scholarly journals The Role Of Service In P&T Decisions

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Saunders ◽  
Christopher Luchs ◽  
Walter Smith
Keyword(s):  
Decision Process ◽  
Teaching Effectiveness ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
The Third ◽  
Full Professorship ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Tenure Process

Promotion and tenure are very important to faculty members, especially to faculty that are untenured or are in the lower academic ranks.  Typically, universities grant promotion and tenure (P & T) based on three components: research, teaching, and service.  Research is usually relatively well defined and is based on some combination of quality and quantity of presentations and publications.  Teaching effectiveness is typically evaluated using peer evaluations, student evaluations, and the ratings of administrators.  The third component, service, tends to be the least well defined of the three.   The reason for this may be that service is more difficult to quantify because its components tend to be numerous and vague.  This study investigates the perceived importance, what is, of service in the P & T decisions and how important service should be in those decisions.  Email questionnaires were sent to faculty across the nation to obtain their perceptions concerning the overall importance of service in the P & T process at their school.  The survey is designed to capture data regarding the perceived present importance of service in the promotion and tenure process, and what the importance of service in the promotion and tenure process should be.  The results indicate that service is considered to be between “slightly” and “moderately” important in obtaining promotion and tenure.  Respondents indicated that service should be at least “moderately important” in the P & T decision process.  These differences between how important service is and how important it should be are all statistically significant at the 1% level.  Overall, the results show that service is more important for the promotion to full professorship decision than it is for the promotion to associate and granting of tenure decisions.  In addition, analyses show that how important service is and how important it should be varies significantly with some of the demographic characteristics of the respondents’ schools.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-163
Keyword(s):  
Private Practice ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Agencies

Children's Bureau Publication The Attorney's Part in Adoption, Children's Bureau Folder No. 47, is the third in the series of folders on adoption recently issued by the Children's Bureau. It deals with the part the attorney plays in the adoptive process. Fourteen attorneys, some engaged in the private practice of law, others faculty members in law schools and still others representatives of public or voluntary social agencies, met in Washington in May, 1958 to discuss the role of the attorney in adoption. Particular consideration was given to the legal aspects of adoption in relation to the natural parents, the child and to the adoptive parents. This leaflet is based on the principles discussed in this meeting. Copies are available from the Superintendent of Documents for 10 cents each with the usual discount of 25% on lots of 100 or more sent to one address.

The role of online learning in the merit and promotion process: Is credit necessary or applied?

First Monday ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Kupczynski ◽  
Angela M. Gibson ◽  
Linda Challoo
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Promotion Process ◽  
Tenure Process ◽  
Current Standards

Traditionally, universities have awarded promotion/tenure based on subjective criteria developed by the granting institution and disregarded credit for creating and teaching an online course. Current standards for promotion/tenure at Texas public universities and the role that an online course should play in tenure/promotion process are explored. Texas was selected to represent national standards in the promotion and tenure process.

scholarly journals Validating Faculty Advising Through Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Julie E. Yonker ◽  
Dana Hebreard ◽  
Brian D. Cawley
Keyword(s):  
Academic Advising ◽  
Student Evaluations ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Faculty Advising ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Advising Assessment

Faculty members take on the role of primary advisors on many small campuses. Many report feeling underprepared for the advising role. Assessment of academic advising can raise the awareness and perceived importance of advising and provide helpful feedback for practitioners. We developed a 14-item online advising assessment used to evaluate four important domains of advising: academic advice, advisor availability, advisor as personable and interested, and advising about vocation. We used this assessment to evaluate advisors who participated in an advising workshop designed to enhance their relational and conceptual advising skills. Student evaluations of advisors before and after the workshop showed significant positive differences. We recommend this assessment for advising improvement and as a means of evaluating workshop efficacy.

scholarly journals Exploring the Mentoring Needs of Early- and Mid-Career URM Engineering Faculty: A Phenomenological Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Mendez ◽  
Jennifer Tygret ◽  
Valerie Martin Conley ◽  
Comas Haynes ◽  
Rosario Gerhardt
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Underrepresented Minority ◽  
Engineering Faculty ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Development Support ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Tenure Process

