Examines full-time faculty in graduate departments of psychology in terms of tenure status, academic rank, and new appointments, and the relationships among these faculty characteristics. Presents data for various years and compares psychology faculty with science and engineering faculty. (Author/MJL)

Explores why higher education no longer needs complicated hierarchies in faculty titles, and proposes the elimination of the distinction between associated and full professor. (EV)

Describes a study that was conducted to assess the scholarly productivity of instructional technology (IT) faculty and to identify the publication patterns that characterize the scholarship of the field. Publication entries from the resumes of 132 IT faculty are analyzed, and basic and applied journals are identified and ranked. (two references)…

Features a profile of assistant professors who accepted their first counselor education positions in 1999 as well as their comments regarding their experience as applicants. Includes recommendations derived from the data for counselor educators, professors-in-training, and search committees. (GCP)

The first academic sabbatical was introduced at Harvard in 1880. In recent years, commercial enterprises have also identified workplace benefit programs as "sabbaticals." Benshoff and Spruill (2002), whose own study investigated the success of sabbaticals for counseling professors, also indicate an increased interest in the sabbatical's potential…

Studies conducted in the late 1980s and early 1990s reflected a gender imbalance in the accounting academy as the proportion of female professors fell far below the percentage of women accountants in practice. For a sample of doctoral-granting and nondoctoral-granting Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) institutions, the…

Gender gaps in achieved rank and salary, common indicators of objective success, often are attributed to the different family roles and responsibilities of men and women. This study tested three explanations for the different effects of family on careers: that is, choice, performance, and signaling explanations. In a sample of American doctoral…

Factors discussed include the amount of time that library faculty members devote to supervision, the interaction of the library faculty and the library administration, and the role of the library faculty in participative management. (Author/PF)

Argues that faculty status of librarians is not sufficient but must be coupled with a more democratic collegial form of library governance. (JG)

Since 1966 the librarians of the State University of New York (SUNY) have been working toward full faculty status for themselves on all 33 campuses. In that year the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Libraries recommended: library titles equivalent to existing academic titles; a range of librarians' salaries equivalent to those in academic ranks;…

Estimates show that 50 to 80 percent of questions answered by reference librarians are directional or informational. If librarians are performing tasks below their intellectual abilities, issues that could be affected include faculty status, employee morale, library cost effectiveness, and education for reference work. (Author/JAB)

This article reports on the tenure review process faced by geographers at U.S. universities from the perspectives of successful and unsuccessful candidates, a department chair, and a member of a tenure review committee. (Author/BSR)

Two status variables were examined in an academic setting through monitoring of reprint-sending behavior; requester's sex and academic ranking had no significant effect on total number of responses received. Males, however, received responses significantly faster than females, and male authors were more likely than female authors to honor…

The most frequently asked college president inaugural questions are discussed. Describes installation, marshal, mace, academic costume, and the charter, among others. (MLW)