Research note: Some corrections and suggestions for working with the national faculty survey databases

Our ability to understand the faculty work environment has been greatly enhanced by the availability of largescale national surveys of the professoriate since the 1950s. This technical note identifies ways to improve data comparability among the national faculty surveys. It begins by identifying the national surveys and some of their attributes. The study then estimates faculty sizes and calculates weights for faculty in selected disciplines and institution types. The weights are designed specifically for four surveys conducted in 1969, 1975, 1980, and 1988.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43605/1/11162_2004_Article_BF00992623.pd

Faculty at work: Focus on teaching

Within the framework of cognitive motivation theory, selected personal and environmental motivational variables for faculty in English, chemistry, and psychology from community colleges, comprehensive colleges and universities, and research universities were regressed against faculty allocation of work effort given to teaching. The data came from a 1988 national survey. Gender ( sociodemographic ); quality of graduate school attended, career age, and rank ( career ); self-competence, self-efficacy, institutional commitment, personal interest in teaching, and percent time preferred to give to teaching ( self-valuations ); and institutional preference, consensus and support, and colleague commitment to teaching ( perception of the environment ) were entered into regressions. R 2 were generally strong (.86 for community college chemists) and significant. For all institutional types, self-valuation and perception of the environment motivators significantly accounted for the explained variance whereas sociodemographic and career variables did not.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43606/1/11162_2004_Article_BF00992182.pd

Faculty at work: Focus on research, scholarship, and service

Within the framework of cognitive motivation theory, selected personal and environmental motivational variables for faculty in eight liberal arts and science departments from community colleges, liberal arts colleges, comprehensive colleges and universities, and research universities were regressed against faculty allocation of work effort given to research, scholarship, and service. The data came from a 1988 national survey of faculty. Gender, (sociodemographic), quality of graduate school attended, career age , and rank (career); self-competence and self-efficacy regarding research, scholarship, and service and percent time prefer to give to research, scholarship, and service ( self-valuations ); and institutional preference, consensus and support , and colleague commitment to research, scholarship, and service ( perception of the environment ) were entered into regressions. R 2 s were generally strong (.64 for liberal arts-I institutions) and significant. For all institutional types, self-valuation ( self-competence and -efficacy ) motivators significantly accounted for the explained variance. Sociodemographic and career variables did not explain appreciable amounts of variance.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43607/1/11162_2004_Article_BF00992183.pd

Toxin-Based Models to Investigate Demyelination and Remyelination.

Clinical myelin diseases, and our best experimental approximations, are complex entities in which demyelination and remyelination proceed unpredictably and concurrently. These features can make it difficult to identify mechanistic details. Toxin-based models offer lesions with predictable spatiotemporal patterns and relatively discrete phases of damage and repair: a simpler system to study the relevant biology and how this can be manipulated. Here, we discuss the most widely used toxin-based models, with a focus on lysolecithin, ethidium bromide, and cuprizone. This includes an overview of their respective mechanisms, strengths, and limitations and step-by-step protocols for their use

Copper-mediated coupling reactions and their applications in natural products and designed biomolecules synthesis

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