Seeking Full Citizenship: A Defense of Tenure Faculty Status for Librarians

The Need for Faculty Status and Uniform Tenure Requirements for Law Librarians

DAVID C . WEBER ' ' Tenure ' ' for Librarians in Academic Institutions

THE woRD "TENURE" is used by some academic libraries in the same sense in which it is applied to faculty appointments of professorial rank. A considerable number of directors of other academic libraries would follow the spirit of faculty tenure but would apply the term in a special way to the appointments of librarians. What is the basis for this special meaning of tenure in the case of librari...

Work-family balance and academic advancement in medical schools.

OBJECTIVE This study examines various options that a faculty member might exercise to achieve work-family balance in academic medicine and their consequences for academic advancement. METHOD Three data sets were analyzed: an anonymous web-administered survey of part-time tenure track-eligible University of Illinois College of Medicine (UI-COM) faculty members conducted in 2003; exogenous data...

The "Multihued Palette" of Academic Librarianship

223 " The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex issues. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. To Huxley's famous list of those prone to oversimplification given an appropriate platform, I fear we must add the occasional academic adminis...

Productivity, Collaboration, and Citizenship in Academic Departments

Background: Junior faculty in academic departments must make two critical decisions. One is how to allocate their time and resources between departmental citizenship tasks and their research pursuits. Another is whether to pursue their research alone or in a group. Little is known how faculty make these decisions, or how departmental policies influence productivity, collaboration between facult...