, connections to and…

This article presents the case of of Martin Zelnik v. Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) et al. and the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on the case. Zelnik served on the faculty of FIT from 1969 to 1999, retiring as a full professor of interior design. Zelnik applied for an emeritus status but was denied by FIT. The…

This paper takes a specific university Department of Romance Languages as a case study to examine how the measures it adopted in view of increasing enrollment in Spanish in the nineties coincide with the recommendations in the MLA's 2007 report; it also examines how they have fared after some 12 years of implementation, advances explanations for…

Why do some Ph.D.'s languish in positions with little authority, and what does educational background have to do with it? Hypotheses predicted that life scientists with Ph.D.'s from elite programs would be the most likely, those from middle-ranked programs the next most likely, and those from lower ranked programs the least likely to achieve…