Doctor of Philosophy

dissertationResearch has continued to suggest high institutional costs of not accommodating work-life balance, and institutions of higher education are recognizing the importance of formally addressing these issues in the increasingly competitive labor market. However, there is concern whether faculty members 1) are actually aware of policies; 2) feel safe in using work-life policies, particularly if they perceive them to be contested 3) and actually use policies. The research surrounding flexible tenure policies has also indicated that policies that lack the support of administration and academic colleagues have the propensity to serve as catalysts for hostile or overt bias for faculty who opted to utilize these policies. This study aims to spotlight how the discursive framing of childbearing and caregiving within the ideologies of tenure may disrupt or sustain the status quo of the committed, productive, present, and collegial ideal tenure track faculty member. The results are framed within a critical feminist policy discourse analytical framework with particular attention paid to the social, historical, and political contexts of the academy, including assumptions about the ideal worker norms of the tenured professoriate within research institutions. The method for data collection and data analysis was situated within a critical feminist policy discourse framework. The historic structure of the tenure track has been positioned as inconducive to balance and life integration, particularly for women. The policy and individual level iv discourse constructed caregiving in a way that may prove problematic for both male and female faculty parents, and even more problematic for the (re)production of the ideal tenure faculty cultural model. Nonbirth mothers and fathers who serve as primary caregivers must document and attest to their role in order to be eligible for the benefit. Consequently, the framing of the policy problem against the rhetoric of women in the academy results in institutional policy solutions and practices that focused on one category of faculty (read: women)

A Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies

One of the first collections to focus on independent writing programs, A Field of Dreams offers a complex picture of the experience of the stand-alone. Included here are narratives of individual programs from a wide range of institutions, exploring such issues as what institutional issues led to their independence, how independence solved or created administrative problems, how it changed the culture of the writing program and faculty sense of purpose, success, or failure.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1134/thumbnail.jp

Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States

Brings together four reports commissioned between 1982 and 2000 that examine the history of African American Studies, its impact, and its institutionalization. Reviews Ford's grantmaking to African American Studies programs from 1982 to 2007

June 24, 2005, Ohio University Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes document the activities of Ohio University\u27s Board of Trustees

Towards a Global Core Value System in Doctoral Education

Recent decades have seen an explosion in doctoral education worldwide. Increased potential for diverse employment has generated greater interest, with cultural, political and environmental tensions focusing the attention of new creative, responsible scholars. Towards a Global Core Value System in Doctoral Education provides an evaluation of changes and reforms in doctoral education since 2000. Recognising the diversity of academic cultures and institutional systems worldwide, the book advocates for a core value system to overcome inequalities in access to doctoral education and the provision of knowledge. Building on in-depth perspectives of scholars and young researchers from more than 25 countries, the chapters focus on the structures and quality assurance models of doctoral education, supervision, and funding from an institutional and comparative perspective. The book examines capacity building in the era of globalisation, global labour market developments for doctoral graduates, and explores the ethical challenges and political contestations that may manifest in the process of pursuing a PhD. Experts and early career researchers in the Global North and South collaborated in interdisciplinary and intergenerational teams to develop guidelines for doctoral education. They learned from each other about how to act courageously within a complex global context. The resulting recommendations and reflections are an invitation to reflect on the frames and conditions of doctoral education today

Towards a Global Core Value System in Doctoral Education

Recent decades have seen an explosion in doctoral education worldwide. Increased potential for diverse employment has generated greater interest, with cultural, political and environmental tensions focusing the attention of new creative, responsible scholars. Towards a Global Core Value System in Doctoral Education provides an evaluation of changes and reforms in doctoral education since 2000. Recognising the diversity of academic cultures and institutional systems worldwide, the book advocates for a core value system to overcome inequalities in access to doctoral education and the provision of knowledge. Building on in-depth perspectives of scholars and young researchers from more than 25 countries, the chapters focus on the structures and quality assurance models of doctoral education, supervision, and funding from an institutional and comparative perspective. The book examines capacity building in the era of globalisation, global labour market developments for doctoral graduates, and explores the ethical challenges and political contestations that may manifest in the process of pursuing a PhD. Experts and early career researchers in the Global North and South collaborated in interdisciplinary and intergenerational teams to develop guidelines for doctoral education. They learned from each other about how to act courageously within a complex global context. The resulting recommendations and reflections are an invitation to reflect on the frames and conditions of doctoral education today

