scholarly journals Alignment of Athletic Training Doctoral Education and Faculty Workload

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara L. Nottingham ◽  
Stephanie M. Mazerolle ◽  
Thomas G. Bowman ◽  
Kelly A. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Faculty Workload ◽  
Faculty Position ◽  
Faculty Positions

Context: Evidence suggests that doctoral education is incongruent with faculty positions, but this has yet to be specifically examined in athletic training. Objective: To gain understanding of the alignment of doctoral education and faculty workload, including institutional characteristics, from the perspectives of junior faculty members. Design: Qualitative, phenomenological research. Setting: Higher education institutions with Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education–accredited programs. Patients or Other Participants: Twenty athletic training faculty members (14 women and 6 men) who were 32 ± 3 years of age and averaged 10 ± 4 years of experience as athletic trainers and 2 ± 2 years as a full-time faculty member. Main Outcome Measure(s): We developed, peer-reviewed, and piloted 2 semistructured interview guides to obtain participants' perspectives on their doctoral preparation, entrance into higher education, and faculty workload. We completed telephone interviews with each participant over the course of 4 months. Transcribed interviews were analyzed by 2 investigators using a phenomenological approach, then reviewed by 2 additional qualitative researchers. Mechanisms of trustworthiness included member-checking, multianalyst triangulation, and peer review. Results: Two themes emerged from this study: (1) workload and (2) congruency. Faculty workload was dominated by teaching, but faculty had several demands on their time, including administration, service, and research. Most faculty positions focused on teaching, whereas their doctoral education was more focused on research, possibly because of a lack of congruency between doctoral education and faculty position institution types. Although mismatches occurred between doctoral education and faculty workload, participants were often aware of these differences and selected faculty positions aligned with their career goals. Conclusions: Faculty workload is generally teaching-focused and contains additional demands that are often not included in doctoral education programs. Doctoral advisors should promote adequate socialization to these characteristics of faculty positions, and doctoral students should consider their interests and faculty workload when searching for faculty positions.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Employer Socialization Tactics During Junior Faculty Transition into Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Bowman ◽  
Stephanie M. Mazerolle ◽  
Brianne F. Kilbourne
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Role Transition ◽  
Full Time ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Faculty Position ◽  
Faculty Transition

Context: New faculty are expected to teach, be productive scholars, and provide service in order to earn tenure, but few experience the full spectrum of faculty responsibility during doctoral preparation. Recent evidence suggests mentorship and orientation are important during role transition. However, how employers facilitate role transition for new faculty remains unclear. Objective: Examine the perspectives of junior faculty members' organizational socialization into higher education, specifically focusing on mentorship and orientation sessions. Design: Qualitative study. Setting: Fourteen higher education institutions. Patients or Other Participants: Sixteen junior faculty (7 male, 9 female; age = 32 ± 3.5 years) representing 7 National Athletic Trainers' Association districts participated. At the time of the interview, all participants were within their first 3 years of a full-time faculty position. Main Outcome Measure(s): All participants completed a semistructured telephone interview. The interview guide was focused on the experiences of junior faculty and was developed based upon the literature and purpose of the study. We analyzed the transcribed interviews using a general inductive approach. Results: Mentors provided support to assist in the transition to faculty positions on a variety of topics, although formal mentoring programs are identified as helpful only if a relationship develops. Regarding the second theme, participants noted orientation sessions organized by the institution or department that provided a clear overview of the position. However, despite their use, many described the orientation sessions as not providing essential information that would have been helpful. Additionally, tenure and promotion processes often had purposefully vague criteria regardless of how thorough the explanation, leading to stress. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that higher education administrators help new athletic training faculty transition by providing mentors and orientation sessions. Findings also suggest that these experiences, at times, are not comprehensive and caused the transition to academe to be stressful.

scholarly journals Doctoral Preparation Influence on New Faculty's Perception of Role Transition

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 340-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brianne F. Kilbourne ◽  
Stephanie M. Mazerolle ◽  
Thomas G. Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Faculty Role ◽  
Faculty Position ◽  
Doctoral Preparation ◽  
National Athletic Trainers Association

Context: Teaching, scholarship, and service are required of all faculty in order to earn tenure. Faculty members hired directly from doctoral programs may not be adequately prepared to face the responsibilities of a full-time position in the professoriate. Objective: To explore what mechanisms as part of doctoral education influenced the perceptions of junior faculty development while transitioning postgraduation. Design: Qualitative phenomenological study. Setting: Fourteen higher education institutions. Patients or Other Participants: Sixteen junior faculty (7 male, 9 female, age = 32 ± 3.5 years) representing 7 National Athletic Trainers' Association districts participated. At the time of the interview, participants were within their first 3 years of a full-time faculty position. All participants earned doctorates from residential programs and had an assistantship position. Main Outcome Measure(s): All participants completed a semistructured telephone interview. The interview guide was focused on the experiences of junior faculty within their first 3 years in a tenure-track position. Questions were grounded within the literature and purpose of the study. We analyzed the interviews through a psychosocial developmental lens using a general inductive approach. Results: Two themes of doctoral preparation emerged that influenced the perceptions of junior faculty transitioning into a faculty role: breadth and depth of the doctoral assistantship and doctoral coursework related to academia. Doctoral assistantships with breadth and depth helped participants develop competence, while doctoral coursework related to academia provided content expertise. Conclusions: Doctoral education is the platform for transition into academia. Our findings suggest that doctoral program assistantships that provided both breadth and depth of experience facilitated transition. Coursework related to academia influenced perceptions of transition into the faculty role by exposing participants to pedagogy and higher education infrastructure.

