Career In Higher Education Research Articles

Sustaining a Research Career in Higher Education

Sustaining a Research Career in Higher Education

Keep your work ethic fresh by reflecting on core values

Donna Heiland has seen a lot of change in her higher education career. Heiland, currently associate provost at the Pratt Institute, began her career in higher education as a professor of English at Vassar College, where she earned tenure.

South Africa's Youth Unemployment Dilemma: Whose Baby is it anyway?

Youth unemployment is a major concern to various different countries, including South Africa, which ranked fourth-worst in the global youth unemployment ratings in 2013 and 2014reaching rates of more than 50 percent. Entrepreneurship development and increased employability through appropriate skills development have been considered as possible solutions to this growing problem. The aim of this study is to determine perceptions of students pertaining their entrepreneurial outlook and perceived employability. Validated Entrepreneurship- and Employability Scales were used to determine entrepreneurial outlook and perceived employability perception. A total of 293 students from a South African University participated in this study. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, histograms, Pearson correlation, MANOVA and ANOVA. The findingsof this studyshow that student’sperceptions indicated that if they haveamore entrepreneurial outlook, it could strongly increase their employability. They also do not think that after the completion of their degrees that they would be more employable. A significance difference was found between year level of study, race, age, and perception of entrepreneurial outlook and employability variables of the students.They seem to have a realistic view when it comes to the risk of possible unemployment for some time after graduation. Based on these findings, it is suggested that introducing entrepreneurship training and employability programs (skills development) to students during the completion of their higher education career, could assist in the reduction of youth unemployment in South Africa.

South Africa’s Youth Unemployment Dilemma: Whose Baby is it anyway?

Youth unemployment is a major concern to various different countries, including South Africa, which ranked fourth-worst in the global youth unemployment ratings in 2013 and 2014reaching rates of more than 50 percent. Entrepreneurship development and increased employability through appropriate skills development have been considered as possible solutions to this growing problem. The aim of this study is to determine perceptions of students pertaining their entrepreneurial outlook and perceived employability. Validated Entrepreneurship- and Employability Scales were used to determine entrepreneurial outlook and perceived employability perception. A total of 293 students from a South African University participated in this study. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, histograms, Pearson correlation, MANOVA and ANOVA. The findingsof this studyshow that student’sperceptions indicated that if they haveamore entrepreneurial outlook, it could strongly increase their employability. They also do not think that after the completion of their degrees that they would be more employable. A significance difference was found between year level of study, race, age, and perception of entrepreneurial outlook and employability variables of the students.They seem to have a realistic view when it comes to the risk of possible unemployment for some time after graduation. Based on these findings, it is suggested that introducing entrepreneurship training and employability programs (skills development) to students during the completion of their higher education career, could assist in the reduction of youth unemployment in South Africa.

College nursing faculty job satisfaction and retention: A national perspective.

The need for registered nurses in the United States continues to grow. To meet this need for increased numbers of nurses, recruitment and retention of qualified nurse educators has become a priority. In addition, the factors associated with nursing faculties' intent to stay have emerged as important considerations for administrators. The concepts of job satisfaction and intent to stay become vital to recruiting and retaining nursing faculty. In the past decade few empirical studies have been conducted on a national scale to address job satisfaction and intent to stay in academia. The purpose of this retrospective study is to analyze variables of relationships with nurse faculty job satisfaction and intent to stay from data collected throughout the United States. The Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) survey was employed for the purposes of this study. Over 1350 nurse educators were included in the survey. The findings support a variety of modifiable variables that are viewed as important by nursing faculty. The strongest relationship was found to be institutional leadership. The implications can inform academic administrators seeking to retain nursing faculty.

DESENVOLVIMENTO PROFISSIONAL DE FORMADORES DE PROFESSORES INICIANTES DOS CURSOS DE LICENCIATURA

A investigação parte do pressuposto de que a presença de um corpo docente renovado vem atuando nos cursos de Licenciatura e de Pedagogia, contextos específicos da formação inicial de professores. Esses professores formadores vêm iniciando a carreira no Ensino Superior e parte dele carrega significativa experiência como professor do Ensino Básico. Saber como se constitui o desenvolvimento profissional desse formador, iniciante num segmento, o ensino superior, e, ao mesmo experiente no ensino básico, e refletir sobre sua percepção em relação a sua atuação e ao seu papel de formador de futuros professores se constituíram nos objetivos da pesquisa. Para este artigo serão analisados os dados da entrevista com um professor iniciante no curso de Licenciatura. O texto se ampara nos estudos de Marcelo Garcia (1999); Day (2001); Cunha (2005); Imbernón (2009, 2011); Vaillant e Marcelo (2012); dentre outros. Os resultados apontam que o professor percebe o processo de seu desenvolvimento profissional sempre em movimento, não linear, atravessado por diferentes fatores, com permanente sensação de incompletude; resgata a importância do período de trabalho na escola de educação básica para o seu desenvolvimento profissional e atuação como formador de professores.