The Emergence of the American Engaged University Paradigm

Ein zentrales Problem dieser Studie bestand darin, zu verstehen, was Universitäten veranlasst, sich an der Umgestaltung von Gemeinschaften und sich selbst zu beteiligen, wenn sie die traditionellen Missionen der Bildung neu gestalten. Durch eine bewusste Auswahl wurden drei Universitäten ausgewählt, um Daten zu sammeln und die Forschungsfragen zu beantworten. Die Daten wurden aus öffentlich zugänglichen Online-Berichten abgerufen, die jede Institution auf ihren eigenen Webseiten veröffentlichte. Über tausend Seiten der drei Institutionen wurden mithilfe einer Diskursanalyse (DA) analysiert. Die Dokumente stellten die offizielle Bestätigung des aufkommenden Trends dar. Die Analyse der institutionellen Diskurse zeigte Muster auf, die relevant waren, um die Institutionalisierung des Engagements an den drei Universitäten zu erklären. Sie folgten einem konsequenten Weg der internen Überarbeitung dessen, was sie taten, als tiefes Hinterfragen früherer institutionalisierter Praktiken und Diskurse, die sie zu Veränderungen führten. Dann erfolgte die Institutionalisierung von Diskursen in Form von Zentren für Zivildienst, strategische Planung, Service-Lernen, bürgerliches Leben, neue Klassen, herausfordernde Vorträge, um das Engagement zu fördern. Die Studie war in der Lage, einige der grundlegenden Mechanismen der sozialen Sprache zu identifizieren, die verwendet werden, um Institutionen innerhalb von Institutionen zu schaffen, wie z. B. das Engagement in der Gemeinschaft. Die Forschung lieferte Daten zur Unterstützung der theoretischen Annahme, dass Sprache durch eine Vielzahl möglicher Textkonfigurationen Diskurse erzeugt, die gleichzeitig soziale Handlungen wie Institutionalisierung hervorrufen. Diese Prozesse offenbarten, wie Engagement generiert wurde.A central problem to this study was to understand what prompts universities to participate in transforming communities and themselves as they reshape the traditional missions of education. Using a purposely selection, three universities were chosen to collect data and answer the research questions. The data was retrieved from public available online reports that each institution posted on their own webpages. Over a thousand pages from the three institutions were analyzed, using a Discourse Analysis (DA). The documents represented the official endorsement to the emerging trend. The analysis of institutional discourses presented patterns that were relevant to explain the institutionalization of engagement in the three universities. They followed a consistent path of internal revisions of what they were doing, as deep questioning of previous institutionalized practices, and discourses, that led them to changes. Then, the institutionalization of discourses occurred in the forms of centers for community service, strategic planning, service-learning, civic life, new classes, challenging lectures, among others, to promote engagement. The study was able to identify some of the basic mechanisms social language used to create institutions, within institutions, like community engagement. The research provided data to support the theoretical assumption that language, through a host of possible configurations of texts generates discourses that, at the same time, engender social actions such as institutionalization. Those processes disclosed how engagement was generated

Towards a Global Core Value System in Doctoral Education

Recent decades have seen an explosion in doctoral education worldwide. Increased potential for diverse employment has generated greater interest, with cultural, political and environmental tensions focusing the attention of new creative, responsible scholars. Towards a Global Core Value System in Doctoral Education provides an evaluation of changes and reforms in doctoral education since 2000. Recognising the diversity of academic cultures and institutional systems worldwide, the book advocates for a core value system to overcome inequalities in access to doctoral education and the provision of knowledge. Building on in-depth perspectives of scholars and young researchers from more than 25 countries, the chapters focus on the structures and quality assurance models of doctoral education, supervision, and funding from an institutional and comparative perspective. The book examines capacity building in the era of globalisation, global labour market developments for doctoral graduates, and explores the ethical challenges and political contestations that may manifest in the process of pursuing a PhD. Experts and early career researchers in the Global North and South collaborated in interdisciplinary and intergenerational teams to develop guidelines for doctoral education. They learned from each other about how to act courageously within a complex global context. The resulting recommendations and reflections are an invitation to reflect on the frames and conditions of doctoral education today

A history of the Psychology Schools at Adelaide's universities

This book commemorates the history of the psychology schools in Adelaide’s three Universities: The University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of South Australia. Its publication in 2016 coincides with their 60th, 50th and 25th birthdays respectively. Their core activities comprise undergraduate teaching, postgraduate research training, research and postgraduate professional training. Commemorative activities, including this book, provide a link between our present day and the past, and help to explain the evolution of our institutions. They provide an opportunity to reflect on the achievements of each of our academic institutions, and of the individuals within them. Psychology at Adelaide’s Universities has occupied a distinctive position within the state, and the documentation of its unique history is an important step in its official chronicle.Edited by Tony Winefield and Ted Nettelbec