scholarly journals The rationality of decisions in the university professors’ inter-professional transitions

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-123
Author(s):  
ELZA FÁTIMA ROSA VELOSO ◽  
JOEL SOUZA DUTRA ◽  
RODRIGO CUNHA DA SILVA ◽  
LEONARDO NELMI TREVISAN
Keyword(s):  
University Professors ◽  
Professional Transitions ◽  
The University

Resumo O estudo apresentado neste artigo teve como objetivo analisar a racionalidade das decisões tomadas por professores universitários, em sua transição de outras profissões para a carreira docente. Foram analisados 357 respondentes, que consideram ter mudado de profissão na época em que decidiram seguir a carreira de docentes de nível superior. Quatro hipóteses foram avaliadas, relacionando a influência da profissão anterior, dos impulsionadores da transição, dos atributos da transição e dos recursos acionados pelo indivíduo sobre a racionalidade de suas decisões. Os resultados mostraram que os atributos e os recursos influenciam tanto as decisões racionais como as que extrapolam a racionalidade; a menor carga de trabalho na profissão atual permite que a pessoa identifique mais positivamente os atributos da transição que viveu; a percepção da incerteza na profissão anterior leva a decisões mais emocionais e mais sujeitas a variações contextuais. De forma geral, embora os estudos atuais considerem fortemente a emoção no processo decisório, para evitar frustrações futuras, é importante equilibrar a racionalidade e a subjetividade nas decisões de carreira.

scholarly journals Is remote and distance teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic related to the university professors’ weight gain, body mass index changes, hearing complaints, and self-perception of voice?

Revista CEFAC ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Lozza de Moraes Marchiori ◽  
Glória de Moraes Marchiori ◽  
Matheus Lindofer Rodrigues ◽  
Priscila Carlos ◽  
Nicoli Meurer Cordova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Index Changes ◽  
The University ◽  
Gain Body Mass

The Efficiency Of Higher Education Institutions: Evaluation And Management Of Managers

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olesia Tomchuk ◽  
Viktoriia Tserklevych ◽  
Olena Hurman ◽  
Valentin Petrenko ◽  
Kateryna Chymosh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Key Performance Indicators ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Management Functions ◽  
The University

The article discusses the potential opportunities for leaders of higher education to monitor and implement development management functions using a system of key performance indicators, which is often used by various business entities. The authors adapted it to the needs of higher education institutions, integrating them with their characteristics.The formation of a system of key performance indicators in the article is disclosed from the point of view of improving the management system and motivation of the management and teaching staff of higher education. Approbation of the proposed methodology was implemented in the Institution of Higher Education, where it showed its effectiveness. The new system allowed the university professors to influence directly on the bonus part of income through their own work and efficiency.

“Should I Go to Ireland or Mexico?”

2018 ◽  
pp. 1868-1885
Author(s):  
Scott L. Roberts ◽  
Kristina Rouech
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
University Professors ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
Further Development

This chapter presents and discusses the experience of two university professors' participation in two different study abroad programs. Within the first two years of employment at the university, one professor went to Oaxaca and the other went to Ireland with groups of pre-student teachers. The chapter discusses previous literature and the impact of study abroad programs on teacher education, program basics from the authors' university, the authors' personal experiences travelling with students for the first time, commonalities and differences among the two programs, benefits from their experiences, and ideas for further development of effective study abroad programs for education students.

From Digital Distraction to Digital Motivation

2022 ◽  
pp. 205-222
Author(s):  
María A. Pérez-Juárez ◽  
Javier M. Aguiar-Pérez ◽  
Javier Del-Pozo-Velázquez ◽  
Miguel Alonso-Felipe ◽  
Saúl Rozada-Raneros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Academic Activity ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
University Classrooms ◽  
Student Instructor

The presence of technology on college campuses has increased rapidly in recent years. Students come to the classroom with a variety of technological devices including smart phones, tablets, or laptops and use them during academic activity. For this reason, there are many researchers who, in recent times, have been interested in the problems derived from digital distraction in higher education. In many cases, researchers have conducted studies and surveys to obtain first-hand information from the protagonists, that is, from university professors and students. Despite the efforts, there are many questions that still remain unanswered. The authors are aware of the enormous challenge that the use of technology poses in the university classrooms and want to delve into the causes and consequences of student digital distraction and the strategies that can be used by instructors to curb student digital distraction without deteriorating student-instructor rapport in the context of higher education.

scholarly journals Affordable Rotating Fluid Demonstrations for Geoscience Education: The DIYnamics Project

2018 ◽  
Vol 99 (12) ◽  
pp. 2529-2538
Author(s):  
Spencer A. Hill ◽  
Juan M. Lora ◽  
Norris Khoo ◽  
Sean P. Faulk ◽  
Jonathan M. Aurnou
Keyword(s):  
Science Teachers ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Baroclinic Instability ◽  
Science Outreach ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Public Science ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
K 12 ◽  
University Course ◽  
The University

AbstractDemonstrations using rotating tanks of fluid can help demystify otherwise counterintuitive behaviors of atmospheric, oceanic, and planetary interior fluid motions. But the expense and complicated assembly of existing rotating table platforms limit their appeal for many schools, especially those below the university level. Here, we introduce Do-It-Yourself Dynamics (DIYnamics), a project developing extremely low-cost rotating tank platforms and accompanying teaching materials. The devices can be assembled in a few minutes from household items, all available for purchase online. Ordering, assembly, and operation instructions are available on the DIYnamics website. Videos using these and other rotating tables to teach specific concepts such as baroclinic instability are available on the DIYnamics YouTube channel—including some in Spanish. The devices, lesson plans, and demonstrations have been successfully piloted at multiple middle schools, in a university course, and at public science outreach events. These uses to date convince us of the DIYnamics materials’ pedagogical value for instructors from well-versed university professors to K–12 science teachers with little background in fluid dynamics.

