Raymond Alexander Price O.C., Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.C., N.A.S. (USA), P.Eng.: 1933–2024

Innovation plays an important role in the operation and management of scientific research institutions. According to behavioural science theory, the human plays an important role in the operation and management of an organisation. As the subject of knowledge innovation, the main undertaker of its innovation performance is college professors. In order to explore the influence of different ego depletion on the solution of college professors' insight problem. This paper uses the eye movement experiment to explore the process of solving the insight problems. It is found that there are significant differences between college professors in solving insight problems under different ego depletion. The difference of ego depletion in gender is insignificant, but the difference in age is significant. At the end, some suggestions are put forward to reduce the ego depletion of college professors, improve their innovative performance, and make the college operation and management more effective.

Given the importance of scientific research, which has become very crucial in this era and an important task for the university professor. Scientific research has an advantage for the university professor in rising the annual evaluation degree and in promoting to a higher academic rank and many others. In addition, it contributes in increasing the degree of evaluation of the department in the faculty as well as growing a university rank. There are a number of obstacles facing the university professor on the personal level and on the organizational level. This study attempts to determine the type of obstacles that a university professor faces as a scientific researcher, and suggests effective solutions and recommendations that assist boosting the number of annual researches for the scientific researcher. A questionnaire was constructed, with a total of (24) items based on previous studies, divided into four dimensions approved for its construction on several available studies. This research presented a section of them. The questionnaire was applied to a random sample of (143) individuals, faculty members at the University of Karbala. The results indicated that highest average for the obstacles are the personal obstacles with a relative importance of 2.90, followed by the data-related obstacles with 2.5, then the administrative obstacles with 1.96 and the last financial obstacles with 1.40. Several strategies can be applied to develop scientific research. the results of the study indicated that the most important ways to develop it from the viewpoint of faculty members were to provide the necessary financial support to finance research procedures, provide financial rewards in exchange for publishing research, provide modern references, cooperation between colleagues of faculty members in conducting research Joint, the university’s participation in global databases, increasing cooperation between the university and the concerned authorities in scientific research (such as ministries, institutions, and companies).

Teaching in research at the university level is a complex task that articulates, experience, methodology and research skills of the faculty. Developing research implies creativity, dedication of hours and the development of an innovative identity in university professors, which is a priority in higher education institutions. The objective of this study was to systematize the scientific evidence on the teaching of research in various disciplines at the university level. Verification was performed in the Eric, Scopus and Scielo databases between the years 2012 and 2021. A search equation was used with the terms included in the thesauri of "scientific research" and "teaching". The Boolean operators "AND" and "OR" were used and the exclusion and inclusion criteria of temporality, subject, language, type and accessibility to scientific literature were used. Twenty articles were identified that answered the question: What is the scientific evidence on university teaching in scientific research, identifying the pedagogical dimension, complexity of teaching, techniques and instruments, and predominance of teaching over research? The results indicate that university professors should be aware and should recognize that despite having extensive professional experience, they should improve their research skills, so as to offer a range of possibilities to students for research. It is concluded that whatever the discipline to be developed at the university level, scientific research should be strengthened through the reading of scientific articles, preferably housed in indexed scientific journals and belonging to or promoting research networks.
 
 Received: 17 November 2021 / Accepted: 22 February 2022 / Published: 5 May 2022

This article presents M. M. Bakhtin as a University professor through his own views of on the nature of university teaching: lecturing, seminars and colloquia, engaging students in debates and reflexive analysis of literary texts, “scientific thinking”, and working with bibliography. As a Chair of Russian and Foreign Literature department of the Mordovian National Pedagogical Institute (later the Mordovia State University), for a quarter of a century, Bakhtin was promoting teaching approaches that would support students’ informed, independent, analytical and reflexive learning. According to the minutes from different department meetings at his university, over the years, Bakhtin struggled to define and improve his own guidance and teaching in the Literature studies and the overall work of his department. His three pedagogical goals for a literary lecture were: 1) Communication of certain information on a given topic - establishing the level of students’ familiarity with the topic; 2) Fostering students’ scientific thinking; and 3) Fostering students’ aesthetic perception and taste. Some of his former students emphasized his erudition, pedagogic skill, and ability to stimulate his students’ imagination and reflective thinking.

