Msg. #0787 Supporting and Retaining Early-Career Faculty
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| Audience/Grade: | Graduate-Professional Development |
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All Science and Engineering Computing Diversity Engineering Diversity General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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Academic Careers and Issues |
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| Description: | "I review some of the research on expectations and concerns of early-career faculty, highlighting particularly the difficulties young faculty members have identified in (1) understanding and achieving expectations for tenure and promotion, (2) becoming socialized in their institutions and departments and finding colleagues with whom to collaborate, and (3) balancing the multiple demands of jobs and personal and family responsibilities." The posting looks at trends in higher education that impact the hiring and success of tenure-track faculty. It contains the executive summary and an excerpt on "Great Workplaces" for New Faculty from Supporting and Retaining Early-Career Faculty by Betsy E. Brown in the monthly series Effective Practices for Academic Leaders. The series is available in an electronic publication that can be networked on a campus system to enable everyone on a campus to access the briefings at their desks when needed, for use both as guidance for administrators and as a development materials for faculty and others. The electronic license allows individual copying without need for permission, thus the individual briefings lend themselves to use in workshops ands seminars. One exerpt: "Gender Differences Among faculty at the six research institutions participating in the pilot study of the Study of New Scholars (2004a): of the 28 measures of workplace satisfaction� , junior faculty women were significantly less satisfied than men on 19-two out of three. Conversely, in no area were males significantly less satisfied than females� . * Females rated their institution as a workplace significantly lower than males. * Females rated their global satisfaction with their department and with their institution significantly lower than males. * Females were significantly less likely than males to recommend their departments to a candidate for a tenure-track position. (p. 1) Additional specific differences between male and female job satisfaction include a number related to the tenure expectations and the tenure process. Given that the majority of new U.S. doctorates in recent years have been awarded to women, institutions may need to investigate how male and female faculty are differentially affected by the institutions' policies, practices, and environment." |
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| Keywords: | gender equity racial differences faculty development |
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For online subscription information go to: <http://www.styluspub.com/journals/epal.aspx>. Volume 1, No.9, September, 2006. |
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| Publication Date: | April 2007 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/787.html |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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Tomorrow's Professor
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