scholarly journals Training the Next Generation of Teaching Professors: A Comparative Study of Ph.D. Programs in Political Science

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (03) ◽  
pp. 515-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ishiyama ◽  
Tom Miles ◽  
Christine Balarezo
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
College Teaching ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Graduate Curricula ◽  
The University ◽  
Model Programs

AbstractIn this article, we investigate the graduate curricula of political science programs and 122 Ph.D.-granting political science programs in the United States and how they seek to prepare political science teachers. We first investigate whether the department offers a dedicated political science course at the graduate level on college teaching, and whether the presence of this class correlates with the size of the department, the size of the university, the ranking of the department, and so on. We find that whether a program offers a graduate course on teaching is inversely related to the research productivity of a department, and that departments at public institutions are more likely to offer such courses than are departments at private institutions. Second, we conduct content analysis of a sample of syllabi from departments that offer such courses to ascertain the kinds of topics that are covered. Finally, we briefly describe some model programs that seek to prepare graduate students for teaching careers that integrate graduate student teacher training throughout the Ph.D. program.

The Benefits of an Intersectional Approach to Violence Against Women in Indigenous Communities

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tearney Johnston-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Private Enterprise ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The University

<div class="page" title="Page 3"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Tearney recently graduated from the University of Waterloo’s Honours Arts and Business Co-op program, where she studied Legal Studies and Political Science. Throughout her studies, she developed her passion for legal analyses in the context of policy development and reform. In the academic sphere, she geared her focus towards feminist legal issues, and specifically those pertaining to prejudices against women. As she moves on to begin her Juris Doctor (JD) studies this fall, she plans to use her knowledge of the legal framework and the necessary cooperation between public-private enterprise, to assist in future consultations between industry and public institutions. </span></p></div></div></div>

The Politics of American Political Scientists

1971 ◽  
Vol 4 (02) ◽  
pp. 135-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Everett Carll Ladd ◽  
Seymour Martin Lipset
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
The United States ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Views ◽  
General Recognition ◽  
The University

At the heart of the debates which have resounded around political science these past few years are charges and countercharges as to the “politics” of the contenders. Terms likeconservative, liberalandradical areno longer reserved for analysis of positions in the larger society; they have become part of the regular vocabulary with which political scientists evaluate their colleagues. This increase in visible and self-conscious political dissensus extends, of course, throughout the university, but it has left a special mark on political science and the other social sciences where the issues and objects of political disagreement are so enmeshed with the regular subject matter of the discipline.In spite of all of the discussion, and the now seemingly general recognition that the politics of members of the profession has a lot to do with its development and contributions, we still don't have very much firm information on the distribution of political views among the approximately 6,000 faculty members regularly engaged in the teaching of political science in the United States. There have been a number of studies, of course, of party identification and voting behavior, showing political science to be one of the most Democratic fields in academe.

scholarly journals Determinants of Political Science Faculty Salaries at the University of California

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (04) ◽  
pp. 719-727
Author(s):  
Bernard Grofman
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Full Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Science Faculty ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Faculty Salaries ◽  
Citation Counts ◽  
The University

Combining salary data for permanent non-emeritus faculty at seven departments of political science within the University of California system with lifetime citation counts and other individual-level data from the Masuoka, Grofman, and Feld (2007a) study of faculty at Ph.D.-granting political science departments in the United States, I analyze determinants of faculty salaries. For the full data set the main finding are that (1) base salaries of UC political science faculty are slightly more strongly correlated to citation rates (annualized or total lifetime citations) as a measure of research visibility than they are to seniority measured by years since receipt of the Ph.D.; and (2) that gender differences and subfield differences in salary essentially vanish once I take into account both year of Ph.D. and research visibility (as measured by annualized citation counts), while gender inequities would appear to exist if I did not control for both variables.

