Success In Academia Research Articles

Achieving Occupational Role: Accommodations for Students with Disability

The purpose of this paper is to describe background and strategies utilized by occupational therapy educators in conjunction with Disabled Students Services personnel and students with disabilities to effect academic accommodations that will enhance their chances for success in academia and subsequently in the practice of occupational therapy.

Achieving Occupational Role: Accommodations for Students with Disability

The purpose of this paper is to describe background and strategies utilized by occupational therapy educators in conjunction with Disabled Students Services personnel and students with disabilities to effect academic accommodations that will enhance their chances for success in academia and subsequently in the practice of occupational therapy.

Indiana Jane and the Temples of Doom: Recommendations for Enhancing Women and Racial/Ethnic Faculty's Success in Academia

Despite a body of literature which has identified the difficulties of new/junior women and racial/ethnic faculty members' socialization into the academic culture, many continue to experience feelings of alienation, disenfranchisement, and marginalization. This article depicts the experiences of representative new women and racial/ethnic faculty to illustrate the realities faced by these faculty in entering and managing the academic environment. Recommendations for enhancing the success of women and racial/ethnic faculty are provided and divided into four levels of responsibility at the university, departmental, senior faculty/faculty mentors, and new/junior faculty levels.

The status of academic women in the 1990s No longer outsiders, but not yet equals

This paper reexamines the status of women in the academic labor market relative to men to determine how much progress has been made in achieving equity. Two questions will be addressed here: (1) do men and women have equal access to faculty employment in higher education, and (2) are they equally successful with regard to traditional career goals and compensation? Analyses are conducted on the educational attainment of women, their representation among faculty, their time allocation and research productivity, and their success in academia as represented by their rank attainment and earnings. While the results show that women have made considerable strides in entering the academic labor market, there is still an unexplained gap between men and women in terms of their earnings and career progression.

Success in Academia: Navigating the Introduction Stage of the Faculty Career Life Cycle

Assistant marketing professors begin their careers with the objective of becoming productive researchers, effective teachers, and capable servers. This article reports results of a study undertaken with 83 of the marketing discipline’s newest faculty members. These educators were asked to evaluate the preparation they had received as doctoral students and provide suggestions for improving the doctoral student to faculty member transition. Results indicate assistant marketing professors feel significantly better prepared for the challenges associated with research than they do teaching. Respondents’ suggestions for improving doctoral program preparation in regards to both teaching and research are also summarized.

In Search of Token Women in Academia

Women faculty in predominantly male departments at a large university were interviewed and responded to paper-and-pencil instruments in a test of Laws' analysis of the necessity for the “token women” adaptation to their marginality for success in academia. By multiple criteria, three clusters were identified: (a) token women, who accepted academia as a meritocracy, were aware of little sex discrimination and belonged to no feminist group; (b) non-token women, who disagreed with academia as a meritocracy and were aware of sex discrimination; and (c) women with mixed or moderate orientations. (Membership in feminist groups was found in the latter two clusters.) Women in the three clusters did not differ significantly by academic rank or marital status and only marginally by age and longevity in academia. As predicted, however, they did differ by tenure status. Contrary to Laws' analysis, token women were not more likely to have had a sponsor, which was significantly related only to rank. Women in the three clusters were equally accurate in recognizing male-female status discrepancies. Their differing definitions of sex discrimination were revealed in differential bias when choosing among alternatives of indeterminate correctness. Token women minimized such discrepancies, in line with beliefs attributing them to women, rather than the system. Others maximized such discrepancies.