background and purpose: shiraz university of medical sciences as one of the oldest and largest universities of medicine in iran with 50 years history has more than 450 faculty members and 5000 students. this study is an attempt to find out the level of job satisfaction among shiraz university of medical sciences’ faculty members. methods: in midterm of 2003-2004, data on job satisfaction level ...

The survey investigated and appraised the use of internet among academic staff members of Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji Arakeji, Osun State, Nigeria. Pre-tested structured questionnaires were administered to sixty randomly selected respondents; fifty six were appropriately filled and were used for analysis. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The study revealed a greater pe...

This study aims to determine the relationship between faculty members’ perceptions of their academic titles and job stress, variables affecting perceptions. Designed as a survey, quantitative method was used in study. The research sample consisted members working at ten public universities. data were collected via two scales named “Scale Academic Title Perception” Academics’ Job Stress”. obtain...

The primary objective of this work is to develop a social-academic network for the EURO Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), using as its defined population, the academic members of the group. Our motivation for carrying out this work comes from the importance and the need of analysing and representing the EWG-DSS various relationships that academically link its current 104 memb...

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...