Benjamin Akzin: A Tribute

1978 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
Yehezkel Dror
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Department Head ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Hebrew University ◽  
Hans Kelsen ◽  
The University

Benjamin Akzin is distinguished by a unique combination of qualities, qualifications and experiences—on the basis of which he has made and continues to make unusual contributions both to scientific knowledge and to murky political realities.A short resumé of his career may give some indication of its wide scope and variety. But no such list can do justice to a man of Professor Akzin's stature whose personality has so many facets. He has lived for extended periods in a number of countries, including Israel, Poland, France, Austria, England and the United States. He studied at the University of Vienna, the Sorbonne and Harvard University, receiving three doctorates in law and political science. He has combined an academic life with a life of active politics. His political activities have included serving as Foreign Secretary of the Revisionist movement under Jabotinsky, and in senior professional staff positions, such as in the service of the United States Congress, political functions in the Zionist movement, both in Washington and New York. His academic positions range from being an assistant to Hans Kelsen, to building up the Faculty of Law and the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University, as Dean and Department Head of these faculties respectively, and Haifa University, as its President.

George Albro Warp

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (04) ◽  
pp. 789-790
Author(s):  
James E. Jernberg
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Service To Others ◽  
The University

A life of service to others ended on March 26, 2009, when professor emeritus George A. Warp of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota passed away at age 95. George was born on June 12, 1913, in Northfield, Ohio, and graduated from Bedford High School in Ohio. Prior to being associated with the University of Minnesota for the past 60 years, he graduated from Oberlin College, Case Western University, and Columbia University, earning degrees in political science, public administration, international administration, as well as law. George served briefly as a political science faculty member at the University of Minnesota, where he met and married his late wife, Lois, in 1940 before entering the U.S. Navy following the entry of the United States into World War II. His service in the Pacific theater led to his postwar appointment as a civilian advisor under General MacArthur in Japan from 1946–1948. Upon completion of that assignment, George returned to the University of Minnesota in 1948 as a professor of political science and served first as associate director and then director of the graduate program in public administration in the department's Public Administration Center until 1965 when the center became a self-standing unit of the College of Liberal Arts. He remained director through 1968 when the center was succeeded by the School of Public Affairs and recreated as the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs in 1978 as a collegiate unit named as a memorial honoring the late vice president and Minnesota's senator. George served as a professor and chair of graduate admissions until his retirement in 1982.

scholarly journals STANLEY V. ANDERSON

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (01) ◽  
pp. 164-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Moore
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The Political ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Science Faculty ◽  
The University ◽  
Civic Institutions

Stan Anderson died unexpectedly while out for an afternoon walk on May 26, 2009. If I set out to design a model civil society, Stan would be my model citizen. At every nexus in the life of a community—family, friends, workplace, and civic institutions—Stan's instincts were to care and to contribute. For 30 years a member of the political science faculty at the Santa Barbara campus of the University of California, he was a leading authority on, and advocate for, American applications of the (Scandinavian) office of ombudsman. If that term for an official who handles citizens' complaints is no longer foreign in the United States, it is largely because of Stan Anderson.

scholarly journals Student motivation of the Surgeon Dentist Major of the Veracruz-Boca del Río Area to Study a Postgraduate Program: A Comparative Study

2019 ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Aura Leonora Mora-Sánchez ◽  
Laura Roesch-Ramos ◽  
Flora Moreno-Marin ◽  
Antonio De Jesús Zapién-Uscanga
Keyword(s):  
Student Motivation ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
Del Rio ◽  
The University

Objectives: The objective that we intend to reach is to diagnose the motivation that our students of the last semesters of the Dental Surgeon Major of Veracruz-Boca del Río have to continue with postgraduate or specialty studies. Find out causes and factors that arouse this interest of both students of public institutions such as UV and private institutions such as CME and UVM. Methodology: Elaborate questionnaires that address the sociodemographic factors of each one; interviews with a small group of students to learn first-hand what their opinion is about postgraduate studies inside or outside the university, Likert scales to know the attitude of the students regarding the importance of doing postgraduate studies. Contribution: Despite comparing two private universities with a public one, there is no significant difference in terms of motivation to study a postgraduate program. However, it is interesting to know what the study shows the concern of the economic factor, the disinformation they have of the specialties, the little information provided from their respective institutions as well as not giving the necessary importance to be a specialist in a specific area to provide better patient care.

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