Author: William G. TierneyPublisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Enhancing promotions, tenure and beyond - cover title.
Enhancing Promotion, Tenure and Beyond
Author: William G. TierneyPublisher: Jossey-Bass
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Enhancing promotions, tenure and beyond - cover title.
Resources in Education
Author: Collegiality and Service for Tenure and Beyond
Author: Franklin H. SilvermanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313058717
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This book candidly provides assistant professors and graduate sutdents contemplating a career in academia with practical information that will facilitate their meeting collegiality and service expectations for promotion and tenure. The focus is on meeting departmental and institutional expectations for collegiality and service. While a superior record for collegiality and service are unlikely to compensate for a weak teaching or publishing record, an inadequate record for one or both of these can result in denial of tenure and promotion. Following the recommendations in this book can substantially increase the likelihood of meeting collegiality and service expectations.
Beyond Stock Stories and Folktales
Author: Henry T. FriersonPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1780521685
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Ask practically any academic department chair why they do not have more African Americans among faculty members and they generally respond with stock stories or folktales. This title provides historical, conceptual, and empirically-based analyses focused on the development of African Americans in STEM fields.
Tenure in the Sacred Grove
Author: Joanne E. CooperPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488950
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Designed to help women and minority faculty navigate a path to tenure in academe, this book looks at the political, scholarly, personal and interpersonal issues. Filled with the experiences and advice of those who have navigated this terrain successfully, despite obstacles and setbacks, it includes considerations for women, faculty of color, and gay/lesbian/bisexual faculty, addressing racism, sexism and ageism in the academy. The contributors provide guidance in a multitude of areas such as coping with feelings of fraudulence, making a persuasive tenure case, balancing work and family, as well as practical advice on teaching, research and publication, and the scholarship of outreach. Contributors include tenured faculty, journal editors, department chairs, campus promotion and tenure chairs, and university presidents.
Catalog of ERIC Clearinghouse Publications
Author: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: An Evidence-Based Perspective
Author: Raymond P. PerryPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402057423
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 815
Book Description
Pivotal to the transformation of higher education in the 21st Century is the nature of pedagogy and its role in advancing the aims of various stakeholders. This book brings together pre-eminent scholars to critically assess teaching and learning issues that cut across most disciplines. Systematically explored throughout the book is the avowed linkage between classroom teaching and motivation, learning, and performance outcomes in students.
Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
Author: John C. SmartPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400707029
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on twelve general areas that encompass the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.
Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education
Author: VariousPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429790414
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 9066
Book Description
The volumes in this set, originally published between 1964 and 2002, draw together research by leading academics in the area of higher education, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volume examines the concepts of learning, teaching, student experience and administration in relation to the higher education through the areas of business, sociology, education reforms, government, educational policy, business and religion, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of higher education in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of education, politics and sociology.
Handbook of Latinos and Education
Author: Enrique G. Murillo Jr.Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135236690
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
Providing a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship relevant to educational issues which impact Latinos, this Handbook captures the field at this point in time. Its unique purpose and function is to profile the scope and terrain of academic inquiry on Latinos and education. Presenting the most significant and potentially influential work in the field in terms of its contributions to research, to professional practice, and to the emergence of related interdisciplinary studies and theory, the volume is organized around five themes: history, theory, and methodology policies and politics language and culture teaching and learning resources and information. The Handbook of Latinos and Education is a must-have resource for educational researchers, graduate students, teacher educators, and the broad spectrum of individuals, groups, agencies, organizations and institutions sharing a common interest in and commitment to the educational issues that impact Latinos.