While mentoring has been identified as a valuable resource in recruiting and retaining underrepresented minority (URM) faculty, little research has examined the difference in mentoring needs of early- and mid-career engineering URM faculty members. As these needs can change as they navigate academia and the tenure process, mentors can effectively provide guidance and support only when they have been identified. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to determine the mentoring needs and activities of early- and mid-career URM engineering faculty who participated in the IMPACT mentoring program and how their needs were met (Moustakas, 1994). The IMPACT program and the associated research were supported by a National Science Foundation Office for Broadening Participation in Engineering award (15-42728 and 15-42524). The Ideal Mentoring Model for URM Faculty served as the theoretical framework and the study included interviews with 11 early- to mid-career faculty who provided an in-depth understanding of the participants’ needs and activities. Findings indicate all faculty members seek career development support in navigating the engineering promotion and tenure process. However, mid-career faculty display greater interest in receiving sponsorship and coaching from their mentors, as well as an awareness of the importance of having a network of mentors.

scholarly journals DOCUMENTING AND EVALUATING DATA SCIENCE CONTRIBUTIONS IN ACADEMIC PROMOTION IN DEPARTMENTS OF STATISTICS AND BIOSTATISTICS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance A. Waller
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Specific Component ◽  
Academic Promotion ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
Evaluation Of Data

ABSTACTThe dynamic intersection of the emerging field of Data Science with the established academic communities of Statistics and Biostatistics continues to generate lively debate, often with the two fields playing the role of an upstart (but brilliant), tech-savvy prodigy and an established (but brilliant), curmudgeonly expert, respectively. Like any new discipline, Data Science brings new perspectives and new tools to address new questions requiring new perspectives on traditionally established concepts. In this paper, we explore a specific component of this discussion, namely the documentation and evaluation of Data Science-related research, teaching, and service contributions for faculty members seeking promotion and tenure within traditional departments of statistics and Biostatistics.

Who Are the Faculty?

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-95
Author(s):  
James W. Dean ◽  
Deborah Y. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Academic Promotion ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Faculty Positions ◽  
Doctor Of Philosophy ◽  
Tenure Process

To many, the role of the faculty in academic institutions is unclear. It is important to understand how professors impact the reputational quality of a university. This chapter explores how faculty earn their doctor of philosophy (PhD) degrees, the differences between tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty positions, the academic promotion and tenure process, academic freedom, and shared governance.

Tenure and Promotion Experiences of Music Teacher Educators: A Mixed-Methods Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Pellegrino ◽  
Colleen M. Conway ◽  
J. Si Millican
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Teacher Educator ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Evaluative Criteria ◽  
Tenure Process

To examine music education faculty members’ promotion and tenure experiences, we interviewed ( N = 9) and surveyed ( N = 124) music teacher educators (MTEs) who were pretenure or tenured within the past 3 years. Findings highlighted MTE’s perceptions of evaluative criteria and standards, mentoring programs and experiences, professional identity, and work-life balance. We found that MTEs valued three aspects of their professional identity: teacher educator, researcher, and musician, although most reported that music activities did not count as scholarly activities. We also found that MTEs need multiple mentors: someone familiar with institutional tenure policy and expectations and MTEs within and/or outside of the same institution. MTE survey respondents (70%) reported feeling stress related to the tenure process. Male respondents were more likely to feel satisfied (63%) with the balance of teaching, research, and service than female respondents (33%), and more likely to feel satisfied with the balance achieved between personal life and professional life (57%) than their female counterparts (36%).

Comprehensive Income: which potential effects on firms' performance evaluation and users' decision process?

2016 ◽  
pp. 55-94
Author(s):  
Pier Luigi Marchini ◽  
Carlotta D'Este
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Financial Analysts ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income ◽  
Gains And Losses ◽  
The Impact

The reporting of comprehensive income is becoming increasingly important. After the introduction of Other Comprehensive Income (OCI) reporting, as required by the 2007 IAS 1-revised, the IASB is currently seeking inputs from investors on the usefulness of unrealized gains and losses and on the role of comprehensive income. This circumstance is of particular relevance in code law countries, as local pre-IFRS accounting models influence financial statement preparers and users. This study aims at investigating the role played by unrealized gains and losses reporting on users' decision process, by examining the impact of OCI on the Italian listed companies RoE ratio and by surveying a sample of financial analysts, also content analysing their formal reports. The results show that the reporting of comprehensive income does not affect the financial statement users' decision process, although it statistically affects Italian listed entities' performance.

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