scholarly journals Faculty Publishing Productivity: Comparisons over Time

2006 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Budd
Keyword(s):  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Time Faculty ◽  
Over Time

Concerns about higher education abound, and these include concerns about productivity. The present study extends two previous examinations of faculty publishing productivity covering the years 1991 to 1993 and 1995 to 1997. Both members of ARL and a group of institutions included in ACRL’s data set are included. For both groups there are some increases in mean total numbers of publications, although the rate of increase has decreased since the second time period. Per capita rates of publication demonstrate an even flatter pattern. In recent years, there have been some changes in the dynamics of universities’ faculties; there are more part-time faculty and more faculty who are not on the tenure track. These factors, coupled with the publishing data, point to activities that all academic librarians should be aware of.

Perceptions of Part-Time Faculty by Chairpersons of Undergraduate Health Education Programs

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 923-931
Author(s):  
James H. Price ◽  
Robert E. Braun ◽  
Molly A. McKinney ◽  
Amy Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Graduate Degree Programs ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Tenure Track Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty

In recent years, it has become commonplace for universities to hire part-time and non–tenure track faculty to save money. This study examined how commonly part-time faculty are used in health education and how they are used to meet program needs. The American Association of Health Education’s 2009 “Directory of Institutions Offering Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Programs in Health Education” was used to send a three-wave mailing to programs that were not schools of public health ( n = 215). Of the 125 departments (58%) that responded, those that used part-time faculty averaged 7.5 part-time faculty in the previous academic year, teaching on average a total of 10 classes per year. A plurality of departments (38%) were currently using more part-time faculty than 10 years ago and 33% perceived that the number of part-time faculty has resulted in decreases in the number of full-time positions. Although 77% of department chairs claimed they would prefer to replace all of their part-time faculty with one full-time tenure track faculty member. As colleges downsize, many health education programs are using more part-time faculty. Those faculty members who take part-time positions will likely be less involved in academic activities than their full-time peers. Thus, further research is needed on the effects of these changes on the quality of health education training and department productivity.

scholarly journals State- and County-Level COVID-19 Public Health Orders in California: Constructing a Dataset and Describing Their Timing, Content, and Stricture

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert ◽  
Alexander F. Holsinger ◽  
Erin Holsinger ◽  
Elizabeth Long
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Search Strategy ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
County Level ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
Pharmaceutical Interventions ◽  
Over Time

AbstractWithout vaccines, non-pharmaceutical interventions have been the most widely used approach to controlling the spread of COVID-19 epidemics. Various jurisdictions have implemented public health orders as a means of reducing effective contacts and controlling their local epidemics. Multiple studies have examined the effectiveness of various orders (e.g. use of face masks) for epidemic control. However, orders occur at different timings across jurisdictions and some orders on the same topic are stricter than others. We constructed a county-level longitudinal data set of more than 1,700 public health orders issues by California and its 58 counties pertaining to its 40 million residents. First, we describe methods used to construct the dataset that enables the characterization of the evolution over time of California state- and county-level public health orders dealing with COVID-19 from January 1, 2020 through November 30, 2020. Public health orders are both an interesting and important outcome in their own right and also a key input into analyses looking at how such orders may impact COVID-19 epidemics. To construct the dataset, we developed and executed a search strategy to identify COVID-19 public health orders over this time period for all relevant jurisdictions. We characterized each identified public health order in terms of the timing of when it was announced, went into effect and (potentially) expired. We also adapted an existing schema to describe the topic(s) each public health order dealt with and the level of stricture each imposed, applying it to all identified orders. Finally, as an initial assessment, we examined the patterns of public health orders within and across counties, focusing on the timing of orders, the rate of increase and decrease in stricture, and on variation and convergence of orders within regions.

scholarly journals A test of resource dependency theory using higher education institution behavioral changes after state based merit aid adoption

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jason (Jason F.) Evans
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Support ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Merit Aid ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Tenure Track Faculty ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty ◽  
Faculty Employment

The purpose of this study was to analyze whether four-year, public institutions altered their behaviors as their revenue streams changed. I utilized state based merit aid adoption to examine whether institutions altered their functional expenditures and faculty employment behaviors as institutions became more resource dependent on students. The dependent variables concerning functional expenditures analyzed were instruction, research, student services, public services, academic support, institutional support, and scholarships. The dependent variables concerning faculty employment analyzed were part-time faculty, full-time non-tenure-track faculty, and fulltime tenure-track faculty. A difference-in-difference estimation strategy estimated institutional responses to a merit aid program being adopted in their state. The findings indicated that after merit aid adoption in their state, institutions altered their behaviors in ways that indicated they became more resource dependent on students. Specifically, the models indicated that, on average, institutions in states that adopted a merit aid program spent more money on instruction, institutional support, and scholarships and employed more part-time faculty than institutions in states that did not adopt any merit aid program. The findings of this study suggest that if states direct funds to students that institutions will respond as though the students provide the funding and not the state.

Participation by Women in Annual Meetings, 1970-78

1979 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 318-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Gruberg ◽  
Virginia Sapiro
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Moderate Increase ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Faculty Teaching ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The Status ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty

In the late sixties, women in the United States became sensitized to their second-class status and organized to raise their consciousness and change their conditions. At the same time women in academia began to organize within their disciplines to address the problems they faced there. Political science was no exception; in 1969, when women constituted 5 percent of the membership of the APSA and 8 percent of all political science faculty teaching in colleges and universities, the APSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession and the Women's Caucus for Political Science formed. Numerous reports have revealed a moderate increase in the presence of women in the profession in recent years. As Table 1 shows, the percentage of degrees in political science awarded to women has increased since 1970. By the academic year 1976–77 women constituted 11 percent of full-time faculty and 18 percent of part-time faculty. Twenty-three percent of the students entering Ph.D. programs in 1977 were women, a downturn of 3 percent from the previous year, although an overall rise from the previous decade.

Part-time faculty and the law

1978 ◽  
Vol 1978 (18) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Ronald B. Head ◽  
Edward P. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Law ◽  
Time Faculty

New Policies for Part-Time Faculty

ADE Bulletin ◽  
1982 ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Elizabeth Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Time Faculty
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