Dental schools are facing substantial financial challenges and a shortage of faculty members. One solution to address these issues has been to hire "shared" faculty members, i.e., faculty members whose primary appointment is at one institution who are hired by another institution to teach a course or part of a course. This is a controversial concept. A survey of academic deans at U.S. and Canad...

* Deparment of Artificial-Insemination, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Dicle, TR-21280 Diyarbakır TURKEY ** Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Dicle, TR-21280 Diyarbakır TURKEY *** Department of Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Dicle, TR-21280 Diyarbakır TURKEY **** Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of ...

background: the present study was conducted to determine the inhibiting factors of research activities among the faculty members of islamic azad university.   methods: in the present cross-sectional study, conducted between 2009-2013, 300 faculty members of islamic azad university, science and research branch, tehran, were selected following stratified random sampling method. data collection in...

a most important phenomenon among organizational resources is creativity along with mobility of staff, while empowerment being the motivator of creativity and mobility. the purpose of this study was an analysis of management and organizational factors necessary for empowerment of iranian agricultural colleges faculty members. research methodology was a descriptive-survey one. the statistical po...

the main purpose of this descriptive – survey study was to investigate the factors affecting the professional skills of faculty members in iranian agricultural colleges. the statistical population of the study consisted of the faculty members of iranian agricultural colleges (n=1837), from whom 380 were determined as sample, applying morgan's sample table. the population size was later inc...

From radical positions it is argued that it will take paradigmatic transformations to develop a sustainable agriculture and that values and attitudes have to be changed. To find out if teachers and students in higher agricultural education are motivated for radical changes a survey based on the Alternative-Conventional Agriculture Paradigm Scale (ACAP-scale) was conducted. The ACAP-scale shows ...