Toward a Greater Understanding of the Tenure Track for Minorities

Autor/in	Trower, Cathy A.
Titel	Toward a Greater Understanding of the Tenure Track for Minorities
Quelle	In: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 41 (2009) 5, S.38-45 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-1383
Schlagwörter	Tenure; Focus Groups; Collegiality; College Faculty; Minority Groups; Surveys; Interviews; Work Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Evaluation Criteria; Standards; Departments; Higher Education; Job Satisfaction; Work Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Kollegialität; Fakultät; Ethnische Minderheit; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Lehrerverhalten; Standard; Department; Abteilung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Arbeitsmilieu
Abstract	To understand what life on the tenure track is like, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) conducts an annual survey of tenure-track faculty. Through surveys and in focus groups and interviews, hundreds of tenure-track faculty members tell what affects their workplace satisfaction and, ultimately, their success. The clarity and reasonableness of the criteria and standards for achieving tenure, institutional and collegial support for teaching and research, the effectiveness of workplace policies and practices, departmental climate and collegiality, and work/life balance are among the issues addressed. In 2009, for the first time, COACHE had collected enough faculty respondents who self-identified in each racial and ethnic category, in proportions similar to their representation in the faculty population nationally, to look at each group separately and see how their experiences of academe differ. An examination of the different groups' experiences of faculty life is important to the welfare of students. This article presents a series of commonly asked questions about how the COACHE research probed the issues and what they discovered about them. (Contains 3 figures and 6 resources.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10