, making it one of the largest industries in the world ( Belzer, 2013 ). With the sport industry constantly surging as a lucrative global enterprise, opportunities for sport professionals have become seemingly innumerable, justifying the importance of a growing sport management faculty presence in higher
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amount of research on sport pedagogy doctoral students ( Casey & Fletcher, 2012 ; Dodds, 2005 ; Lee & Curtner-Smith, 2011 ; Napper-Owen, 2012 ). Again, the objective of such research has been to explain why prospective sport pedagogy faculty possess certain perspectives and beliefs and engage in
Duane Knudson
The evaluation of candidates for faculty appointments, tenure and promotion, grants, and scholarship awards is based on review from peers in their discipline. This expert judgment has been the principal mechanism or gold standard of evaluating research for over 100 years ( Belter, 2015 ; Bornmann
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, pharmacy, dentistry, and medicine. Although this growth has benefitted the profession in many ways, it has also created a need for more faculty members and improved facilities ( Thomas, 2014 ). At many institutions, the teaching resources in kinesiology programs have not kept pace with increases in
Amy Baker, Mary A. Hums, Yoseph Mamo and Damon P.S. Andrew
through the ranks. In the United States and Canada, faculty members begin their nontenure-track (e.g., lecturer, instructor, and clinical professor) or tenure-track academic careers as assistant professors. The academic career ladder then proceeds up through the associate, and ultimately, full professor
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States Department of Labor, 2010 ). This is true for women in higher education as well as women hold nearly half (48%) of tenure-track faculty positions ( Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, 2013 ). One area of higher education that has continued to be male-dominated is sport management
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doctoral program, in general, is to assist faculty in creating knowledge and to introduce and develop skills in “a student to become a scholar, that is, to discover, integrate, and apply knowledge, as well as to communicate and disseminate it” ( Gardner, 2009 , p. 29). Further, the special recognition of
Karen E. Danylchuk
The prevalence of occupational Stressors in physical education faculties/ departments as a function of sex, age, marital status, family status, years of work experience in higher education, and type of appointment was examined through use of the Stress Diagnostic Survey (Ivancevich & Matteson, 1988a). This multidimensional self-report inventory consists of 17 dimensions, which are further subdivided into organizational Stressors (macrostressors) and individual Stressors (microstressors). The sample reported moderate degrees of stress in comparison to the normative data with the macrostressors being greater sources of stress than the microstressors. Quantitative overload was rated the highest followed by time pressure and rewards. Qualitative overload was rated lowest followed by role ambiguity and role conflict. Sex was associated with the greatest number of Stressors—gender discrimination, quantitative overload, and time pressure. Females perceived these three Stressors to be significantly greater sources of stress than did males.
Donna J. Kuga
This study examined faculty perceptions of (a) the impact of intercollegiate athletics on institutional goals and educational experiences, (b) the role and influence of faculty regarding athletics, and (c) the factors influencing their willingness (or unwillingness) to participate in the governance of intercollegiate athletics. The study also investigated differences in faculty reactions among subgroups defined by gender, faculty status, and previous athletic participation. A sample of 240 faculty from a Big Ten Conference university responded to a mailed questionnaire. Factor analyses yielded 2 factors in impact of intercollegiate athletics, 2 factors in role and influence, 3 factors in reasons for faculty involvement, and 6 factors in reasons for lack of faculty involvement. MANOVA results indicated that those who had participated in athletics perceived greater Educational Contribution of athletics and less Value Conflicts between athletics and academics than those who had not participated in athletics.
Chan Woong Park and Matthew D. Curtner-Smith
During the 2013–2014 academic year, there were 134,014 faculty members (FMs), who were citizens of countries other than the United States, working at American universities ( Institute of International Education, 2016 ). Moreover, at approximately the same point in time, FMs with foreign citizenship
