This case study describes how faculty members at Grinnell College, a small, highly selective undergraduate liberal arts college, create and maintain what in many ways is an ideal Writing Across the Curriculum program. Curricular elements of this program have been in place for more than twenty years: the tutorial, where Grinnell students focus on writing intensively in a one-semester course taug...

This article first examines the ideological composition of American university faculty and then tests whether ideological homogeneity has become self-reinforcing. A randomly based national survey of 1643 faculty members from 183 four-year colleges and universities finds that liberals and Democrats outnumber conservatives and Republicans by large margins, and the differences are not limited to e...

Despite the widespread employment of part-time faculty in community colleges, there is little known about the commitment levels of these faculty, or how it compares to their full-time counterparts. The purpose of this study was to determine if the levels of affective, continuance, and normative commitment for full-time faculty differed significantly from part-time faculty in North Carolina comm...

Authors’ current positions and affiliations 1) Assistant Professor, CCRF Professorship in Spine Biomechanics and Human Neurophysiology, College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba 2) Assistant Professor, Research Department, New York Chiropractic College 3) Scientific Director, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, Canadian Institutes of H...

The nursing shortage is exacerbated by the faculty shortage, as faculty approach retirement age and too few faculty exist to replace them. Masters-prepared nurse with limited preparation for teaching may be unable to attend traditional educational programs because of work and family commitments. Without further academic preparation, these nurses are illprepared for the faculty role. The College...

J.R. Krishnamoorthy1, M.S. Ranjith2, S. Gokulshankar3, B.K. Mohanty4, R. Sumithra5, S. Ranganathan1 and K. Babu6 1Dr JRK Siddha Research and Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd, Chennai, 2Microbiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Quest International University Perak, Ipoh 3Microbiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, AIMST University, 4Pharmacology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, UniKL-Royal College of Medicine Perak,...

Affiliations: Tatiana Christides, Department of Life and Sports Science, Faculty of Engineering & Science, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom David Wray, Department of Pharmaceutical, Chemical & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering & Science, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom Richard McBride, Department of Life and Sports Science, Faculty of Engineering & Science, Universit...