The research aimed to analyze the contribution of scientific publications regarding the study of the development of research skills in university professors. The bibliographic review and documentary analysis of scientific articles published in different scientific databases were used as a study method. For the theoretical approach regarding the definition, importance and classification of research competences in university professors, the contributions of researchers who have published scientific articles in different databases were used; and for the study of background, the articles published in the Scopus database between 2018 and 2022 were used as a source of information. It was concluded that there are different studies that address the importance of developing their research skills in university teachers, which are associated with the improvement of their professional profile, teaching conditions in the training of professionals and their contribution to increasing the scientific production of universities through the formulation of scientific research and technological development projects and the publication of scientific articles in academic databases.

Emotional creativity (EC) refers to cognitive abilities and personality traits related to the originality of emotional experience and expression. Previous studies have found that the COVID-19 epidemic and the restrictions imposed increased the levels of negative emotions, which obstructed adaptation. This research suggests that EC predicts the motivation for innovative adaptive behavior under the restrictions of COVID-19. In the case study of university professors, we show that EC predicts the motivation to creatively capitalize on the imposed online teaching in looking for innovative research and personal development. Methodologically, we rely on the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) administered to a sample of 463 university professors (41.5% men, aged 22-100. M ± SD = 45.53 ± 11.46, median 44) from the Czech Republic (N = 137), Slovak Republic (N = 61), and Russia (N = 265). The indicators for motivation for innovative performance included motivations to use distant methods of scientific research, to look for partners for conducting scientific research in other cities or abroad, to conduct interdisciplinary research, starting distance learning to enhance qualifications, and the perception that due to online teaching, there is more time for personal development. We employ a set of ordinal regression analyses controlling for age, gender, position (lecturer, researcher, and manager), type of science (formal, natural, social, and applied), and country. The results suggest that Emotional Creativity and its three components predict the motivation of university professors to creatively capitalize on the imposed online teaching in looking for innovative research and personal development under the conditions of COVID-19. Furthermore, our results confirmed the gender and age differences in EC. The differences in EC according to position (lecturer, researcher, and manager) and type of science were not statistically significant. These results compel us to be aware of the importance of the emotional side of creativity to optimize stress-related behavior under the conditions of limited abilities to continue as usual. More space devoted to the manifestation of all the aspects of emotional creativity would improve adaptation to challenging circumstances and even allow one to capitalize on new opportunities. Moreover, we suggest that if personal intrinsic Emotional Creativity is high, the crises, such as the COVID-19 epidemic, may improve adaptation and trigger creative outcomes.

The present study investigates how Public Relations can upgrade effective communication between university professors and higher education administrators. The data was collected through a questionnaire handed out to 135 Moroccan university professors and administrators operating in more than 10 Moroccan public higher institutions. This study aims to show the importance of public relations communication as a propitious tool conducive to quality in higher education. The results of this study corroborate that the Moroccan university professors ’interaction with higher education administration is mainly compatible with some elements of public relations communication. The results also show that Moroccan university professors and higher education administrators are aware of the positive impact of effective communication on the university’s reputation and the good functioning of the teaching and scientific research at the tertiary level. The findings also reveal some aspects that hinder effective communication between university professors and administrators.

As in many countries, in Brazil science is conducted mostly inside universities by professors and their graduate students and post-docs. This article aims at assessing the circumstances under which university professors of a biological sciences institute of a public university are willing to adopt the term 'scientist' as a form of self-designation. Using an online questionnaire (n=21) and two focus groups (n=12) we investigated how these professionals call or describe themselves under different situations and for distinct publics. We found that most professors prefer not to call themselves a 'scientist'. They find it a natural choice not to use the term 'scientist' to designate their job in scientific research and believe that university professor is appropriate as well as it is a respectful title. However, the participants could envision possible impacts of this attitude on the general public and implications for the public perception of science and technology such as investment and science career choice. The origin of the word scientist and the history of the Brazilian scientific community are brought about to shed some light on the gathered data.

Purpose This work studied the influence of creativity-related traits in university professors’ scientific productivity. Design/methodology/approach A survey, applied to 120 university professors, included closed-ended questions for participants to rate 33 items derived from the specialized literature and classified into five dimensions (novelty; flexibility-fluidity; achievements-dedication; confidence; and problem-solving). After the survey was applied, data were merged with three other data sets: bibliometric data (Scopus), Altmetrics (Dimensions) and peer-reviews and editorial management (Publons) for the period from 2013 to 2018. Descriptive, correlational and inferential statistical analyzes were conducted on the data collected. Findings There was little relationship between professors’ creativity scores and their bibliometric and Altmetric indicators. The highest-rated creativity dimension was flexibility-fluidity and the most prominent creativity-related trait was “I perform my activities with dedication” (belonging to the achievements-dedication dimension). During the period studied, professors published 379 documents, but there were large gaps among their indicators; for instance, only 61 professors published in journals indexed in Scopus during the period. The inferential analysis implied that the professors with the best indicators did not present substantial differences in their creativity scores when compared to their colleagues with fewer or no indicators. However, descriptive and correlational insights may aid in fostering the aspects that can positively influence creativity and the indicators studied. Originality/value Although there is a wealth of literature about the study of creativity and part of it tackles creativity and scientific research at a theoretical level, this paper did not find other empirical studies that analyzed the relationship between creativity and scientific production. It might be important for librarians to be familiar with user studies such as the present, as they may consider studying these kinds of aspects in their users. Moreover, this study can be interesting because librarians have increasingly been involved in the evaluation of scientific production and in training processes for enhancing it within their institutions. Here, information professionals have found opportunities to improve users’ knowledge, performance and experiences on digital scientific ecosystems and their indicators.

