Exemplary senior faculty at research universities: Their guiding principles for balancing teaching and research

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Kalivoda
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Guiding Principles

3. On Building a University for the Common Good1

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Ingold
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Knowledge Economy ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common

<?page nr="45"?>Abstract Around the world, universities have been converted into agents of globalization, competing for business in the markets of the knowledge economy. To an ever-increasing extent, they are managed like corporations. The result has been a massive betrayal of the underlying principles of higher education. In both teaching and research, universities have reneged on their founding commitment to the pursuit of truth, and to the service of the common good. With their combination of overpaid managers, staff in precarious employment and indebted students, they are manifestly unsustainable. Rather than waiting for them to collapse, however, we need to start now to build the universities of the future, and to restore their civic purpose as necessary components of the constitution of a democratic society. This article first sets out the four principles—of freedom, trust, education and community—on which any university must be built, if it is to meet the challenges of our time. It will then go on to consider the meaning of the common good, and how universities of the future can be of service to it.

Teaching and Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-160
Author(s):  
James L. Heft
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts Colleges ◽  
Faculty Research ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Comprehensive Universities ◽  
Faith And Reason ◽  
Scholarly Production ◽  
The Relationship

Despite many attempts, there is little agreement of what counts for effective teaching and research. The different styles of four great teachers are examined, compared, and contrasted. Some basic elements, hard to quantify, are nonetheless identified. Realistic expectations for faculty research are discussed, the relationship between the quality of teaching and research is explained, and the importance that faith and reason play in the types of research Catholic universities should support is discussed. Finally, different forms of scholarship and the different expectations for scholarly production as research universities, comprehensive universities, and liberal arts colleges are examined, concluding that rigor can be defined in a variety of ways, not just by the number of articles published in refereed journals.

Negative Returns to Seniority: New Evidence in Academic Markets

ILR Review ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernt Bratsberg ◽  
James F. Ragan ◽  
John T. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
College Faculty ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
Economics Faculty ◽  
Faculty Research Productivity ◽  
New Evidence

Recent research has suggested that the long-observed negative association between seniority and pay among college faculty largely reflects below-average research productivity of senior faculty—a possibility that most earlier studies did not examine. Overlooked in both waves of studies, however, is match quality. Because the higher quality of the faculty/institutional match implied by higher seniority should, all else equal, result in higher salaries, failure to account for match quality inflates the estimated returns to seniority. Indeed, that positive bias, the authors find, is roughly equal in magnitude to the negative bias caused by failure to account for research quantity and quality. When they account for both match quality and faculty research productivity in an analysis of data on economics faculty at five research universities over a 21-year period, the authors estimate that, holding experience and other factors constant, the penalty for twenty years of seniority is 16% of salary.

scholarly journals Road to Success: A Guide for Doctoral Students and Junior Faculty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viswanath Venkatesh
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Phd Programs

This book provides guidance and tools to help PhD students and junior faculty members successfully navigate and mature through the various stages of an academic career. Senior faculty members can use this book as a source of ideas to advise their PhD students and junior colleagues. This book presents knowledge that is seldom imparted in PhD programs, and organizes the same as advice and tools related to achieving success at research, teaching and service, all while maintaining work-life balance. The advice and tools provided are based on years of experience of the author and guest contributors, who have successfully navigated many of the same challenges and mentored many PhD students and junior faculty members. This book is suitable both for those who seek careers in research universities or universities that promote greater balance across research, teaching and service.

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