Three in Four Department Heads Are Found to Stress Teaching in Faculty Hiring.

Mooney, Carolyn J.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Three in Four Department Heads Are Found to Stress Teaching in Faculty Hiring.

Mooney, Carolyn J.

Chronicle of Higher Education, v36 n21 pA15,19 Feb 7 1990

Statistics on the relative importance of teaching and research were among the findings of a nationwide survey of 2,423 university department chairmen. Some of the findings of the survey on institutional policies covered: the overall faculty, academic rank, tenure systems, limits on tenured faculty, employee benefits, collective bargaining, etc. (MLW)

Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, College Faculty, Department Heads, Higher Education, National Surveys, Professors, Research, Statistical Analysis, Teacher Effectiveness, Tenure

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Numerical/Quantitative Data

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