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Parenting On The Tenure Track: Exploring Gender Differences In Perceptions Of Collegial And Supervisor Support, Diane Loeffler, Gretchen Ely, Chris Flaherty
Parenting On The Tenure Track: Exploring Gender Differences In Perceptions Of Collegial And Supervisor Support, Diane Loeffler, Gretchen Ely, Chris Flaherty
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The task of gaining a tenured professorship is demanding one, requiring a wide range of research, teaching, writing and service skills. Faculty members in tenure track professor positions do not work conventional hours and generally report schedules exceeding 50 hours of work per week (Zimbler, & Conley, 1997). Many pretenure professors are also parents of children under age 18, thus requiring that they nurture family relationships while also adhering to a demanding work schedule. While women make up over half of doctoral graduates in the United States today, the literature indicates that they are less likely to go on to …
Making The Most Of Post-Tenure Review, Don Smith
Making The Most Of Post-Tenure Review, Don Smith
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Governing boards have the unenviable duty of trying to oversee in a responsible and responsive way a complex and long-enduring social institution whose arcane workings few board members, administrators, or faculty ever fully comprehend. Enduring social institutions of any kind are, of course, like great leviathans borne by currents and instincts in ways and directions they need not understand in their continuing pursuit of sustenance and self-preservation. However, if one is to effect any meaningful change in the values and conduct of the leviathan, one must take into account the environmental dynamics and motivational stimuli that determine the thing’s behavior. …