Dimensions of teaching: A cross-cultural study by Mohd Yusoff, Nurahimah

“…Responses from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) senior faculty members' perceptions about teaching were analyzed and compared to responses in studies conducted by Dunkin and Precians (1992), and Clawson (1994).Dunkin and Precians studied twelve award-winning teachers' ideas at the University of Sydney.Clawson, on the other hand, interviewed 26 tenured professors at the eight public four-year institutions of West Virginia.The study revolves around four dimensions of teaching: teaching as structuring learning, teaching as motivating learning, teaching as encouraging activity and independence in learning, and teaching as establishing interpersonal relations conducive to learning.…”
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Science (without) youth: Gendering Early Academic Careers in Slovenia by Ana Hofman

“…The book is a result of the GARCIA project that targets combating gender inequalities in academia by taking an innovative approach – focusing on researchers in non-tenured, temporary positions. …”
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La porta di cristallo: un nuovo indice per rilevare l’impatto di genere della riforma Gelmini sull’accesso alla professione accademica by Ilenia Picardi

“…In analogy with the Glass Ceiling Index, that gives a measure of difficulties for women in moving into highest positions, The Glass Door Index is defined to quantify gender asymmetry in the access to tenured positions in academia. Subverting the received view, according to which equal opportunity in access to academic and research career is no more an issue, the analysis of data provided by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research (MIUR) reveals significant differences between the careers of women and men at the earliest career stage, and shows the strengthening of a gendered selection in the access to the academic profession to the disadvantage of women, after the implementation of the reform.…”
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Due indianisti e una Commissione. Carlo Formichi, Oreste Nazari e il progresso degli studi sanscritici in Italia by Crisanti, Alice

“…Specifically, it builds on the unpublished documents from the works of the October 1905 Examination Commission – consisting of Michele Kerbaker, Emilio Teza, Fausto Gherardo Fumi, Paolo Emilio Pavolini, and Ernesto Giacomo Parodi – tasked with assessing the scientific and academics titles of Carlo Formichi and Oreste Nazari, who had held temporary Sanskrit chairs in Pisa and Palermo since 1901, in view of promoting them to tenured positions. This is a valuable case-study to understand the dynamics of the development of Indian studies in post-unification Italy, as well as the reciprocal influences between scholars and the reception of contemporary publications in the Orientalistic field. …”
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Devenir chercheur ou enseignant chercheur : le goût pour la recherche des doctorants à l’épreuve du marché du travail by Claire Bonnard, Julien Calmand, Jean-François Giret

“…Our research examines the reasons that lead young people to enroll in a doctoral program, to choose an academic career and finally, to find a tenured job. Using a survey implemented by the Cereq on university leavers, our results show that the “taste” for research they have when they enter in higher education and their social capital strongly influence their academic and professional careers. …”
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Housing, debt and the economy: a tale of two countries by Muellbauer, J

“…A sensibly regulated rental market and stable German house prices have combined to leave the rental sector with over half of tenures. Policy failures in the UK have resulted in widening intergenerational inequality, increased social exclusion, adversely affected productivity and growth and raised the risk of financial instability. …”

Housing, debt and the economy: a tale of two countries by Muellbauer, J

“…A sensibly regulated rental market and stable German house prices have combined to leave the rental sector with over half of tenures. Policy failures in the UK have resulted in widening intergenerational inequality, increased social exclusion, adversely affected productivity and growth and raised the risk of financial instability. …”

Moving from surviving to thriving: a taxonomy of beginning science teacher challenges by Joel D. Donna, Gillian H. Roehrig

“…This qualitative study examines challenges as expressed within an online induction program for non-tenured Science educators with data from synchronous chat room sessions between mentors and beginning teachers. …”
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Les enseignants en seconde carrière : un vivier de recrutement aux motivations spécifiques ? by Victoria David

“…Analyses based on a quantitative methodology show that tenured teachers retraining in French general secondary education have a lower extrinsic motivation score than their first career counterparts. …”
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THE END OF POWER : FROM BOARDROOMS TO BATTLEFIELDS AND CHURCHES TO STATES, WHY BEING IN CHARGE ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE / by Naím, Moisés author 456293

The Threat to Academic Freedom and the Contingent Scholar by Lincoln R. Rice

“…The active censorship of adjuncts by departments that edit their syllabi and reserve the teaching of certain classes for tenured faculty. As the adjunctification of colleges continue, these dilemmas will only become more pronounced. …”
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From the Editor by Bulent Tarman

“…Also many academic institutions around the world equally consider Scopus and SSCI in their promotion and tenured policies.…”
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Are Teachers Satisfied With Their Evaluations? The Importance of Teaching Context and Trends Over Time by Lauren Sartain, Wesley T. Morris

“…However, satisfaction declined following the implementation of the district’s more rigorous evaluation system, driven by tenured teachers’ differentially negative impressions. …”
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Surviving Situational Suffering: A Classic Grounded Theory Study of Post-Secondary Part-Time Educators in the United States by Barry Chametzky, PhD

“…It is therefore valuable to understand what the issues are for these on-demand, non-tenured faculty members. The theory of surviving situational suffering explains how part-time adjunct educators in the United States resolve their main concern—maintaining employment—within a context of reduced appreciation, underutilization, and ingratitude. …”
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Can Central Banking Policies Make a Difference in Financial Market Performance in Emerging Economies? The Case of India by Gagan Deep Sharma, Mandeep Mahendru, Mrinalini Srivastava

“…The paper presents an analysis of returns and volatility in stock markets and currency markets in their tenures in comparison with those from other selected emerging markets (Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa) and developed markets (USA and UK). …”
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Shadow Banking – Developments in Times of Financial Crisis by Bogdan Munteanu

“…The paper considers the following entities and activities, without limitation to or completenessof viewpoints: finance companies, asset backed financial instruments, structured investments,financing vehicles, money market funds, asset managers, credit hedge funds and venture capital,providing characteristics of shadow banking and their economic functions relative to the classicbanking system, as they pose a systemic risk due to asymmetric information and gaps created inmatching liquidity tenures with duration, by using synthetic leverage finance.…”
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Positionality, ‘the field,’ and implications for knowledge production and research ethics in land change science by Heidi Hausermann, Janet Adomako

“…We examine how our positionalities – as a black, Ghanaian graduate student and a white, tenured professor – produce differential fieldwork relations. …”
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Job stress and university faculty members’ life satisfaction: The mediating role of emotional burnout by Yin Xu, Yike Wang

“…As one of the leading work-related health problems arising from increasingly fierce competition, work-related stress has become a significant predictor of the reduced wellbeing of university faculty members, especially for non-tenured junior faculty members. In light of this and based on a survey, this research seeks to examine how and why work-related stress impacts the life satisfaction level of university junior faculty members. …”
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Deal with it : negotiating the constraints of HDB home spaces. by Woo, Dianne Shu Mei.

“…Constraints experienced include such as uniform spaces, inability to influence rigid external features, strict policies, short tenures and high costs. The Singaporean must balance regulation, institution and the fulfilment of his private life. …”
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Becoming a scholar: Everything I needed to know I learned on sabbatical by Steven Maranville

“…As such, the goal of this essay is to discuss matters of professional development for tenured business professors at teaching-oriented universities. …”
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