scholarly journals Examining the Factors that Facilitate Athletic Training Faculty Socialization into Higher Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 208-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie M. Mazerolle ◽  
Jessica L. Barrett ◽  
Sara Nottingham
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Doctoral Training ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Athletic Training Faculty ◽  
Training Faculty

Context: Doctoral education is the mechanism whereby athletic trainers can develop an awareness of their future roles and responsibilities in higher education. Evidence suggests that doctoral education may provide an incomplete understanding of these roles and responsibilities, warranting further investigation. Objective: To gain a better understanding on how athletic training faculty members are socialized into their role. Design: Qualitative study. Setting: Higher education institutions. Patients or Other Participants: Twenty-eight athletic training educators (14 men, 14 women) who had completed doctoral training. Participants' average age was 39 ± 6 years, with 11.6 ± 5.6 years of experience working in education. Main Outcome Measure(s): One-on-one interviews were completed with all participants following a semistructured framework. Data saturation drove sampling. Inductive analysis was used to evaluate the data. Member checks, peer review, and researcher triangulation established rigor. Results: The first theme, professional socialization, was defined by participants as those experiences in their doctoral training that provided role understanding. The second theme, organizational socialization, speaks to those experiences that occurred once the athletic training faculty member was employed full time in higher education. The category of mentorship was articulated, in both themes, as impactful in both professional preparations at the doctoral level and during the institutional socialization process once a novice faculty member is hired. Conclusions: Doctoral education provides the platform for role understanding, which allows the athletic trainer to be prepared to transition into the faculty member role. Specifically, engagement in the role and mentoring provided this role awareness, which is common within the socialization framework. Institutions also offer formalized orientation sessions as a means to assimilate, and mentoring is also available for support.

scholarly journals A Developmental Perspective on Behaviors of New Faculty Transition into Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-358
Author(s):  
Brianne F. Kilbourne ◽  
Thomas G. Bowman ◽  
Stephanie M. Mazerolle
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Personal Standards ◽  
National Athletic Trainers Association

Context: The responsibilities of new faculty members can be stressful because of the expectations of research, teaching, service, and for some, administration. The strain from transition and role complexity can impact faculty members' perceptions of the experience and therefore professional development. Objective: To understand how individual characteristics and behaviors influenced development of new faculty during their transition from doctoral students to faculty members. Design: Qualitative phenomenology study. Setting: Higher education institutions with Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education-accredited athletic training programs. Patients or Other Participants: Sixteen junior faculty (7 males, 9 females, age = 32 ± 3.5 years) representing 7 National Athletic Trainers' Association districts and 14 different higher education institutions participated. Main Outcome Measure(s): A semistructured telephone interview protocol was used to examine the experiences of junior faculty within their first 3 years of a faculty role. Interviews were coded inductively using a psychosocial developmental interpretive lens. Credibility was established with saturation of the findings and researcher triangulation. Results: The data revealed 3 individual behavioral characteristics positively influenced the development of junior faculty through transition: (1) adaptive perfectionism, (2) competence gained through experience, and (3) the use of a mentor network. Our participants adapted personal expectations in light of outcomes that differed from personal standards; gained competence by seeking experience before, during, and after their doctoral studies; and used a mentor network to ease transition. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that individuals who are able to reflect on their performance and self-adjust personal standards and/or behaviors have a positive perception related to their ability to be successful during transition. Competence gained through experience apart from doctoral assistantships appears to facilitate the transition into higher education. Also, the creation and maintenance of a mentor network that provides a variety of support from multiple sources appears to improve transition by providing comradery, security, and help.

scholarly journals Mentoring Processes in Higher Education: Perspectives of Junior Athletic Training Faculty Members

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Nottingham ◽  
Stephanie Mazerolle
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Athletic Training Faculty ◽  
Time Faculty ◽  
Training Faculty

