If Kent State Beats Goals, Professors Will Profit

Autor/in	Masterson, Kathryn
Titel	If Kent State Beats Goals, Professors Will Profit
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2008) 3, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Rewards; Income; State Universities; Organizational Objectives; Incentives; School Holding Power; Fund Raising; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Reward; Belohnung; Einkommen; Staatliche Universität; Business goal; Unternehmensziel; Anreiz; Fundraising; Spendensammlung
Abstract	This article reports on a new and unusual tactic that Kent State University is trying to improve its status, retention rate, and fund raising--paying cash bonuses to faculty members if the university exceeds its goals in those areas. The bonuses are built into a contract, approved last month, that covers 864 full-time, tenure-track faculty members who teach and do research on the university's eight campuses. Proposed by Lester A. Lefton, Kent State's president, the "success bonus pool" will be divided among faculty members if the Ohio institution improves retention rates for first-year students and increases the research dollars it generates and the private money raised through its foundation. The message behind the institutional-performance bonuses, which are much more common in private industry and for university presidents than for professors, is that faculty members should benefit from the work they do that influences those measures of a university's success. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10