Hallelujah! Religion Is One Academic Department Where Black Faculty Members Are Well Represented

2002 ◽  
pp. 32
Keyword(s):  
Academic Department ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Black Faculty

The racialization of animal advocacy in South Africa

Ethnicities ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146879682094676
Author(s):  
Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Black Faculty ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Animal Product ◽  
Animal Advocacy ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

In 2015, some faculty at the University of Cape Town made a proposal to the Faculty of Humanities that no animal product be served at faculty events. Many black faculty members contested the proposal on the grounds that it was racist and disavowed the importance of the proposal. In this article, I wish to argue that the proposal’s approach neglects the racialized history of animal advocacy in South Africa, while also being carried out at an inopportune time and context. Consequently, it racializes the debate on animal advocacy in South Africa to the extent that it contributes to the African faculty’s disavowal of the proposal and of animal injustice in general. Nevertheless, I also argue that the proposal could have been more successful if it had integrated racial justice concerns and African elements. This is the case because there are good reasons for Africans to support animal justice. Particularly, in the case of South Africa, it can be argued that addressing animal justice is beneficial for improving Africans’ health, a contribution to the elimination of environmental injustice and helpful for Africanizing institutions.

Black Faculty Members At Multiracial Campuses

1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Strickland
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Members ◽  
Black Faculty

An Innovative Approach To Faculty Coaching

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Dana ◽  
Brandy Havens ◽  
Cathy Hochanadel ◽  
JoDee Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Department Chairs ◽  
Academic Department ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Audio Feedback ◽  
Recording Technology ◽  
Academic Department Chairs ◽  
Open Line ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Business And Management

As online education has grown rapidly, colleges and universities have developed various approaches to effectively evaluating and coaching faculty.  Faculty performance is central to student success and faculty need feedback that is consistent, constructive and illustrative.  Through the use of screen recording technology, academic department chairs can record a visual, clear walk- through of an online class while providing constructive, audio feedback to the instructor. This technology in and of itself is simple and straightforward to use, and can be archived for future reference in the event that an academic department chairs and/or administrator would need documentation regarding the performance of a faculty member.  In 2009, the School of Business and Management at an online university began using Jing/Screen cast recording to provide faculty feedback.  The response from faculty has been overwhelmingly positive.  Faculty have expressed that combining the use of visual and audio feedback results in straightforward expectations  in meeting teaching requirements and a better understanding of teaching requirements. This has proven to be an efficient and effective way of providing not only positive feedback but also constructive criticism, which has resulted in faculty taking actions to improve their teaching performance.  This tool has worked well for this online university but the application could be equally effective in managing fewer faculty members.  Faculties have been able to gain an immediate understanding of what they are proficient in and where they can improve. They have provided such feedback as, “I am in awe of the technology!  This is so very user friendly, and it is such an efficient and effective way to get your message across to me.”  The introduction and use of this technology, audio and visual feedback, has created a community of improved understanding of University requirements and classroom expectations while establishing a better relationship and more open line of communication between academic department chairs and remote adjunct faculty.

scholarly journals Decision-making by Heads of Academic Department using Student Evaluation of Instruction (SEI)

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-250
Author(s):  
Mohammed Saleh Alkathiri
Keyword(s):  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Academic Department ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Evaluation Of Instruction ◽  
Student Evaluation Of Instruction

This study investigates the ways in which heads of academic department use student evaluation of instruction (SEI) to make decisions about individual faculty members and/or whole academic departments. The study utilized a convenience sample of 57 heads of department, who completed an online questionnaire with two main constructs, which were assessed at the interval level of measurement. The results of the study revealed significant differences between heads of department who tend to trust SEI results compared to those who tend not to trust SEI results. The findings suggest there is a significant association between how heads of department perceive SEI and how they use it to make decisions about individual faculty members and their academic departments. In addition, analysis of the respondents as per two groups, according to their attitudes of trust or distrust toward SEI, showed that disparities within these groups were greater with respect to issues or decisions that affect individuals as opposed to whole departments. Therefore, the study concludes that decisions should not be made based solely on the results of SEI; rather, multiple sources of evaluation should be utilized to make proper decisions. The author strongly recommends that academic leaders should use SEI across multiple years or courses in order to obtain more reliable information. Future research may include qualitative studies on the topic and discipline-specific studies within certain academic departments or college clusters.

scholarly journals Are They Really Similar? Satisfaction, Opinion, and Scholarly Activity of Black Faculty by Citizenship Status

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Patricia G Boyer ◽  
Lorna Holtman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Scholarly Activity ◽  
Black Faculty ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Citizenship Status ◽  
Faculty Time ◽  
Workload Models ◽  
The U.S

Faculty workload is an important higher education issue because of its increasing demands on faculty time, mandates by institutional and external factors, and its relationship to job satisfaction. Specifically, how faculty perceive their workload can positively or negatively influence their job satisfaction. Current literature regarding faculty and workload has focused largely on workload models. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the workload of Black faculty members by citizenship status (U.S. citizens; citizens, foreign born; and non-citizens) based on satisfaction, opinion, and scholarly activity variables. Overall, the findings revealed that foreign born and non-citizens were similar in many of the variables studied and U.S. born citizens were very different than the other two citizenship groups. In spite of the belief of many researchers, the findings revealed that in many variables studied, the U.S. born Black faculty were less productive and their opinions and satisfaction differ than foreign-born and non-citizens. Also revealed in this study, but not surprising, was the fact that approximately half of Black faculty were not in a tenured track position and a very small number had tenure. The findings will assist higher education institutions in better understanding Black faculty, in addition to, assisting administrators and policymakers in providing support toward enhancing the productivity of these faculty.

scholarly journals THE DEGREE OF CREATIVE LEADERSHIP PRACTICE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL EPILEPSY AMONG DEPARTMENT HEADS FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF FACULTY MEMBERS AT WASIT UNIVERSITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (05) ◽  
pp. 439-452
Author(s):  
Saad Naeem RADHAWI
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Management ◽  
Academic Department ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Organizational Conflict ◽  
Department Heads ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Creative Leadership ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Relationship

The study aimed to identify the relationship between creative leadership and organizational conflict management among department heads from the viewpoint of faculty members at Wasit University. In order to find out the differences according to the variables of gender and specialization, the study sample consisted of (200) male and female teachers from the study population, they were chosen by the simple random method, and the researcher adopted the descriptive correlative approach to conduct the study. The two tools of the study consisted of a questionnaire of (40) items to measure lateral leadership and (36) items to manage organizational conflict prepared by the researcher. The results of the research data were analyzed using the (SPSS) program, The results of the research showed that the degree of creative leadership practice of academic department heads was high, and the results indicated that the level of organizational conflict management for academic department heads was high, and there was a positive relationship between the practice of creative leadership and the level of organizational conflict management for department heads from the viewpoint of faculty members at Wasit University and in In light of the results of the research, the researcher presented a number of recommendations, including continuity in maintaining the degree of practice of creative leadership and management of organizational conflict, as well as deepening and increasing awareness of the importance of creative leadership, and continuity in raising awareness of organizational conflict management methods through training and informing them of the advanced and renewable global experiences and proposing to conduct similar studies in Iraqi universities‎. Keywords: Practice, Creative Leadership, Organizational Conflict Management, Heads of Departments, Wasit University

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