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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED133299 AUTHOR: Ansorge, Charles J.; And Others
TITLE: The Effects of Age, Tenure Status, Salary Status and
Degree Status on the Responses of College Level Physical
Educators to Questions Regarding the Merger Process.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 24 p.; Paper presented at the Central District
Convention of the American Alliance for Health, Physical
Education and Recreation (Denver, Colorado, March 20,
1976);
For related document, see SP 010 464
ABSTRACT: This investigation was designed to determine the
effects of age, salary, academic degree status, and tenure
status of college-level physical educators employed either
combined or separate departments on their response patterns
to various questions regarding the merger process. A
stratified sample of faculty employed in either separate
departments or combined departments was surveyed by means
of
questionnaire. The results of the analysis of the returned
questionnaires demonstrate that: (1) the age of the
respondents in combined departments influenced their
perception of areas of disagreement in their department; in
separate departments, age influenced their perception
regarding outside pressure to merge, their attitude towards
merging, and their perception regarding possible conflicts
in their department; (2) the salary of the respondents in
combined departments influenced their perception of the
need
to have an equal number of male and female faculty in a
combined department; in separate departments the salary
earned by the respondents influenced their choice of who
should serve as chairperson of a combined department; (3)
the academic degree status number of administrators of both
sexes in a combined department; and (4) the tenure status
of
respondents in combined departments influenced how they
characterized a merger, their perception of why a merger
occurred, and their satisfaction regarding the selection of
their chairperson. (Author/JMF)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Age-; Athletics-; Degrees-Academic;
Departments-; Individual-Characteristics; Questionnaires-;
Statistical-Analysis; Teacher-Salaries; Tenure-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *College-Faculty;
*Mergers-; *Physical-Education; *Teacher-Attitudes
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