PURPOSE To explore whether there is a relationship between resilience and academic productivity of minority faculty members in U.S. academic health centers. For the purposes of the study, the authors defined academic productivity as peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications, grants, and academic promotion. METHOD In 2007, the authors simultaneously collected quantitative and qualitativ...

This action research project addresses the issue of continuing competence from the viewpoint of allied health faculty members at a community college in Illinois. With input by and feedback from the faculty, the researcher describes how full-time allied health faculty members maintain their clinical competence, determines if efforts toward continuing competence are linked with academic responsib...

propose: the stratification of iranian knowledge and information science academic member in viewpoint of presence and effectiveness and scientific and professional performance are the main aims of this article. methodology: in this applied research, descriptive survey and webometrics methods were implemented. the research population included the iranian knowledge and information science academi...

Children in single-parent families, particularly children born to unmarried parents, are at high risk for experiencing material hardship. Previous research based on cross-sectional data suggests that father involvement, especially visitation, diminishes hardship. This article uses longitudinal data to examine the associations between nonresident fathers' involvement with their children and mate...

effective academic leadership is a complicated issue to investigate because of its intangibility and potential consequences. in addition, it plays an essential role in the success of institutions as well as being an important factor in improving quality performance of faculty members, administrators and qualified alumni. in this study mixed methods was used to develop a model of islamic azad un...

the present research work was carried out to assess the relationship between outreach services of a faculty member, and his academic tasks of teaching performance and research productivity. a number of 95 faculty members from the colleges of agriculture and natural resources constituted the statistical population of the study. a questionnaire was employed for collection of data on outreach serv...