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Bergom, Inger; Waltman, Jean; August, Louise; Hollenshead, Carol – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
Non-tenure-track (NTT) research faculty are perhaps the most under-recognized group of academic professionals on the campuses today, despite their increasingly important role within the expanding academic research enterprise. The American Association for the Advancement of Science reports that the amount of federal spending on R&D has more than…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Nontenured Faculty, Researchers, College Faculty
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Baldwin, Roger G.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1993
A study used available data to develop a profile of non-tenure-track college faculty (n=132) and compare it with a similarly derived profile of untenured but tenure-track faculty (n=587). The research explored the relationship between employment status and selected demographic, career orientation, career circumstance, and work environment…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, College Faculty, Employment Patterns
Gappa, Judith M. – 1996
This paper, one in a series about the priorities of the professoriate, explores several alternatives to tenure for faculty and institutions. Data for the study was drawn from a series of site visits to seven institutions during winter/spring 1995-96. Seventy-one interviews were conducted with administrators, senior faculty, and full-time…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Academic Rank (Professional), Career Development, Career Ladders