Contents

• Articles
• Focus on Faculty Constraints and Motivations
• Review Essay

Articles

Focus on Faculty Constraints and Motivations

Pitts, J. Michael.
White, William G.
Harrison, Andolyn B.
• Student Academic Underpreparedness: Effects on Faculty
  Subjects:
  • College students -- United States.
  • Academic achievement -- United States.
  • Remedial teaching -- United States.
  Abstract:
  This qualitative study explored the impact of academically underprepared students on 14 liberal arts and sciences faculty at two open-admissions universities. In-depth interviews revealed that faculty face widespread, acute problems in teaching underprepared students. Further, they feel isolated, with little support from colleagues or administrators. To survive in an open-admission environment, many undergo a confusing, emotionally trying process of personal adaptation, role redefinition, and reassessment of college-level teaching and learning.

Bellas, Marcia L.
Toutkoushian, Robert Kevin, 1962-.
• Faculty Time Allocations and Research Productivity: Gender, Race and Family Effects
  Subjects:
  • College teachers -- United States.
  • Minority college teachers -- United States.
  • Career development -- United States -- Sex differences.
  Abstract:
  This study, drawn from data about 14,614 full-time faculty, examines total faculty work hours, research productivity, and allocation of work time among teaching, research, and service. Variation in time expenditures and research output are influenced by gender, race/ethnicity, and family (marital/parental) status, but findings are also sensitive to definitions of total work hours and research productivity. These findings have important implications for how administrators and faculty define productivity and for the status of underrepresented groups within the academy.

Hearn, James C.
• Pay and Performance in the University: An Examination of Faculty Salaries
  Subjects:
  • College teachers -- Salaries, etc. -- United States.
  • College teachers -- Rating of -- United States.
  Abstract:
  With more attention on productivity in higher education has come a need for improved conceptualizations and policies relating to faculty salaries. Focusing on research universities, this essay examines historical patterns in salaries, recent evidence on salaries, the tenuous connections between salaries and performance, and some thoughts on the role of salaries in effective academic reward systems. The essay's goal is to help leaders craft salary policies that improve productivity in their institutions.

Serow, Robert C., 1947-.
Brawner, Catherine E.
Demery, James.
• Instructional Reform at Research Universities: Studying Faculty Motivation
  Subjects:
  • Educational change -- United States.
  • College teachers -- United States -- Attitudes .
  • College teaching -- United States.
  Abstract:
  Concerns about the quality of undergraduate teaching have focused new attention on the motives underlying faculty role performance at research universities. This article reports findings from a case study of faculty participation in one instructional reform coalition. Results indicate three distinct motivational patterns, corresponding roughly to variations in individuals' faculty status. The implications of these findings are considered in light of recent calls for the restructuring of universities' faculty rewards systems.

Younglove-Webb, Julie.
Gray, Barbara.
Abdalla, Charles William.
Thurow, Amy Purvis.
• The Dynamics of Multidisciplinary Research Teams in Academia
  Subjects:
  • Interdisciplinary approach in education.
  • Education, Higher -- Research.
  • Group work in education.
  Abstract:
  Although multidisciplinary research teams are well equipped to attack complex problems, actually succeeding in such endeavors is not so easy. This paper explores problems that may arise in multidisciplinary research teams, develops a grounded theory, and offers suggestions to help multidisciplinary research teams reach their goals. It also offers advice to educational administrators about how they can support multidisciplinary efforts in overcoming these potential difficulties.

Review Essay

Brooks, Ann, 1952-.
• Review Essay: Academic Women
  Subjects:
  • Women college teachers -- Great Britain -- Cross-cultural studies.
  • Reviewer: Twombly, Susan B.
  • Review title: New scholarship on academic women: beyond "women's ways".
  Abstract:
  Although the number of women academics has increased worldwide, there is still ample evidence that the academy is a patriarchal organization. This review examines four recent books on academic women. Collectively, they suggest that new scholarship on academic women is more international, reflects a postmodern attention to difference and power, rejects "women's ways" feminism as a sufficient response, and seeks to reclaim issues of power, authority, and politics through attention to policy.

Eggins, Heather, ed.
• Review Essay: Women as Leaders and Managers in Higher Education
  Subjects:
  • Women college administrators.
  • Reviewer: Twombly, Susan B.
  • Review title: New scholarship on academic women: beyond "women's ways".

Ferber, Marianne A., 1923-, ed.
Loeb, Jane W., ed.
• Review Essay: Academic Couples: Problems and Promises
  Subjects:
  • Academic couples -- United States.
  • Reviewer: Twombly, Susan B.
  • Review title: New scholarship on academic women: beyond "women's ways".

Marshall, Catherine, ed.
• Review Essay: Feminist Critical Policy Analysis II: A Perspective from Post-secondary Education
  Subjects:
  • Feminism and education.
  • Reviewer: Twombly, Susan B.
  • Review title: New scholarship on academic women: beyond "women's ways".