Purpose: Mentorship is a valuable mechanism of socializing faculty members to higher education, but understanding of how mentoring relationships develop is limited. The purpose of this study was to seek a more complete understanding of how mentoring relationships develop for junior faculty members, and how these effective mentoring relationships can be fostered. Method: A qualitative, phenomenological design was used to examine junior athletic training faculty members’ experiences with mentoring. Twenty athletic training faculty members: 14 women, 6 men, 32±3 years of age and averaged 2.4±2.1 years as a full-time faculty member in an accredited athletic training program participated in this study. Participants completed one telephone interview, which was audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analyzed with an inductive phenomenological approach. Data saturation was obtained Trustworthiness strategies included peer review and the use of multi-analyst triangulation. Results: Junior faculty participated in informal and formal mentoring relationships that evolved over time, which aided their transition from doctoral student to full-time faculty member. Additionally, mentoring relationships were strengthened when participants took initiative, engaged in the relationship, and set clear goals. Mentors who exhibit good communication skills, willingness to participate, and genuine interest in the mentee are particularly valuable. Conclusions: Both formal and informal mentoring experiences appear to be valuable for junior faculty members, particularly informal relationships. If institutional mentoring programs are lacking then junior faculty should seek out additional mentoring opportunities. These findings also confirm existing literature on effective mentoring characteristics.

scholarly journals Stage-Based Challenges and Strategies for Support in Doctoral Education: A Practical Guide for Students, Faculty Members, and Program Administrators

10.28945/2347 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 015-034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan J. Pifer ◽  
Vicki L. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Program Administrators ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Apply Theory ◽  
Recommendations For Practice

Studies of doctoral education have included an interest not only in processes, structures, and outcomes, but also in students’ experiences. There are often useful recommendations for practice within individual examinations of the doctoral experience, yet there remains a need to strengthen the application of lessons from research to the behaviors of students and others engaged in the doctoral process. This paper is the first to synthesize research about doctoral education with the particular aim of informing practical strategies for multiple stakeholders. In this article, we summarize findings from a literature review of the scholarship about doctoral education from the past 15 years in a stage-based overview of the challenges of doctoral education. Our aim is to apply theory to practice through the systematic consideration of how research about doctoral education can best inform students and those who support them in the doctoral journey. We first present an overview of the major stages of doctoral education and related challenges identified in the research. We then consider key findings of that research to offer recommendations for doctoral students, faculty members, and administrators within and across stages.

Identity Development and Mentoring in Doctoral Education

2009 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Hall ◽  
Leslie Burns
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Doctoral Education ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Formal Curriculum ◽  
Faculty Mentors ◽  
Diverse Groups

In this essay, Leigh Hall and Leslie Burns use theories of identity to understand mentoring relationships between faculty members and doctoral students who are being prepared as educational researchers. They suggest that becoming a professional researcher requires students to negotiate new identities and reconceptualize themselves both as people and professionals in addition to learning specific skills; however, the success or marginalization that students experience may depend on the extent to which they attempt to enact identities that are valued by their mentors. For this reason, Hall and Burns argue that faculty mentors must learn about and consider identity formation in order to successfully socialize more diverse groups of researchers, and they believe that formal curriculum designs can be used more intentionally to help students and faculty understand the roles identity plays in professional development and to make doctoral education more equitable.

Effect of Dark Personalities on Knowledge Hiding Behaviour at Higher Education Institutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (04) ◽  
pp. 2050031
Author(s):  
Dewan Niamul Karim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Significant Positive Association ◽  
Knowledge Hiding ◽  
Time Faculty

A key concern in the way of improving knowledge sharing practices is knowledge hiding behaviour. Literature shows that knowledge hiding is a prevalent phenomenon in organisations including higher education institutions (HEIs) and is largely determined by the personality of the knowledge holders. Thus, the present study attempts to examine the effect of dark personalities (undesirable personality traits comprising of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy) on knowledge hiding behaviour of faculty members at HEIs. Based on 139 valid responses from the full-time faculty members serving in various private universities in Bangladesh, the study revealed that both Machiavellianism and psychopathy have significant positive association with knowledge hiding behaviour of the academics, whereas narcissism is insignificantly related with knowledge hiding behaviour. This study indicated that dark personalities play a key role in academics’ inclination to hide knowledge.

Preparing and Applying for a Teaching-Focused Faculty Position

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldine L. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Cover Letter ◽  
Faculty Position ◽  
Education Market ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
Higher Education Market ◽  
First Interview ◽  
Time Faculty

With a dose of humor, the author of this chapter chronicles her journey as she searched for a full-time faculty position at local and national colleges and universities after receiving her PhD in community psychology. The search provided excellent first-hand experience that the author shares with readers and includes information about the process, highlighting concrete tools that are needed to be successful. She covers the importance of creating an effective curriculum vitae, teaching statement, and cover letter to land your first interview; how to be more tech savvy, mastering interviews via video conferencing software, such as Skype and Google Hang-Out; and why it is essential to get input on the highly important job talk from prospective academic colleagues. This chapter delivers a sense of the climate and process of entering the higher education market, while leaving the reader with hope for securing that sought-after faculty position.

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