By Michael F. Middaugh
"An useful source for any university and collage striving to satisfy the nationwide rate Commission's name to make what schools do and what it bills extra 'transparent' to the public."--Jacqueline E. King, director, federal coverage research, American Council on EducationDefining and measuring college productiveness are one of the such a lot important concerns for caliber and responsibility in better schooling. identified for assembling one of the most authoritative examine on school productivity--and for studying its influence on educational and institutional accountability--Michael F. Middaugh provides this entire quantity to aid campus execs construct better responsibility for college students, mom and dad, foundations, governmental organisations, and different involved ingredients. Middaugh first attracts from a examine learn funded by means of TIAA-CREF's Cooperative examine provide application and the Fund for Postsecondary schooling in the U.S. division of schooling. He then presents a brand new framework for reading school potency and emphasizes how the result of school paintings can develop into the simplest signs of productiveness. He additionally applies the joint examine findings to the duty of constructing benchmarks for college productiveness. Practitioners from any form of campus will discover a wealthy array of knowledge, important innovations, and appropriate examples.
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01-J1526 10/23/00 1:48 PM Page 23 01-J1526 10/23/00 1:48 PM Page 24 24 Understanding Faculty Productivity These variables are important in attempting to provide an environment wherein faculty can optimize their various job functions and components. But they do not address productivity issues. Now that we have a fair handle on how to measure what faculty do, the remainder of this book will focus on the issues of how much and how well they do it. These are the issues of concern to those outside the academy—issues that have not been adequately addressed.
Perhaps most significant was that young faculty were hired as teaching faculty but were promoted and granted tenure based on their record as researchers. The cold war and the race for outer space in the 1960s and 1970s further reinforced this pattern. Ernest L. Boyer, in his seminal report, Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate (1990), summarized the postwar changes in American higher education as follows: But even as the mission of American higher education was expanding, the standards used to measure academic prestige continued to be narrowed.
Liberal arts colleges: These institutions are primarily undergraduate colleges with major emphasis on baccalaureate degree programs. Liberal Arts I colleges award 40 percent or more of their baccalaureate degrees in liberal arts fields and are restrictive in admissions. Liberal Arts II colleges award fewer than 40 percent of their baccalaureate degrees in liberal arts fields or are less restrictive in their admissions. Two-year colleges: These institutions offer the associate certificate or degree programs and, with few exceptions, offer no baccalaureate degrees.