How to love your job for 40 years

A career is about 40 years long. I'm in year 37 of my career in higher education. I have loved my career and loved every job that has made up my career. Now, mind you, I did not say I loved every day of every job that made up my career! But I really have loved every job. Here are my Pollyanna secrets of how to love your job for 40 years.

Opportunity or risk for higher education careers practitioners? An exploration of peer influence on career behaviours

A proportion of higher education (HE) students appear to be taking careers and employability support into their own hands, organising workshops, employer talks and networking events. Perhaps it’s time careers professionals stepped back and left them to it? Whether through transmittal of expectations or information, as ‘flesh and blood’ role models, collaborators or supporters, there is much to suggest peer influence could be better harnessed as a means of increasing and deepening opportunities for students’ career learning. Drawing on this, implications for the design and delivery of HE careers and employability support are considered.

Health administration faculty diversity in the United States with recommendations to China

Research hospitals/academic medical centers have a threefold mission of patient care, research and education. The meaning of education is to train students with both clinical and administrative personnel in order to better suit themselves in the health care industry. Health administration programs are proliferating in China and the United States due to the influence of their recent health reform movements. In China, health administration programs are staffed with faculty from clinical medicine and management, mostly from their university affiliated medical centers. However, health administration program faculty in the United States have a diverse set of industry backgrounds and bring an invaluable wealth of experience into the classroom. The authors provide a literature background on the often-followed paths that a person in the US might take while pursuing a full time teaching career in higher education. A health administration faculty typology has been well developed, and concentrating on the following professional roles: a healthcare operator, an academic/educational administrator, a consultant, a clinician and a researcher. Thus, the authors discuss anecdotal data that they have collected on the perceived positives and negatives associated for each type. The authors conclude with providing recommendations to both Chinese and American programs to produce a more collegial and collaborative academic environment.

Curriculum homeplacing as complicated conversation: (re)narrating the mentoring of Black women doctoral students

ABSTRACTThrough personal and dialogical narratives, we explore the ways Black women mentors (do not) reveal to their mentees their lived-experiences and the personal pain associated with the pursuit of careers in higher education; how and why their narratives of pain and pursuit are negotiated, sanctioned, and/or strategically altered; and the impact these decisions have on the development of Black women graduate students. Drawing on hooks’ notions of ‘imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’ (2015), ‘radical honesty’ (2004), and ‘homeplace’ (1990), we deploy the concept of curriculum homeplacing to more critically examine Black women’s mentoring relationships.

Doctoral Students in Music Education

The purpose of this study was to examine music education doctoral students’ shifting occupational identity beliefs, career intent and commitment, and overall confidence for teaching in higher education. A total of 124 music education doctoral students, enrolled at 29 institutions of higher education in the United States, completed a onetime, 29-item online questionnaire. Participants identified more strongly as music teacher educators than as K–12 music teachers, and they were more committed to pursuing a career in higher education than K–12 teaching on completing their degree. However, participants who taught K–12 music concurrently during the degree were more likely to consider returning to K–12 teaching on degree completion. Music education doctoral students demonstrated confidence in their ability to train future K–12 music educators but lacked confidence in their ability to achieve a high-quality life balance in higher education. Implications for music education doctoral programs are discussed.

Academic nursing administrators' workplace satisfaction and intent to stay

BackgroundIn nursing education, the academic administrator is critical given the multitude of challenges associated with program delivery (e.g., shortages of faculty, strict and changing regulations for program accreditation, and the sheer demand for more nurses). Unfortunately, with the focus on recruiting and retaining new novice faculty to teach students, academic nursing administrators have been overlooked in recent studies. PurposeAs such, this study aims to explore the workplace satisfaction and intent to stay of academic nursing administrators by considering their relation to a variety of demographic and work related variables. MethodsA secondary data source was used from the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE). One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) with post hoc Fisher's Least Significant Difference tests and t-tests were used in the analysis. Discussion/ConclusionResults indicate that several modifiable work factors positively relate to both job satisfaction and intent to stay.

Análisis y mejora del proceso de formación de la carrera de ingeniería industrial de la Universidad Técnica de Manabí y su influencia en la acreditación

Abstract— The paper presents an analysis related to the results of self-evaluation of careers in higher education, highlighting the particularities in the career of industrial engineering at the Technical University of Manabí. an analysis related to the results of a profiled to identify weaknesses in the quality of training of students, which developed in the Industrial Engineering of higher learning and an improvement plan is presented research is available to achieve obtain the quality demanded by the CEAACES (Council of evaluation and quality Assurance in Higher Education to achieve accreditation.
 Index Terms— accreditation career, self-assessment, training processes, improvement plan

Mentoring the Next Generation of Higher Education Professionals

ABSTRACTThe loss of significant faculty members comes at a time when public and community expectations for institutions of higher learning have expanded. Public skepticism and the demands for accountability have resulted in greater attention being given to learning outcomes, subject matter, knowledge, proficiency, and capability. This article adds to our understanding of how graduate school operates as a socialization process for individuals who seek an academic career in higher education. Moreover, this article will focus specifically on the challenge of preparing and socializing doctoral students of color to the academy. New expectations require that substantive changes take place in the socialization process of graduate doctoral students in kinesiology if new faculty are to experience an academic environment that is rewarding.