The woman is considered the first nucleus of the family and the main pillar of its construction and cohesion. Whatever is said about her, we cannot fulfill her right due to the multiplicity and intertwining of her roles. Therefore, we decided to single her out for study in an important aspect, which is the aspect of teaching in higher education institutions. The subject of educational performance is one of the topics that has occupied the interest of many researchers and specialists in educational sciences because it is linked to the success of the educational process at all stages and levels, might the most important of which is the stage of higher or university teaching . Talking about educational performance prompts us to talk about the university professor, specifically the female component of it , and her role in helping students to gain learning experiences that they employ when needed, whether in their academic or practical lives, and this can only be achieved by choosing the most effective and appropriate methods to communicate with them , this has a positive aspect achieving psychological and social compatibility with her . The role of the female university professor in higher teaching institutions is no less important than the role of her sisters in other institutions, but rather exceeds it, because it is linked to the formation of generations in terms of knowledge, emotional and behavioral that qualify them to practice their professional lives away from pressure and confusion, and this requires them to have high pedagogical, academic and professional competencies. The importance of this study lies in the fact that it pertains to the category of higher teaching professors, and more precisely the female element, which is rarely taken into a special study in the framework of research and scientific studies, despite the great efforts that you make within university institutions and the reconciliation between their roles within the university and their family circumstances. The importance of this study also lies in considering its results as a message to the concerned authorities to pay more attention to the category of female university professors and improve their professional conditions in order to reach a better return. The aim of this study is to identify the relationship between the educational performance of the female university professor and achieving psychological and social compatibility with her students, in addition to detecting the differences among the female university professors in the educational performance according to the variable of teaching experience and scientific qualification . Based on the foregoing, the following questions were raised: -Is there a correlation between the educational performance of the female university professor and achieving psychological and social compatibility with her? . Are there differences in the educational performance of female university professors according to the teaching experience variable? - Are there differences in the educational performance of female university professors according to the scientific qualification variable? - Are there differences in the educational performance of female university professors according to the variable of age?

The topic area of this paper is the university professorship of professionals who are currently teaching and who have their first degree in Pedagogy. This reflection on professors’ professional development justifies itself bearing in mind an ever-changing reality, which significantly affects the goals and importance of education, hence the training of professors. This paper’s line of research is Knowledge and Educational Practices. Its objectives are to “investigate, study and understand which pedagogical input professors whose initial training was in pedagogy, have in their practice in the classroom. It also aimed at signaling the interactions that these professors establish with their peers and their teaching organization by means of the following study categories: conceptions of university professorship, professional training and professorship knowledge. The issue of studying university professorship, in general, has become a challenge in the academic milieu. Scientific research in this field of study has been intensified lately by researchers such as: Cunha (2005, 2002); Masetto (2012, 2003, 2001); Malusá (2012, 2005, 2001); Melo (2012, 2009); Pimenta and Anastasiou (2010); Tardif (2011, 2000); Zabalza (2004), among others. Nevertheless, there are difficulties as regards research references on professors who hold a degree in Pedagogy in Graduate Teaching. This paper is an exploratory-analytical research with both quantitative and qualitative approaches using mixed tools – closed affirmations ( Likert five-point Scale), and three open questions (Bardin Content Analysis). As target- group, we had the participation of 24 IES – Higher Degree Educational Institution pedagogues / professors. In summary, the findings have shown that in relation to professors’ teaching conceptions, there is no unity among the researched professors. They preferred not to speak out frequently choosing a more neutral position in their answers. Considering the area of professional development, these professors valued a specific, continual training and reflexive pedagogical practice. As far as professorship knowledge, the answers aligned in the direction of a more innovative paradigm; actually this is how they see their own pedagogical practice: innovative. They believe that the transformation of the world of knowledge and that of the world of work have a direct impact on their practices, yet they expressed a conservative behavior as regards planning their subjects.

