The determinants of job satisfaction are estimated for Ph.D. level scientists in the United States across academic and nonacademic sectors. Female scientists report lower job satisfaction than males in academia but higher job satisfaction than males in the nonacademic sector. Academic scientists with tenure have substantially greater job satisfaction than non-academic scientists but academic sc...

Catherine Coker, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, and Stephen Bales are Assistant Professors at Texas A & M University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. edu. © Catherine Coker, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, and Stephen Bales Tenure status for library faculty in the academic environment is coming under increasing attack from administration, faculty members in ot...

Federal abrogation of the age-based mandatory retirement provisions in existing academic tenure contracts calls for a review of tenure and salary policies. Here two alternative explanations for the institution of tenure are examined. Then five alternative policy responses that might be adopted by university administrations are described and analyzed. The proposal favored by the author consists ...

The primary objective of this paper is to determine whether tenure in comparison to non-tenure faculty employment is efficient in producing the academic success of university students. A stochastic production frontier is estimated for university graduation rates while the inefficiency specification includes measures of tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure track faculty employment. Using panel ...

Tenure is an integral aspect of academia. Because tenured faculty give esteem to individual physical therapy programs and to the profession as a whole, understanding the process of attaining tenure is vital to all physical therapy educators. Tenure in universities is described, and the process of attaining tenure is outlined. Criteria for tenure, factors related to transfer of faculty between u...