Many librarians today are concerned with obtaining faculty status. This report supports this idea by critically analyzing the work of several writers who do not accept or understand the economic and professional reasons for desiring status. (21 references) (DH)

Reviews two ERIC documents on discrimination against women throughout academia, by college English departments, in literary works, and in literary criticism. (AN)

Offers a case for the graduate assistant as superior composition teacher to the assistant professor. (RL)

Describes application of a faculty salary model at Portland State University (Oregon) in which faculty rank is endogenous to data on 351 faculty, and compares results with those obtained from a conventional specification that treats rank as exogenous. The primary consequence of endogenizing rank was to disentangle the confounding effects of rank…

This study surveyed approximately 500 faculty across different disciplines from over 100 four- year colleges and universities in the U.S. The primary purpose of the study was to provide some empirical data on the general job satisfaction and pay satisfaction levels of faculty by type of academic discipline and by geographic region. The possible…

It's not hard to understand why college and university professors might worry about trends in faculty compensation. It may be more difficult, however, to see why those outside higher education should share this concern. But they should. In 2005-06, average faculty salaries increased by less than the inflation rate for the second consecutive year,…

Researchers from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) surveyed faculty members from 10 academic research libraries to learn about scholarly publishing activities, attitudes, and policies. Areas of special interest included the effect of publishers' intellectual property policies and institutional promotion and tenure processes on library…

Every year, U.S. News and World Report (USNEWS) creates a stir among academics and the public by publishing its ranking of universities and various departments within those universities. Although members of the public rely on the USNEWS rankings when making their academic choices, psychologists and other academics tend to rely on the National…

Higher education research stands at a kind of half-way house. At present, it is highly directed by Government research priorities. Yet the Government's ambition is to create a much more deregulated system, with self-created winners and losers. Tom Clark suggests a different starting-point. All higher education institutions generate research, and…

This bibliography lists 130 journal articles, reports, and monographs that discuss academic and/or faculty status for librarians in colleges and universities. Published between 1953 and 1991, individual items include faculty status guidelines and standards as well as information on appointments, tenure, and promotion. Some ERIC documents are…

State college librarians in Pennsylvania have had faculty status for the last 50 years, but collective bargaining has enlarged the meaning of the term. (Author)