This article describes a course taught by the author, Training in the Professoriate, aimed at educating graduate students and new faculty about the many facets of a successful faculty member. In this course he learned that despite 6-10 years of post-secondary education, students had many gaps in their knowledge of and misunderstandings about the…

Motives related to developing and adopting innovations were the focus of a three-year study of 45 federally funded programs. Career-related motives were prominent but not exploitative and appeared to accelerate the adoption or development process. Results seem to show that too little or too much opportunism is counterproductive. (MT)

The following characteristics of a career ladder for vocational educators were identified by a Delphi panel: inclusion of secondary, adult, nondegreed, and degreed teachers and acceptance of industry-sponsored training as qualification for advancement. Subject-specific tests, enrollments, student job placement, and occupational experience were not…

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) recently commissioned a study to review the research that finds liberal bias run amok in academe. Believing that the AFT is not a dispassionate observer of this debate, this article provides "The Chronicle of Higher Education's" survey of the genre. The studies reviewed include: (1) "Political Bias in the…

Job satisfaction is an important issue, but remains a complex one as it is difficult to measure. A wide range of factors such as the working environment, its manner of organisation, demography and individual circumstances, etc., can substantially affect the level of job satisfaction attained by individuals. Job satisfaction and the teaching…

The author analyzes results received from a survey on teacher promotion. The criteria for promotion and the means of re-evaluation of the criteria are discussed and listed in terms of importance. (MS)

Explanations for poor educational experiences and results for Australian Indigenous school students have, to a great extent, focused on intended or conscious acts or omissions. This paper adopts an analysis based on the legislation prohibiting indirect racial discrimination. Using the elements of the legislation and case law it argues that…

At a time when, nationally, community colleges are increasing their reliance on contingent faculty, and nonacademics are increasingly attacking the tenure system, some community colleges--like Bronx Community College, City University of New York--continue to follow the traditions of shared governance. The collective bargaining unit at CUNY that…

In light of the tenure and promotion needs of junior faculty to demonstrate high levels of scholarship, achieve strong publication records, and develop successful proposals for extramural funding, this article explores the impact of providing a structure and a process for mentoring education faculty toward the attainment of tenure and promotion…

A follow-up study of 86 teachers 13 years after graduation from a teacher education program was made in order to examine possible correlations between preadmission/in-training factors and survival and career advancement. Findings are presented. (MT)

A sound faculty promotion and tenure system should consistently define, recognize, and impartially reward excellence for professional contributions. (Editor)

College faculty face the ongoing dilemma of balancing the professional emphasis on student learning with the administrative task of documenting student performance related to reappointment, promotion, and tenure. As tools in the undergraduate and graduate programs of an institution of higher learning, concept maps provide faculty with interesting…

Expresses reservations about the model for assessing creative activities in evaluating teachers for promotion. (PD)

Identifies ways in which arts administrators can prepare their artist-teachers for the process of tenure and promotion. (PD)

Argues that educators need to acknowledge how the material interests of part-time and adjunct teachers, graduate assistants, tenure-stream faculty, and administrators can come into conflict in composition in order to negotiate fairly among them. Discusses how the culture of academic professionalism militates against such a consciousness, and…