Disposable Goods or Valued Resource [microform] : Appointment and Termination of Assistant Professors. ASHE 1987 Annual Meeting Paper / Dolores L. Burke
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- Burke, Dolores L
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1987
- 27 p.
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The question of whether assistant professors are valued resources at colleges was investigated and compared to findings of a 1957 study by Caplow and McGee. Based on actual personnel actions, interviews were conducted with 306 department heads, nonterminated faculty colleagues, and new appointees. The interviews were concerned with the appointment in the 1984-85 academic year of 96 assistant professors at three private and three public research universities and the termination of 87 assistant professors at the same institutions at the end of the 1983-84 academic year. As in the Caplow and McGee study, attention is directed to: the recruitment process, origination of the position, the search for candidates and interviewing, the representation of women and minorities among appointees, faculty dismissal, resignation, and the impact of departure. It was found that there was little proportional difference in the "share" of appointments given to assistant professors between 1957 and 1985. Two important changes in the screening process were the careful attention paid to the candidates' written work and the weight given to the campus interview. One change from 1957 is the increased number of dismissed assistant professors who left the field of higher education. It is concluded that the determination as to whether assistant professors are valued resources or disposable grads remains open and will come ultimately from the academic department. (SW)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (San Diego, CA, February 14-17, 1987).
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