La voz de los estudiantes de primer año en seis países: evaluación de sus experiencias en estudios superiores científico-técnicos

Resumen Este estudio analiza la valoración de los estudiantes de seis países latinos sobre sus experiencias de primer año en educación superior de ciencias, tecnologías, ingenierías y matemáticas (CTIM). El objetivo es ofrecer pruebas empíricas sobre la importancia de distintos factores determinantes de la permanencia en los cursos universitarios de CTIM. Los estudiantes respondieron el cuestionario del proyecto Interés y Reclutamiento en Ciencia (IRIS); se presentan las respuestas relativas a las percepciones de los estudiantes sobre experiencias, expectativas cumplidas y valoración de resultados académicos. Se identifican los factores más y menos importantes, los perfiles nacionales de los seis países y las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres; aparecen muchas diferencias significativas entre países y algunas diferencias entre hombres y mujeres . Se discuten las implicaciones de los resultados para orientar las políticas institucionales que mejoren el reclutamiento, la retención (evitación del abandono) y la equidad de género en los cursos CTIM.

Distance Learning Engineering Students Languish Under Project-Based Learning, But Thrive in Case Studies and Practical Workshops

The International Engineering Alliance lists 12 important graduate attributes that students must demonstrate during their higher educational career. One of these important graduate attributes is the ability to solve problems, which can be demonstrated by the use of project-based learning, case studies, and practical workshops. The purpose of this paper is to highlight student academic results of practical work done in an electrical engineering qualification that feature these three pedagogies. These three pedagogies are used in an open-distance learning environment to assess engineering students in an electrical engineering qualification involving three separate electronic communication modules. A time-lag study using a nonexperimental descriptive design is employed. Results show that the most frequent student grade for practical workshop assignments was 80%, while the most frequent student grade for case study assignments was 70%. However, the most frequent student grade for project-based learning assignments was 50%. The results show that distance learning engineering students languish under project-based learning, while they thrive in case studies and practical workshops. Possible reasons are given for this, based on the challenges faced by students engaging with these three pedagogies.

Story telling, career assessment and career counselling: A higher education case study

Narrative and storied approaches to career counselling have become more prominent in recent decades. This paper presents a case study of a Xhosa-speaking woman who presented for career counselling in a South African higher education career service. It describes how career assessment can be incorporated into a story telling approach to career counselling in order to facilitate a holistic exploration of an individual client’s career situation. The My System of Career Influences (MSCI) (Adult) reflection process and a career values card sort were utilized within a career counselling intervention based on a story telling approach to career counselling. Suggestions are offered for career counsellors and also counsellor educators.

Consider creative approaches to balancing family with career

ORLANDO, FLA. — Finding the right balance between family and work certainly has its challenges for any parent. But that juggle becomes even more challenging when you have a career in higher education, with its long hours and events that often overlap into nights and weekends. It's further complicated if you're a single parent or if your career takes you far from the support of extended family.

Changing employer practices in graduate recruitment: Implications for career development

A major study of the changing graduate recruitment practices of UK employers, was conducted during 2014 by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) and the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU) for the Department for Business, lnnovation and Skills (BIS). It involved in-depth interviews with 76 employers (diverse by size and sector) and 30 'stakeholders' in graduate employment, including university careers services. The qualitative data were complemented by analysis of existing quantitative data on graduate employment and a wide ranging literature review. This article reports on selected findings relevant to career development professionals, including: the challenges for employers of attracting appropriate applicants; employers' generic skill needs and views on employability; the changing reasons and criteria for targeting specific higher education (HE) institutions; and employers' increasingly strategic use of work experience in graduate recruitment .

Reflections on Academic Liberalism and Conservative Criticism

Liberal bias in academia is a complex sociological issue. The empirical evidence suggests that part of the explanation for ideological imbalance is that conservatives tend to self-select out of careers in higher education. We examine the explanation offered by Neil Gross that political-typing is partially responsible. While we are generally receptive to this explanation, our own research provides some evidence that college students do not find academia to be a hostile or unpleasant place. This raises some questions about why they would self-select out of careers in academia. We also offer alternative explanations for conservative criticism of the academy and suggest that institutions of higher education have some responsibility for creating the impression that they are hostile to conservative views.