Departmental Cultures and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty: Willingness, Capacity, and Opportunity to Perform at Four-Year Institutions

2013/03/01 by Adrianna Kezar · 26 citations
Engineering · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Business #Computer science #Differential (mechanical device) #Economic growth #Economics #Engineering #Evaluation of Teaching Practices #Higher Education Governance and Development #Higher Education Research Studies #Higher education #Marketing #Medical education #Medicine #Microeconomics #Political science #Public relations #Track (disk drive) #University faculty #Willingness to accept #Willingness to pay

paper · doi:10.1080/00221546.2013.11777284

published in The Journal of Higher Education 84(2), 153-188 (Taylor & Francis)

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Abstract

This article reports on a case study of 25 departments comparing those that have put policies and practices in place to support non-tenure-track faculty to those that have not to determine whether this impacts faculty willingness, capacity, and opportunity to perform. Four departmental cultures emerged related to differential outcomes.

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