This paper highlights research that explores the key factors that affect the attraction and retention of minority faculty in engineering and technology programs in rural communities, in particular southern rural communities. It is well known that the pool of minority applicants, specifically black applicants, for faculty positions in engineering and technology programs is very small. Furthermor...

background: social accountability in the schools of medicine is very important. it is an essence to recognize the methods and models used and implemented in the world in order to make use of the results and experiences. therefore, the purpose of the present study was to review some models of social accountability in the world. methods: the key words, including social accountability, faculty of ...

1 Department of Architecture, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan. 2 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (The National University of Malaysia), Malaysia. 3 Fundamental Engineering Unit, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (The National University of Malay...

introduction:job satisfaction plays a pivotal role in the performance of university facultymembers. identification of the factors influencing job satisfaction can beuseful in advancing the educational and research objectives of the university.the aim of the present study was to analyze the factors influencing jobsatisfaction among the faculty members of guilan university of medicalsciences. met...

In this paper we propose a methodological framework for modeling Quality of Experience (QoE) for media services in a generic manner. We consider QoE as a multi-dimensional concept dependent on several factors related to the service itself, its resource requirements, its users, and its context of use. As a first step, we group these factors into four factor spaces and propose a mapping of them i...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine satisfaction in patients undergoing orthodontic treatment in the orthodontics department of Babol Dental Faculty. Materials & Methods: Totally, 76 participants answered to a self-administrated questionnaire, categorized into 4 sections: "physician- patient relationship”, “social – mental improvement”, “admittance and environment-related fact...

in pakistan the growing number of higher education institutions and the ever-increasing number of students, forces the institutions to build such an environment which completely satisfies these students’ expectations. this paper uses a modified version of keaveney and young (1997) satisfaction model and tests on a sample of students of comsats abbottabad, pakistan. the study is based on primary...