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O'Meara, KerryAnn; Rivera, Mark; Kuvaeva, Alexandra; Corrigan, Kristen – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
This study explored the relationships between faculty scholarly learning, faculty teaching learning, institutional support, faculty demographics, disciplinary groups, working conditions, and career outcomes such as retention, productivity, satisfaction, and career agency. We found that the stronger the scholarly learning faculty members reported,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Work Environment, College Faculty, Higher Education
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O'Meara, KerryAnn – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Empirical evidence suggests women faculty spend more time in campus service than men, which perpetuates inequality between men and women because research is valued more than service in academic reward systems, especially at research universities. Purpose/Focus of Study: In this study I apply insights from research on gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, College Faculty, Higher Education, Research Universities
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O'Meara, KerryAnn; Kuvaeva, Alexandra; Nyunt, Gudrun; Waugaman, Chelsea; Jackson, Rose – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Guided by research on gendered organizations and faculty careers, we examined gender differences in how research university faculty spend their work time. We used time-diary methods to understand faculty work activities at a microlevel of detail, as recorded by faculty themselves over 4 weeks. We also explored workplace interactions that shape…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Faculty Workload, Diaries, Career Development
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Campbell, Corbin M.; O'Meara, KerryAnn – Research in Higher Education, 2014
In a modern context of constrained resources and high demands, faculty exert agency to strategically navigate their careers (Baez 2000a; Neumann et al. 2006). Guided by the O'Meara et al. (2011) framework on agency in faculty professional lives, this study used Structural Equation Modeling to investigate which departmental factors…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Individual Power, Career Development, Structural Equation Models
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O'Meara, KerryAnn; Lounder, Andrew; Campbell, Corbin M. – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
This article analyzes sensemaking about faculty departure among administrators, faculty colleagues, and faculty leavers in one research university. A mixed methods database was analyzed to reveal four dominant explanations for faculty departure and two influences on sensemaking. Dominant explanations included better opportunities, the likelihood…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Mobility, Research Universities, Administrators
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Terosky, Aimee LaPointe; O'Meara, KerryAnn – Liberal Education, 2011
In this article, the authors discuss some manifestations of agency in the faculty career and the potential importance of its role in faculty career development. They define faculty professional growth as a change occurring in a person throughout his or her career and life that allows him or her to bring new and diverse knowledge, skills, values,…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Faculty Development, Professional Development, College Faculty