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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED130721 AUTHOR: Schlesinger, Sue H., Ed.
TITLE: The Humanities in Two-Year Colleges: Faculty
Characteristics.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1976
NOTE: 71 p.
ABSTRACT: Contained in this document are the results of
nine
studies in which various aspects of two-year college
faculty
were investigated. Data used in the studies were obtained
from a 1975 nationwide study of 1,998 two-year college
faculty, of whom 1,493 were humanities instructors and 505
were non-humanities faculty members. The areas investigated
include: (1) characteristics of the well-functioning
faculty
member; (2) characteristics of outstanding instructors; (3)
identification of interdisciplinary instructors; (4) part
time humanities instructors; (5) faculty attitudes toward
affirmative action; (6) a comparison of fine arts
instructors and social scientists; (7) dominant faculty
values; (8) faculty preferences for self-actualization
versus salary; and (9) job satisfaction and working
conditions. The investigators were: Victor Cruz-Cardona,
Andrew Hill, Don Karvelis, Rose-Lise Obetz, Sue H.
Schlesinger, Eleanor Hammer, Josephine M. Fay, Len O'Hara,
and Jack Friedlander. (JDS)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Community-Colleges;
Job
Satisfaction; Part-Time-Faculty; Self-Actualization;
Teacher
Effectiveness; Teaching-Conditions; Values-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Faculty; *Humanities-; *Teacher
Attitudes; *Teacher-Characteristics; *Two-Year-Colleges
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