“We know who we are”: segmentation and characterization of the academic community toward classified faculty evaluation reform in a Chinese non-research university

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyuan Liu ◽  
Jianhui Wang ◽  
Qinggen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Faculty Evaluation ◽  
Academic Community

From the Faculty Perspective: Defining, Earning, and Maintaining Legitimacy across Academia

2016 ◽  
Vol 118 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie D. Gonzales ◽  
Aimee Lapointe Terosky
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Research University ◽  
Faculty Evaluation ◽  
Academic Profession ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Faculty Preparation ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Cultural Rules

Background Research shows that the academic profession is largely held together by cultural rules and norms imparted through various socialization processes, all of which are viewed as sensible ways to orient rising professionals. In this paper, a critical perspective is assumed, as we utilized the concept legitimacy and legitimation to better understand the implications of various socialization tactics within academia. Purpose Specifically, the purpose of this paper was to study how faculty members, employed across different types of institutions, defined legitimacy and what it takes to be deemed legitimate in the context of the academic profession. Research Design A critical qualitative research design guided this study. Specifically, we collected fifty in-depth, semistructured, conceptual interviews from faculty members employed across two community colleges, two regional comprehensive universities, one liberal arts college, and one high activity research university. Data Analysis Our analysis of interview transcripts was largely guided by Saldaña's suggestions for affective, pattern, and elaborative coding. Findings We found that all faculty members, regardless of institution type, discipline, or tenure status, held ideas as to what constitutes legitimate work/legitimacy within academia. We interrogated these findings further through the lens of New Institutionalism and determined that professors spent most of their time describing professional legitimacy. Professional legitimacy seemed to be contingent on (1) research and (2) institutional type. However, faculty also described what can be understood as normative legitimacy, which is an endorsement granted when one conforms to implicit cultural rules and ideals held by any community of relevance (e.g., governmental leaders, administrators, tax payers/public). Normative legitimacy seemed to be granted to professors who presented themselves as selfless, ideal workers who could account for and maximize their productivity. Conclusions/Recommendations A number of specific policy and practice related recommendations are gleaned from this work. In terms of faculty preparation and socialization, it is imperative that faculty members acknowledge that both processes are steeped in relations of power, as they engender notions of who and what fits into academia. Several specific questions and small adjustments in terms of practice are noted in the paper. Also, in terms of faculty evaluation, a return to Boyer's work and newer iterations of Boyer's work by Henderson (2013) could be helpful.

Erratum: Identification and characterization of Corynebacterium lactis isolated from Amblyomma testudinarium of Sus scrofa in Malaysia. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 23(9), 1838–1844.

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 2086
Author(s):  
Fang Shiang Lim ◽  
Shih Keng Loong ◽  
Jing Jing Khoo ◽  
Kim Kee Tan ◽  
Nurhafiza Zainal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Sus Scrofa ◽  
Research University ◽  
One Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Grants ◽  
Agency For International Development ◽  
Amblyomma Testudinarium ◽  
Identification And Characterization

AcknowledgmentsThis study was supported in parts by the research grants from University of Malaya, under the Research University Grants (RU016-2015) and (RU005-2017), and the Malaysia One Health University Network (MyOHUN) Seed Fund Award (MY/NCO/ACT/P001/SEEDFUND) provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). 

Emergence of the Modern Research University: Harvard and M.I.T., 1945–1970

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Freeland
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Research University ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Institutional Model

Harvard and M.I.T. were ideally positioned to exploit the advantageous possibilities for development that arose after World War II. Both did so, pursuing routes that reflected their different histories, stages of development, organizational characteristics, and current priorities. Both became, in the process, contrasting versions of a modern research university, together helping to define a new institutional model for the nation’s academic community. For most universities, World War II continued the difficult circumstances of the Depression, but the wartime role of academics also fostered hopes for recognition and growth in the postwar years. This optimism prompted organized planning for institutional development well before the end of the war. As Conant put it in 1943: “The period immediately following the cessation of hostilities ... will be a time when [Harvard’s] educational house can be put in order, when changes perhaps long overdue can be made most readily.” The leaders of M.I.T. anticipated even more dramatic gains. Referring in 1944 to the Institute’s contributions to the war effort, Compton observed that “the value, effectiveness and prestige of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have never been at so high a level; this is certainly a strategic vantage point from which to initiate the next advance.” The prewar years at Harvard had left little doubt about the “changes ... long overdue” on which Conant would focus. From the beginning of his presidency, he had insisted that Harvard’s goal should not be expansion but “intensification”: the raising of intellectual standards within established programs and the reducing of concern with the social, localistic values associated with Harvard’s Brahmin traditions. The two major expressions of these policies prior to 1940 had been the efforts to tighten scholarly standards for promotion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and to attract more able undergraduates by recruiting in public and non-northeastern secondary schools. As Conant anticipated the postwar years, especially in the context of the veterans’ program, he was aware that the new popularity of higher education might support a level of growth that had not been possible during the Depression, but he continued to oppose expansion. If demand for admission increased, Conant argued in the mid-1940S, Harvard should raise standards, not increase in size.

