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Published: 08 January 2015
...The impact of the recent financial crisis-as well as prior cyclical downturns-on faculty hiring and wages is not well understood. An important first step is to document the basic short term relationship between budget cuts, employment levels and wages among different types of colleges...
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Published: 24 January 2014
...Chapter 10 examines a number specific proposals designed to promote interdisciplinarity, including cross-disciplinary faculty appointments, “cluster hiring,” eliminating departments and disciplinary degrees, cross-disciplinary training of graduate students, and research grants targeted...
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Published: 02 April 2012
...This chapter describes the development of Herman Boerhaave's basic approach to medicine and chemistry by reviewing his education as a student at the University of Leiden and then his early program for curriculum reform as a lecturer on the Leiden medical faculty. Within the University of Leiden...
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Published: 02 April 2012
... structure for his courses. Boerhaave's reworking of didactic chemistry to fit the norms of the Leiden medical faculty fundamentally changed the status of chemistry at the University of Leiden, and its pedagogical structure, theoretical framework, and place in the medical curriculum. He organized the rest...
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Published: 22 December 2017
... in 1723. Francke’s Waisenhaumedizin fused with the medical theory of Stahl to set the frame for the Halle medical faculty. This ended with the restoration of Wolff by Frederick II in 1740, whereupon much of the intellectual energy of the university was siphoned off to the Berlin Academy. This chapter...
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Published: 12 December 2014
... with Avicenna’s internal senses model of faculty psychology. In addition, Alhacen’s use of ray-geometry to account for reflection and refraction, although still based on Ptolemy, was considerably more sophisticated and rigorous. Altogether, then, Alhacen’s theory of vision marks the perfection of ancient optics...
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Published: 27 November 2017
...This chapter explores how faculty stress can impede career success and the characteristics and mindsets essential to faculty vitality and professional growth. The chapter introduces Agile project management principles and the Scrum framework. Agile and Scrum evolved out of software development...
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Published: 17 May 2017
... of authoritative legal documents in the name of fidelity to the words used, it risks undermining the goal of determining the communicative intent of the author. Cardozo Benjamin language faculty legal meaning Schauer Frederick ambiguity Chomsky Noam communicative intent generative linguistics Jackendoff...
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Published: 22 October 2020
..., which amounts to a critique of the logic of identity but one that is not grounded solely on difference. The tendency to liken is an expression of what Walter Benjamin calls the "mimetic faculty" and undermines the surface/depth dichotomy that is elsewhere omnipresent. The complication of a surface/depth...
Book
Published online: 17 September 2015
Published in print: 08 January 2015
...) whether universities respond to reduced income by cutting costs (for instance, by reducing their number of faculty) or by raising tuition. Like a few previous NBER volumes-but unlike the vast majority of other work by economists-the studies analyze the economics of higher education from the institutions...
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Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger
Published: 25 November 2022
... disciplines arose during this period. And it was, of course, at this faculty that a Vienna (or Austrian) school of economics originated. Perhaps the most sinister force working to undermine the university's progress was the increasing entanglement of academia with the political battles of the period...
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Published: 22 December 2017
... created new resources for natural inquiry. Herman Boerhaave proved crucial in bringing these impulses together in the Leiden medical school. In Germany, developments in life science concentrated within the medical faculties of the universities and a few research-oriented Academies of Science. The tension...
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Published: 01 October 2009
...The culture of colleges and universities perpetuates enduring and important academic values. The culture also meets the needs of individual faculty members. But the culture increasingly fails to meet the economic needs of the institutions. Universities and colleges today face unprecedented problems...
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Published: 01 October 2009
...There is a traditional belief among the professoriate that faculty governance is an indispensable component of academic freedom and institutional quality in higher education. According to this belief, all members of academic communities, but especially the faculty, share the responsibility...
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Published: 22 November 2019
...Deploying faculty efficiently should surely be part of any optimizing strategy of a college or university. The “theory of the firm” shows how a university would achieve productive efficiency given different faculty salary rates across disciplines and variation in compensation within departments...
Book
Published online: 24 May 2018
Published in print: 27 November 2017
...Agile Faculty is a faculty development book that introduces strategies to help faculty improve their goal-setting, productivity, vitality, and career satisfaction. To do so, the book adapts the Scrum project management framework popular in software development. Scrum is a framework for dividing...
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Published: 23 September 2015
... of the University’s history, severe budgetary pressures, and major problems with the Hyde Park neighbourhood. He initiated important solutions to all three dilemmas, and his supporters insisted that he had quite literally “saved” the University. Edward Levi, sought to rebuild the faculty luster and intellectual...
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Published: 24 March 2014
...The chapter investigates wide-spread support for colonial medicine and the colonial sciences in Marseille by focusing several institutions including the municipal school of medicine which became a full Faculty of Medicine in 1930. Other institutions examined include the Colonial Institute...
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Published: 24 March 2014
...The chapter treats the organization of civilian colonial medical instruction at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. A central figure in this, the parasitologist, anthropologist, and physician-naturalist Raphaël Blanchard, exploited changes in the regulatory regimes of naval, colonial and civilian...
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Published: 10 January 2023
... within nursing schools in which the faculty who engaged in academic practice were often ineligible for tenure, while the research and non-clinical teaching faculty were eligible for tenure. The model also proved limited in facilitating interprofessional collaboration – a often-articulated but rarely...