scholarly journals Hector Munro Macdonald, 1865-1935

1935 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 550-558
Keyword(s):  
Royal Academy ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
University Professors ◽  
The University

Hector Munro Macdonald was born in Edinburgh in 1865, the son of Donald MacDonald, originally of Kiltearn, Ross-shire, and his wife Annie, daughter of Hector Munro of Kiltearn. Hector’s earliest education was in Edinburgh, but after the removal of his parents to Fearn, in Easter Ross, he went to school there, and afterwards to the Royal Academy, Tain, Old Aberdeen Grammar School, and the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated in 1886 with First-Class Honours in Mathematics and won a Fullerton Scholarship. Of the Aberdeen honours graduates in Arts of his year—twenty-two in all—six went on to Oxford or Cambridge, and of these, four ultimately became Fellows or University Professors. Macdonald proceeded to Clare College, Cambridge, taking the Mathematical Tripos in 1889. The list of Wranglers was one of considerable distinction ; Sir Gilbert Walker was senior, Sir Frank Dyson second, Macdonald fourth, and A. S. Ramsey (President of Magdalene) sixth. He was elected to a fellowship at Clare in 1890, and in 1891 was awarded a Smith’s Prize for an essay on “Stress in the Dielectric.”

scholarly journals Multitask Agents and Incentives: The Case of Teaching and Research for University Professors*†

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta De Philippis
Keyword(s):  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Average Effect ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Composition Effects ◽  
Research Ability ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Incentives

Abstract This paper exploits a natural experiment to study the effects of providing stronger research incentives to faculty members on the universities’ average teaching and research performances. The results indicate that professors are induced to reallocate effort from teaching towards research. Moreover, tighter research requirements affect the faculty composition, as they lead lower research ability professors to leave. Given the estimated positive correlation between teaching and research ability, those who leave are also characterized by lower teaching ability. The average effect on teaching for the university is therefore ambiguous, as positive composition effects countervail effort substitution.

scholarly journals The Method of Selecting Academic Leaders at Emerging Saudi Universities and its Relationship to Some Variables

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Share Aiyed Aldosari
Keyword(s):  
Current Method ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Academic Rank ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Academic Leaders ◽  
Institutional Loyalty ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

The study aimed to identify the current method used for selecting academic leaders at emerging Saudi universities from the viewpoint of faculty members working there, and whether there is a correlation between the method used and the following variables: job satisfaction, organizational justice, organizational commitment, productivity motivation, and institutional loyalty and affiliation. In order to achieve the goals of the study, the researcher designed a questionnaire that included identifying the method used. The questionnaire consisted of (31) items divided according to the variables mentioned, and it was distributed to the study sample (300 faculty members), randomly chosen from the study community (2382 members). The results showed that there is a correlation between the method used and the variables mentioned which were at an intermediate level, with the exception of the productivity motivation that was at a high level for university professors, despite the fact that the foregoing variables were lower than expected. This made the researcher recommend that the university and the Ministry of Education would review that mechanism and hold conferences and workshops in order to address it before these positive professors suffer from disappointment and job burnout. The study also revealed that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (α = 0.05) in experience in favor of (10) years or more, in the academic rank in favor of (Assistant Professor), and in officiality and contracting in favor of the contracting parties.

scholarly journals Le professeur d'université et la notion de salarié du Code du travail du Québec

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-409
Author(s):  
Denise Chalifoux
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Constitutive Laws ◽  
University Professors ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
University Professor ◽  
The University ◽  
Yeshiva University

The split decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Yeshiva University case in 1980 highlighted the difficulties inherent in appliying American labour laws to the university milieu. This paper considers whether a similar problem exists in Quebec today in regard to the notion of employee found in the Quebec Labour Code and the functions of a university professor. The author first characterizes a professor's work on the basis of the role and responsabilities assigned to him by the different constitutive laws of the Quebec universities in order to establish, in a second section, to what extent this type of occupation is compatible or not with the carefully analysed notion of employee as it is found in the Quebec Labour Code. While this study does not support the conclusion that the associations of university professors should not have been accredited in the first place, nor that decisions to that effect could have been or still could be reversed as in the case of Yeshiva, nor even that these accreditations were detrimental to the university milieu, it does show that the provisions of the Quebec Labour Code inadequately reflect the realities of the Quebec university milieu. It points out the direction possible changes should take to correct this problem.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE POTENTIAL OF FACULTY MEMBERS

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Юлия Масалова ◽  
Yuliya Masalova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Employment Potential ◽  
The University

The purpose of the work is to evaluate the potential of a high school teacher; the subject of study is employment potential and competitiveness of the university faculty member; research methods include analysis of statistical data and online-survey. The article presents the results of the research potential of the university teaching staff in the conditions of ongoing reforms in higher education and in connection with changing requirements to higher education institutions forfaculty members. It was determined that faculty members demonstrate high loyalty and commitment, but average engagement. It was revealed that the institution creates proper conditions for development and self-realization, creativity and communication. It was confirmed that university professors have a high scientific and innovative potential and willingness to conduct research. The conclusion is that the employment potential of university staff is not used to the full. It was determined that the majority of the teaching staff appreciates personal competitiveness. And only one out of five is aware of the need to develop their personal competitiveness in line with the new requirements. The results of the study may be useful for university governance within the management of human resources quality.

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