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The increasing presence of international faculty members is validated using multiple data sources, and their professional experience is examined in terms of the perception of academic life, productivity, and career mobility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the experiences of non-tenure-track faculty in colleges and universities in the U.S. It mentions that part-time teachers are regarded with low pay, no job security, heavy workloads, and low status. A variety of studies are identifying on working conditions, roles, and experiences of part-time teachers intention to be better on campus that have unions and collective bargaining. Campus with collective bargain tend to process the role definition, recruitment and hiring among teachers. The author points out that discipline and motivation is shaping the experience wherein faculty in liberal arts or math has negative departmental cultures rather than law or education fields.

The authors argue for integrating Boyer's four domains through the pursuit of public scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This chapter examines the construct scholarship of teaching and learning using a Parsonian four-function paradigm that serves as an analytical structure for organizing and examining some of the key issues in the emerging literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The credit hour is the common metric for measuring faculty instructional workload and is a part of a larger system that makes innovation more difficult. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the internal service that higher education faculty performs for their institutions in the U.S. Description of faculty's service to the department, discipline and students; Influence of institutional type, discipline, rank and experience and the demographic variables of gender and race on internal service role of the faculty.

Presents methods of collecting workload data of college teachers. Measurement of faculty course loads; Analysis of workloads at the institutional research office of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU); Course load studies at other schools; Survey of Virginia's college and university faculties on professional time; Implications of surveys; Application of faculty data base.

Discusses a case study by Kent State University in Ohio on the benefits of workload initiatives and productivity expectations. Link between faculty workload and productivity; Implications of the Kent Institutional Characteristics and Strategic Plan of 1992; Use of faculty productivity worksheet; Description of weekly faculty logs; Effects of flexible workloads.