A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2023 meeting by 2023 Priestley Medal winner Cato T. Laurencin, the University Professor and Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Connecticut. I’m very proud and honored to receive the 2023 Priestley Medal, the highest honor of the American Chemical Society. I am here to discuss with you regenerative engineering, which is my field. I am Dr. Cato Laurencin. I am the University Professor and the Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Connecticut. I am professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, professor of materials science and engineering, and professor of biomedical engineering. I work in the area of musculoskeletal tissue regeneration, relying heavily on principles of chemistry and materials science. At this point, I and my team have been

Background: Awareness about the actual information needs is a necessity in correct decision making for developing or improvement of information centers. This study aimed on investigating the information needs of students and university professors of Birjand University of Medical sciences. Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study conducted in 2009, 422 students were selected based on systematic random sampling and the university professors were chosen by studied by the census method using a designed questionnaire. Data analysis was done using the Chi-square test and SPSS software. Results: Among the 422 cases, 82.7% were students and 17.3 professors. 39.8% of the latter group considered the most important reason for searching the scientific resources, educational and research purposes. 47.6% of the students also mentioned educational purposes. 81.8% of the professors used English language resources while 91.5% of the students used Persian language literature. 53% considered the library resources useful in overcoming their needs. Among the official resources books with 86.4% and from unofficial resources taking part in scientific congresses with 53.4% were the most needed resources among the studied professors showing a significant difference between them and the students. Conclusions: The university professors and students required information databases, journals and books more than other resources. Students used the English resources to a much lower degree for their educational and research activities while the resources available in the university library fulfilled their needs mild to moderately.

Aristotle pioneered the scientific method (SM) 2,409 years ago, from 384-322 BCE. René Descartes renewed it 2,034 years later in 1650. But unattended long-term change has rendered the SM and its university delivery portal incapable of providing solutions to contemporary problems. Underpinned by the pragmatic paradigm. The dead horse theory (DHT), and the epistemological principle that knowledge be updated regularly for relevance and currency, the authors used heuristics and the literature review methods to add 7 dimensions, and assure the SM and the university’s mutual goal of providing apt solutions to the wicked problems of industry 4.0 and incoming industry 5.0. This is a conceptual paper. Findings: Conceptual additions and subtractions were the means by which the SM was renewed, kept current and relevant; It took 108 years, on average, to renew the SM yet the current version of the SM has not been updated in 375 years; Unattended change has rendered science, the SM and the university incapable of providing solutions to industry 4.0 problems; Science and the SM are not the only methods of discovery and knowing; For their methodological unilateralism, science and the SM have condemned discovery to lower order thinking skill (LOTS), and to the five limitations of the senses, mind thinking, inability to appropriately define simple concepts such as consciousness, the material realm and the silo of STEM subjects. Recommendation: Scientists, the Policy regime, and university professors and teachers have to become humble and admit that the past 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th-century science and version of the SM have run their due course, but that these have their limitations. The most viable solution is methodological triangulation, leading to the Biblical Scientific Method (BSM) for imparting society with the higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) needed to solve the wicked industry 4.0 and industry 5.0 problems.

The purpose of the study is to understand the barriers to university professors' ability to conduct scientific research on an economic, administrative, personal, health, and safety level. Knowing the statistical relationship between the research variables and the theories used in this study, it was (the theory of human needs and describing the motives that drive him) with (the personal theory of human needs as the motivation that drives him to achieve). Because this research is quantitative, it relied heavily on the analytical descriptive approach, with the social survey approaches. The questionnaire form was chosen as the type of tools and method for gathering information, and it was distributed to (34) university professors in the two faculties of education using Koya University as an example. This was done in order to determine the quality of the sample. In the end, the most significant research findings were identified from the field side, and that the majority of the teaching staff from both categories held the scientific titles of professor or assistant professor, with their percentage reaching professor (41.2%), which was followed by the degree of professor. In regards to the research's focus on the existence of constraints, it was evident from the findings that the percentage of economic constraints came with the highest percentage, including the delay in the date of salaries for their duration, and that this was followed by responses about the existence of health, safety, and administrative constraints, which came by (44.2%), providing evidence of the existence of constraints on average. Additionally, it was determined that political parties' interference in university affairs reached (67.6%) degrees, that there are personal obstacles, such as family issues, and that they have an impact on scientific ability to a certain extent, and that at the conclusion of the research, it was determined that a set of proposals and recommendations be made to address the situation of university professors and identify obstacles and their impact on them.