Responses from 318 of 500 industrial education faculty showed that (1) over 70 percent were over 45; and (2) significant correlates of research productivity were networking with other faculty, conducting summer research, internal motivation, and involvement in teaching and advising graduate research students. (SK)

Discusses the apparently successful efforts of an English department and composition program to comply with the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Statement of Principles and Standards with regard to working conditions of teaching assistants. (RS)

Argues economists at leading liberal arts colleges make significant contributions to the discipline's scholarship. Measures the influence of economists (n=439) employed at the top 50 liberal arts colleges. Ranks departments and individuals based on citations. Finds greater experience and more publications but not lower teaching loads are…

Two German native speakers come to England to undertake a course of initial teacher training. They complete the course successfully. Instead of seeking and finding jobs as teachers, however, they return to Germany to undertake a second course of initial teacher training. This is unusual. This article reviews their reasons for taking two routes in…

The 2006 report from Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, "Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U. S. Higher Education", made recommendations that most parttime faculty cannot follow. The report "urge[s] postsecondary institutions to make a commitment to embrace new pedagogies, curricula,…

In response to widespread concern that many American students do not write well enough to meet the requirements of higher education and the workplace, the College Board's National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges has called for a writing revolution. A key component of this revolution is evaluation, with particular emphasis…

This study investigated inclusive practices in Prince Edward Island (PEI) elementary schools in terms of the supports teachers consider as important for inclusion. Twenty teachers were randomly selected to complete a survey, and 5 teachers were randomly selected to participate in an interview about inclusion supports. The survey in this study…

Concern for the status of linguistic minority education in Idaho provided motivation to investigate the perceptions of the inservice educators who work most closely with a large proportion of English language learners (ELLs) in the rural state's public schools. This study sought to learn directly from the state's ELL educators what they perceived…

British universities are following some American techniques and devising their own for measuring faculty workload. (Editor)

EVALUATING FACULTY ASSIGNMENTS AGAINST A CONSISTENT SET OF CRITERIA IS ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT IN THE COMPREHENSIVE JUNIOR COLLEGE. THE FACULTY ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA WESTERN COLLEGE DEVELOPED AN INDEX SYSTEM, IN WHICH THE NORMAL TEACHING EFFORT IS RATED AT 1.000 POINT EACH SEMESTER, OR 2.000 IN A 2-SEMESTER SCHOOL YEAR. FACTORS FOR EQUATING FACULTY…

Faculty course load requirements and their relationship to college size (small, medium, or large), location (north, south, middle, or west), and degree of faculty participation in work condition policy determination were the concern of this National Faculty Association of Community and Junior Colleges' study. Of the 993 junior colleges contacted,…

Two linear workload models of the University of California have been developed which can be used to forecast the university's demand for faculty. Both utilize a matrix of faculty input coefficients to transform a vector of student enrollment projections into a forecast of required faculty members. The purpose of the present investigation was…

It is the thesis of this paper that many factors must be taken into consideration to determine faculty workloads and that the weights placed upon the various factors are of importance equal to the actual factors themselves. The first section reviews available literature on faculty workloads, and lists: (1) some of the questions asked in these…