Universities - Manpower
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The benefits of a leadership program and executive coaching for new nursing academic administrators: one college's experience.

29 Jun 2009 Despite attention given to the nursing shortage and now the nursing faculty shortage, what is perhaps less visible but equally critical are the pending retirements of most of the current cadre of academic nursing administrators in the next decade. ... Read more...

Developing and testing a student-focussed teaching evaluation survey for university instructors.

30 May 2009 This paper describes a process for developing a student-focussed survey to gather teaching- and learning-related feedback from university students and examines the psychometric properties of a short survey for confidential feedback to lecturers in ... Read more...

Retention of junior faculty in academic medicine at the University of California, San Diego.

30 Dec 2008 PURPOSE: To measure overall retention of junior faculty and evaluate the effects of a junior faculty development program on the retention of junior faculty at one institution. METHOD: Quantitative survival analysis techniques were used to ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Universities - Manpower'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Choon Fong Shih. Interviewed by Daniel Cressey. 15 Sep 2009
• The benefits of a leadership program and executive coaching for new nursing academic administrators: one college's experience. 29 Jun 2009
• Ten simple rules for choosing between industry and academia. 24 Jun 2009
• U.S. higher education. Report finds no gender bias in faculty hiring, resources. 3 Jun 2009
• Developing and testing a student-focussed teaching evaluation survey for university instructors. 30 May 2009
• Harvard's women four years later. 30 May 2009
• Personnel dilemma. 17 Mar 2009
• Revolving doors: from academia to industry and back again. 27 Feb 2009
• A crisis of confidence. 3 Feb 2009
• Show us the money. 27 Jan 2009
• Retention of junior faculty in academic medicine at the University of California, San Diego. 30 Dec 2008
• Culture clash in China. 2 Dec 2008
• Hurricane Katrina and the Louisiana State University-New Orleans Department of Medicine: rebuilding, recruiting, and renewing. 30 Jul 2008
• Gender bias remains prevalent in the biological sciences. 29 Jul 2008
• Fewer academics could be the answer to insufficient grants. 17 Jun 2008
• A new relationship. 10 Jun 2008
• Beyond rocket science. 3 Jun 2008
• A diary study to open up the black box of overtime work among university faculty members. 30 May 2008
• Business: stepping out. 11 Mar 2008
• Key health promotion factors among male members of staff at a higher educational institution: a cross-sectional postal survey. 10 Feb 2008

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Technical information about 'Universities'

Definition: Educational institutions providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees.

Descriptor UI: D014495

Alternative terms: Universities; University;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I02.783.850;

Technical Notes: IM; Manual 30.8, 36.18; specify locale if pertinent; colleges as educ institutions go here: do not confuse with bodies such as "College of Physicians" which are indexed under SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), under US Dept of Defense, goes under SCHOOLS, MEDICAL + UNITED STATES; DF: UNIV