Department Chair Advice on Teaching and Research a

Authors: Gabel Taggart

Publish Date: 2015/05/22

Volume: 40, Issue: 5, Pages: 443-454

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Abstract

Using data from a 2010 survey of academic chairs this study reports on academic department chairs recommended time allocations to new assistant professors I contend that personal values about research and teaching influence the department chairs recommendations along with organizational characteristics Multilevel modeling indicates that department chairs own academic time allocations promotion history and desire for quality teaching as well as organizational characteristics such as research facilities average teaching load and research ranking influence the department chairs advice These results suggest that organizational characteristics do not dominate official individual actions within the university setting as bureaucratic and neoinstitutional theories might predictThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No 0710836 to Monica Gaughan University of Georgia Principal Investigator I would like to thank Monica Gaughan for granting access to these data as well as for giving initial advice Barry Bozeman provided feedback and guidance throughout Spiro Maroulis Tom Catlaw Azfar Nisar and Linda Williams were very helpful with feedback

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