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Becoming a college professor was not in Oubria Tronshaws career plans as she made her way through college. She dreamed of being a creative writer, not an English professor. This [...]

Plans to boost the number of doctors working in the NHS are under threat from a shortage of medical academics at universities in the United Kingdom, the BMA has warned. [...]

Abstracts This study addressed faculty recruitment for community colleges, an issue of immediate importance because many faculty hired during the enrollment boom of the 1960's are retiring. The design for [...]

The author examines keys to ensuring the success of educational assessment programs involving college faculty. A model of work and values is presented, linking concepts such as developing new questions and interpretations with honesty, consistency, and originality.

Byline: DENNIS M. BARDEN I have spent some time this summer on the conference circuit. National organizations that provide training for aspiring campus leaders bring them together at the close [...]

Byline: FRANCIS X. ROCCA Spain's cabinet has approved legislation that would give universities greater autonomy in faculty hiring, but which critics warn could lead to a resurgence of academic inbreeding, [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK To the 100,000 or so European academics now living and working in the United States, the European Union has a message: Come home! Or at least come [...]

Byline: DENNIS M. BARDEN Last month I opined that the hiring practices of far too many colleges and universities are inefficient at best and self-destructive at worst (The Chronicle, May [...]

Byline: PHILIP RUBIN In two years on the job market in English, I gained considerable familiarity with the position of runner-up. Even in saying so, I feel the inherent ambivalence [...]

Byline: DENNIS M. BARDEN We hear it all the time in academe: 'The most important part of leadership is hiring the right people.' Hiring is so critical that an entire [...]

Byline: ROBERT N. WEAVER We had three candidates: Dan, Barbara, and Christine. Deciding among them would have been difficult enough in a normal search, but this was a joint hire. [...]

Byline: EMILY TOTH Question (from 'Laird'): I'm an ex-scholar who'd like to return and teach English -- but all of the institutions want three letters of reference, besides a cover [...]

With the Supreme Court re-examining affirmative action in higher education in its new term, the topic of race and access to a college education returns as a familiar visitor to [...]

Byline: VIVIEN MARX An e-mail message circulating among many European postdoctoral fellows titled'Lord of the Rings as an Allegory for the Ph.D.' describes the trials and travails of a bright [...]

ALL INVOLVED are delicately dancing around the phrase 'brain drain' after four professors announced that they were leaving the University of Washington to join a former colleague at a new, [...]

The ocean of academic knowledge is now so wide and so deep that university administrators must rely on the incumbents in their departments to identify and train new hires. This is in direct contrast to a sports team, where management can readily identify new talent. It follows that aging academics get to enjoy tenure, whereas older athletes do not.

Academic recruitment and retention is suffering as staff struggle to balance the pressures of increased teaching, research and red tape, according to the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi). The warning comes as it is revealed that scholarly work is being distorted and academics polarised by pressure to teach more.

Young academics in the UK could experience a boom in job opportunities the likes of which hasn't been seen for a generation, according to statistics compiled by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The statistics reveal that many of the new universities have a high proportion of older staff which they will have to replace. The figures suggest that the new universities will be forced to replace thousands of staff.

My community college is in the throes of hiring new faculty. Each spring as we complete this process, I am struck again by the realization that many qualified applicants simply [...]

Aberdeen University's UKPd9 mil campaign to hire over 200 new staff members of 'outstanding intellectual quality' is examined. The three-year recruitment campaign was launched with the placement of an advert in The Times Higher in September 2003.

Leading universities in the United Kingdom are investing millions of pounds in academic posts in an attempt to bolster their research strengths ahead of the next research assessment exercise (RAE) in 2007. Four universities - Nottingham University, the University of East Anglia, Sheffield University and Aberdeen University - are in the market for more than 300 senior staff and professors as they attempt to turn success in the last RAE into long-term strategic advances.

TOKYO -- The job market for academic scientists has gone global. Job seekers routinely mail or e-mail applications across borders. Search committees are multinational, the better to ferret out candidates [...]

Princeton University has hired its first professor of Asian American history. Dr. Beth Lew-Williams, a fellow at Northwestern University, will join the school next spring and teach a course on [...]

When the National Advisory Council on Nursing Education and Practice (NACNEP) convened in early April 2002, Dr. Terry Valiga, director of Research and Professional Development at the NLN, spoke on [...]