New assistant or associate professors command more money than current professors with seniority or higher rank. This faculty-pay dilemma is known as "salary compression." Salary compression occurs when colleges are pressured by the job market to pay competitive salaries to attract scholars at lower ranks. (MLW)

Investigates the degree and character of career burnout among mass communication educators, using the Maslach Burnout Inventory which conceptualizes burnout as a three-dimensional variable consisting of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced feelings of personal accomplishment. Discusses results in terms of rank and tenure, gender…

Focuses on the challenges and needs faced by early career faculty. Draws on case study interviews to point out the problems that exist for younger faculty as they struggle to attain tenure. Provides recommendations about how the system might be improved. (MJP)

Criticizes the notion that the empiricism of economics is more valid (and therefore more valuable) to the field of political science than the more subjective efforts of area studies. Specifically responds to Robert Bates's categorization of area studies as "unscientific" and unduly "humanist." Briefly discusses significant works within area…

Addresses the impacts of faculty rank and university mission (teaching vs. research) on self-reported use and intention-to-use multimedia instructional approaches in the classroom via responses to a survey of accounting educators. Findings suggest that university mission has a stronger influence than academic rank on faculty perceptions and…

The American Association of University Professors' annual survey of college and university faculty salaries, by academic rank, institution type and size, gender, and geographic region and in relation to the consumer price index, is reported. Extensive data tables track changes and percentile distributions; one table presents average salaries for…

Studied role of 4 factors in scholarly writing of tenured female faculty (n=59) who have significant publication records: personal qualities, graduate program, organizational or institutional supports, and participation in professional associations. Findings suggest that participants generally struggled to assume the role of intellectual authority…

Describes a survey of faculty and administrators at a research university that investigated faculty use of technology in teaching, motivating and inhibiting factors for participating in distance education, and understanding of policies on distance education. Presents a factor analysis of motivating and inhibiting factors and considers gender, age,…

Forty-eight African American counselor educators completed the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short Form (D. J. Weiss, R. V. Dawis, G. W. England, & L. H. Lofquist, 1967), the Racial Climate Scale (R. J. Watts & R. T. Carter, 1991), and a biodata questionnaire. Results indicated that African American counselor educators' perceptions…

This study examined the status and conditions of salaries, tenure, rank attainment, and productivity of men and women college faculty and faculty of each of five racial groups. It is based on a subset of data on 8,114 faculty members drawn from the 1992-93 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. The results, based on descriptive and multivariate…

The U.S. Department of Education has collected data on full-time instructional faculty at institutions of higher education since 1968. This report presents the results of analyses of data on salaries of full-time instructional faculty on 9- and 10-month contracts at postsecondary education institutions. The data were collected through the…

This volume presents data from the 15th annual survey of faculty salaries by discipline and rank in the nation's public colleges and universities. Three hundred and twenty nine institutions participated in the survey. Data are presented by 55 disciplines and major fields and for both institutions with and without collective bargaining. The overall…

This study assessed the professional roles and research productivity of Latino academics at four research institutions in the southwestern U.S. Research focused on the academics' general productivity, professional roles, and motivations, as well as ethnicity-specific issues. Questionnaires sent to Latino faculty at the assistant, associate, and…

The Scholars-in-the-Schools program (SIS), previously known as Humanities-in-the-Schools (HIS), is designed to improve humanities education by placing humanities scholars in residence at a middle school or high school. The scholar works with teachers and students as a resource person in a variety of ways: as a curriculum consultant; lecturer;…

Salary data for full-time faculty in 46 selected disciplines at 440 private colleges and universities are presented based on the 1985-86 National Faculty Salary Survey by Discipline and Rank in Private Colleges and Universities. Information was collected on salaries for 38,890 faculty members employed at 440 private colleges and universities.…