Determining student-faculty ratios and faculty scholarship levels/rates.

The Scholarship Assignment Problem

There are n graduate students and n faculty members. Each student will be assigned a scholarship by the joint faculty. The socially optimal outcome is tbat the best studcnt should get the most prestigious scholarship, the second-best student should get the second most prcstigious scholarship, and so on. The socially optimal outcome is common knowledge among all faculty members. Each professor w...

Are There Instructional Differences Between Fulltime and Parttime Faculty?

Using data from 8 academic departments and 361 courses taught during a semester, I examined differences between fulltime and parttime faculty in the areas of general demographic variables, student evaluation of teaching outcomes, and the distribution of grades earned. I expected fulltime faculty to exhibit higher teaching evaluations and less lenient grade distributions, yet neither hypothesis ...

Ac 2007-1511: Student Engagement and Faculty Scholarship

The Elimination of Waste in Higher Education: Prescriptions for Doing the Right Things the Right Way

Purpose: The authors defined waste in higher education and describe proven strategies to reduce waste, from and engineering and technical background, informed by HE administrative perspectives. It is important to categorize waste and then prioritize it because effort should be spent on eliminating the waste that has the greatest potential to improve the efficiency of the entire system. Waste ca...

Being uninformed on informed consent: a pilot survey of medical education faculty

BACKGROUND This paper describes a pilot survey of faculty involved in medical education. The questionnaire focuses on their understanding of IRB policies at their institution, specifically in relation to the use of student assessment and curriculum evaluation information for scholarship. METHODS An anonymous survey was distributed to medical educators in a variety of venues. Two brief scenari...