FACTORS THAT AFFECT ACADEMIC TENURE IN SCHOOLS OF NURSING.
Contributors: University of Pittsburgh.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Education, Administration.; Education, Higher.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this research study was to examine salient factors involved in tenure decisions in schools of nursing. One hundred and thirty-four, or 96.4%, out of a possible 139 deans of nursing schools offering both baccalaureate and masters degrees, accredited by National League for Nursing, responded to provide a profile of tenure practices. Only 132 schools were included in the data analysis since two programs did not offer tenure.

The study revealed that in the institutions surveyed, a smaller proportion of nursing faculty was tenured than was true of the whole university faculty. From among 26 different academic activities, deans selected the academic activities related to teaching performance as more important than research and service activities in tenure decisions. When the deans were asked to rank order the three global areas of teaching, research, and service, most deans ranked teaching as most important, research second most important, and service least important in tenure decisions. However, deans from schools with doctoral programs ranked research more important than teaching, but still ranked service least important in tenure decisions.

Deans of nursing also examined the performance of faculty who were reviewed for tenure in the past three years. In the chi square analysis, faculty who were viewed by deans as providing a high standard of teaching, research, and service were, in fact, more likely to have been awarded tenure. The indices of research indicated that faculty documenting funded research, funded projects, publications in referred journals and books, were more likely to attain tenure than those who could not provide such documentation.

In the discriminant analysis, quality of teaching, quality of research and quality of service, in rank order of predictive power were found to be predictors for attainment of tenure. The deans' perception of faculty performance focused primarily on quality of teaching, research, and service, with teaching being the most important.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-07, Section: A, page: 1650.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 1988.

School code: 0178.