scholarly journals Qualidade de vida: perfil de estudantes em enfermagem de uma universidade privada do município de São Paulo

2014 ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Luiz Faustino dos Santos Maia ◽  
Lucia Helena Presoto
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Private University ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
The City

Trata-se de uma investigação sobre as condições e qualidade de vida. De caráter quantitativo do tipo descritivo e exploratório, objetivou conhecer, avaliar e descrever o perfil de estudantes em enfermagem de uma universidade privada de ensino superior. Num processo de escolha aleatória foram sujeitos da pesquisa oitenta alunos de enfermagem matriculados no primeiro, segundo, terceiro e quartos anos de graduação do período matutino e noturno. Os dados foram coletados durante os meses de agosto e setembro de 2006, utilizando um questionário com quinze perguntas fechadas e objetivas, referentes à caracterização da população abrangendo vários aspectos sociodemográficos. Os dados foram analisados estatisticamente, tabulados e apresentados em tabelas. Sugere-se o incentivo na comunidade acadêmica quanto à promoção e educação em saúde. Desta forma, reduzir-se-á os indicadores de morbidade, maus hábitos e sedentarismo relacionado com a população acadêmica, futuros educadores e profissionais de saúde.Descritores: Qualidade de Vida, Estudantes, Enfermagem. Quality of life: profile of nursing students in a private university in the city of São PauloAbstract: This is a research about the conditions and quality of life. A quantitative, descriptive, and exploratory study aimed to know, evaluate and describe the profile of nursing students in a private university of higher education. In a process of random choice were the research subjects eighty nursing students enrolled in the first, second, third and fourth years of graduation in the morning and evening. The data were collected during the months of august and september 2006, using a questionnaire with 15 questions closed and objective, relating to the characterization of the population covering several sociodemographic aspects. The data were statistically analyzed, tabulated and presented in tables. It is suggested the incentive in the academic community regarding the promotion and education in health. This way, it will reduce the indicators of morbidity, bad habits and sedentary lifestyle related to population academic, future educators and health professionals.Descriptors: Quality of Life, Students, Nursing. Calidad de vida: el perfil de los estudiantes de enfermería en una universidad privada en la ciudad de São PauloResumen: Se trata de una investigación acerca de las condiciones y calidad de vida. Una valoración cuantitativa y estudio descriptivo y exploratorio destinado a conocer, evaluar y describir el perfil de los estudiantes de enfermería en una universidad privada de educación superior. En un proceso de selección aleatoria eran los sujetos de la investigación de enfermería 80 estudiantes matriculados en el primer, segundo, tercer y cuarto años de graduación en la mañana y en la noche. Los datos fueron recopilados durante los meses de agosto y septiembre de 2006, utilizando un cuestionario con 15 preguntas cerradas y objetivo, relativas a la caracterización de la población que cubre varios aspectos sociodemográficos. Los datos fueron analizados estadísticamente, tabulados y presentados en tablas. Se sugiere el incentivo en la comunidad académica sobre la promoción y educación en salud. De esta manera, reducirá los indicadores de morbilidad, malos hábitos y estilo de vida sedentario relativos a la población académica, los futuros educadores y profesionales de la salud.Descriptores: Calidad de Vida, Estudiantes, Enfermería.

scholarly journals Towards Research University through Ambidexterity Practice: A Lecturer Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Retno Kusumastuti ◽  
Nurul Safitri ◽  
Prima Nurita Rusmaningsih
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Research University ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Small Medium Enterprises ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The University

The concept of ambidexterity in organization theory refers to an organization's ability to innovate in explorative manners (Duncan, 1980). Ambidexterity can be identified into structural ambidexterity and contextual ambidexterity (Tushman, O'Reilly, 1990). In small medium enterprises, for example, innovation activities take contextual form since most owners act both as entrepreneurs and business leaders (Kusumastuti, et.al., 2015), while in established corporations innovation activities generally occur in structural form. Thus research takes academic institution as its locus, within which innovation activities are mandatory for all civitas academica (academic community). The study uses mixed method for collecting data through questionnaires and in-depth interviews. It shows that university has the capacity to provide context in institutional support and remuneration system as a means stimulate lecturers and researchers to be more innovative. The scheme also provided structure at the university and faculty level as tools to coordinate and integrate research projects. The organizational learning at the individual level reflects the pattern of contextual ambidexterity process.

Whose Problem is It? Gender Differences in Faculty Thinking about Campus Service

2016 ◽  
Vol 118 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Kerryann O'Meara
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
Dominant Pattern ◽  
Service Data ◽  
Levels Of Service ◽  
Research Assistants ◽  
Background Context

Background/Context Empirical evidence suggests women faculty spend more time in campus service than men, which perpetuates inequality between men and women because research is valued more than service in academic reward systems, especially at research universities. Purpose/Focus of Study In this study I apply insights from research on gender inequality to examine whether women and men faculty at a research university were thinking about their campus service differently. I add to the literature by (1) making faculty thinking about campus service visible, (2) examining how this thinking is constrained by gender, and the gendered nature of organizations, and (3) revealing how individualistic and cosmopolitan orientations, and communal and local orientations appear together in faculty thinking about campus service. Research Design My research assistants and I conducted 60–75 minute-long, semistruc-tured interviews with 88 faculty including 34 men and 54 women on their work environment experiences. Interview questions focused on choices that faculty had made to emphasize different kinds of work (teaching, research, service), balance work priorities, and succeed. Findings/Results Overall, more women framed campus service in communal terms and expressed local orientations toward campus service; more men positioned service as a campus problem, and noted their own interests to avoid or minimize involvement in campus service so as not to hurt their career. In a smaller group of cases, (e.g., four men and five women) the faculty member expressed the dominant pattern for the other gender; however, even in these cases participants provided examples of the dominant pattern for their gender as well. In all cases, women and men were influenced by gendered ways of thinking about work, and gendered organizational practices that permeated their socialization and work environments. Conclusions/Recommendations Findings suggest that interventions are needed to affect thinking about campus service within university environments, as thinking shapes gendered divisions of labor. Sharing campus service data transparently, developing department consensus about appropriate levels of service contributions, and developing a sense of collective ownership for academic programs are examples of organizing practices that could generate change toward more gender neutral divisions of labor. Addressing the complex issue of inequality in campus service is not only about counting the numbers of service activities, although this is important. It is also critical to understand how faculty may be approaching the issue, the forces shaping their thinking, and the consequences of their thinking for individual careers and the future of the academic community.

scholarly journals Research travel and disciplinary identities in the University of Cambridge, 1885–1955

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN ◽  
HEIKE JÖNS
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Research University ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Field Laboratory ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

AbstractThis article considers the role of overseas academic travel in the development of the modern research university, with particular reference to the University of Cambridge from the 1880s to the 1950s. The Cambridge academic community, relatively sedentary at the beginning of this period, became progressively more mobile and globalized through the early twentieth century, facilitated by regular research sabbaticals. The culture of research travel diffused at varying rates, and with differing consequences, across the arts and humanities and the field, laboratory and theoretical sciences, reshaping disciplinary identities and practices in the process. The nature of research travel also changed as the genteel scholarly excursion was replaced by the purposeful, output-orientated expedition.

scholarly journals Qualidade de vida: perfil de estudantes em enfermagem de uma universidade privada do município de São Paulo

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Luiz Faustino dos Santos Maia ◽  
Lucia Helena Presoto
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Private University ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Calidad De Vida ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive ◽  
The City

Trata-se de uma investigação sobre as condições e qualidade de vida. De caráter quantitativo do tipo descritivo e exploratório, objetivou conhecer, avaliar e descrever o perfil de estudantes em enfermagem de uma universidade privada de ensino superior. Num processo de escolha aleatória foram sujeitos da pesquisa oitenta alunos de enfermagem matriculados no primeiro, segundo, terceiro e quartos anos de graduação do período matutino e noturno. Os dados foram coletados durante os meses de agosto e setembro de 2006, utilizando um questionário com quinze perguntas fechadas e objetivas, referentes à caracterização da população abrangendo vários aspectos sociodemográficos. Os dados foram analisados estatisticamente, tabulados e apresentados em tabelas. Sugere-se o incentivo na comunidade acadêmica quanto à promoção e educação em saúde. Desta forma, reduzir-se-á os indicadores de morbidade, maus hábitos e sedentarismo relacionado com a população acadêmica, futuros educadores e profissionais de saúde.Descritores: Qualidade de Vida, Estudantes, Enfermagem. Quality of life: profile of nursing students in a private university in the city of São PauloAbstract: This is a research about the conditions and quality of life. A quantitative, descriptive, and exploratory study aimed to know, evaluate and describe the profile of nursing students in a private university of higher education. In a process of random choice were the research subjects eighty nursing students enrolled in the first, second, third and fourth years of graduation in the morning and evening. The data were collected during the months of august and september 2006, using a questionnaire with 15 questions closed and objective, relating to the characterization of the population covering several sociodemographic aspects. The data were statistically analyzed, tabulated and presented in tables. It is suggested the incentive in the academic community regarding the promotion and education in health. This way, it will reduce the indicators of morbidity, bad habits and sedentary lifestyle related to population academic, future educators and health professionals.Descriptors: Quality of Life, Students, Nursing. Calidad de vida: el perfil de los estudiantes de enfermería en una universidad privada en la ciudad de São PauloResumen: Se trata de una investigación acerca de las condiciones y calidad de vida. Una valoración cuantitativa y estudio descriptivo y exploratorio destinado a conocer, evaluar y describir el perfil de los estudiantes de enfermería en una universidad privada de educación superior. En un proceso de selección aleatoria eran los sujetos de la investigación de enfermería 80 estudiantes matriculados en el primer, segundo, tercer y cuarto años de graduación en la mañana y en la noche. Los datos fueron recopilados durante los meses de agosto y septiembre de 2006, utilizando un cuestionario con 15 preguntas cerradas y objetivo, relativas a la caracterización de la población que cubre varios aspectos sociodemográficos. Los datos fueron analizados estadísticamente, tabulados y presentados en tablas. Se sugiere el incentivo en la comunidad académica sobre la promoción y educación en salud. De esta manera, reducirá los indicadores de morbilidad, malos hábitos y estilo de vida sedentario relativos a la población académica, los futuros educadores y profesionales de la salud.Descriptores: Calidad de Vida, Estudiantes, Enfermería.

scholarly journals Education and Its Institutions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Purvis
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Research University ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Ecclesiastical Authority ◽  
Thought Patterns ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Christian Thought

For theological education, the nineteenth century was one of the most creative and tumultuous periods in the history of Christian thought. Patterns of both deconfessionalization and theological renewal, changes in Church–state relations, the rise of the modern research university in Berlin, and new fields like religious studies all contributed to the displacement of theology as the ‘queen of the sciences’ in the wake of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic era. This chapter examines some of the major developments, including the institutionalization of Protestant theology in the modern research university, key issues confronting Catholic scholarship, and the inception of the seminary in North America. Finally, it discusses the challenges modern academic theology faced in its increasing appeal to the political community of the modern nation-state and the academic community of science, rather than Christianity’s historic creeds, confessions, and traditions of ecclesiastical authority.

scholarly journals Didactic Strategies to Promote Competencies in Sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Tejedor ◽  
Jordi Segalàs ◽  
Ángela Barrón ◽  
Mónica Fernández-Morilla ◽  
M. Fuertes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Research University ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Didactic Strategies

Higher education is a principal agent for addressing the sustainable development goals proposed by the 2030 Agenda, because of its key mission of knowledge generation, teaching and social innovation for sustainability. In order to achieve this, higher education needs to integrate transversally the values of sustainability in the way of developing the field of management, as well as research, university life and, of course, teaching. This paper focuses on teaching, and more specifically on the didactic strategies considered most relevant for training in sustainability competencies in college students, according to the guidelines commonly accepted by the international academic community. Through collaborative work among experts from six Spanish universities taking part in the EDINSOST project (education and social innovation for sustainability), funded by the Spanish R&D+i Program, in this paper the role of five active learning strategies (service learning, problem-based learning, project-oriented learning, simulation games and case studies) in education for sustainability are reviewed, and a systematic approach of their implementation in higher education settings is presented. The results provide a synthesis of their objectives, foundations, and stages of application (planning, implementation, and learning assessment), which can be used as valuable guidelines for teachers.

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