Papers on University Life and the Faculty Reward System

Summarized by J. T. P. Yao

The purpose of these summaries is to encourage you to read the original papers, should you become interested in the topic. Each paper listed has much more information than can be summarized here.

• A Preliminary White Paper on Faculty Reward Systems in Research Universities, by J. M. Roesset and J. T. P. Yao,  December 2002, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3136
• The Decision Makers - Ethics for Engineers, by J. Armstrong, R. Dixon, and S. Robinson, 1999, Thomas Telford
• Homework? What Homework? by J. R. Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 6 December 2002
• The New Professional, by E. Holton, Peterson's Guides, Princeton, NJ, 1991
• Curbing Grade Inflation, by P. Wankat, and F. Oreovicz, ASEE Prism, October 2002, p. 38
• The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts & Tools, by R. Paul and L. Elder, The Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2002
• OpenCourseWare: A Case Study in Institutional Decision Making, by S. R. Lerman and S. Miyagawa, Academe, Bulletin of the AAUP, September-October 2002
• The Urgency of Engineering Education Reform, by W. A. Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering, Plenary Speaker of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference
• Motherhood and Apple Pie, by C. A. Twigg, The Learning MarketSpace, 1 July 2002
• Toward Success in College: Some Nonsense & Horsesense in a Step-by-Step Guide (That Really Works), by R. O'Connor and T. Taylor, Given by Wendy L. Keeney-Kennicutt, 1982
• A Makeover for Engineering Education, by W. A. Wulf and G. M. C. Fisher, Issues in Science and Technology, June 11, 2002
• Distance Education Draws in Working Engineers, by R. Davis, Engineering Times, NSPE, Vol. 24, No. 5, May 2002
• Design Principles: The Engineer's Contribution to Society, by James H. Armstrong, Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK
• Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds, by R. J. Light, Harvard University Press, 2001
• Powerful Partnerships: A Shared Responsibility for Learning, A Joint Report by the American Association for Higher Education, the American College Personnel Association, and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
• Time-Tested Survival Skills for a Publish or Perish Environment, by W. M. Reichert, T. Daniel-Race, and E. H. Dowell, Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, Vol. 91, No. 1, January 2002
• Integration of Engineering Education and Research: Perspectives from the NSF Civil and Mechanical Systems 1998 CAREER Workshop, by Niemeier, D., Boulanger, R. W., Bayly, P. V., Schmid, S. R., Muraleethraran, K. K., and Barros, A., Journal of Engineering Education, April 2001
• Making Defensible Tenure Decisions, by A. H. Franke, ACADEME, AAUP, November-December 2001
• Mentoring Engineering Students: Turning Pebbles into Diamonds, by P. A. Vesilind, Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE
• Are Computers Hurting Education? by H. Baruh, PRISM, ASEE, October 2001
• Open University, by N. Shute, prism, ASEE, November 2001
• The Future of the Faculty in the Digital Diploma Mill, by D. Noble, Academe, AAUP, September-October 2001
• Summary Notes on Engineers and Ivory Towers, by H. Cross, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1952
• Rankings We Could Live With, by G. Holder, PRISM, ASEE, September 2001
• Schools Erase Chalk-and-Talk, by D. B. Rosenbaum, ENR, 2 September 1996
• Mission Almost Impossible, by L. Creighton, PRISM, ASEE, September 2001
• Final Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Reconciling The Faculty Reward System with the Multiple Missions of Texas A&M University, Prepared by the Committee on 9/23/99, Revised by Faculty Senate on 12/13/99 & 1/24/01
• Teaching Excellence and the Inner Life of Faculty, by R. G. Kraft, CHANGE, May-June 2000
• In It Together: Faculties, Administrations, and Shared Governance; [1. "In It Together," by E. Schrecker, p. 2; 2. "Conditions of Collaboration: A Dean's List of Dos and Don'ts," by P. A. Glotzbach, pp. 16-21; 3. "Inextricably Linked: Shared Governance and Academic Freedom," by L. G. Gerber, pp. 22-24; 4. "Why Committees Don't Work: Creating a Structure for Change," by W. G. Tierney, pp. 25-29; 5. "Faculty Governance, The University of California, and the Future of Academe," by D. A. Hollinger, pp. 30-33; 6. "The Well-Tempered Search," by P. T. van der Vorm, pp. 34-36; 7. "Tough Choices at Radford University," by S. Bernard, and A. Ferren, pp. 37-42] Academe, AAUP, May-June 2001, pp. 2, 16-42.
• Teaching Awards Presented, ILLINOIS ALUMNI, Vol. 14, Issue 1, July/August 2001, p. 5
• Civil Engineering Practice in the Twenty-First Century: Knowledge and Skills for Design and Management, by N. S. Grigg, M. E. Criswell, D. G. Fontane, and T. J. Siller, ASCE Press, 2001
• The ASME Guide on FIRST and Universities, 8 pages, Presented by Dean Kamen, Main Plenary Speaker, 2001 ASEE Albuquerque Conference, 25 June 2001.
• The Preparing Future Faculty Program (PfF), by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS)
• Well Webucated?, by J. Naughton, The Guardian Weekly, Vol. 164, No. 19, 3-9 May 2001, p. 24
• Feeding the Squeeze, by A. P. Sanoff, prism, ASEE, May-June 2001, pp. 26-28
• Faculty Rewards - Information vs Knowledge, by Jim Yao
• A More Evenhanded Approach to Tenure, by P. Wankat and F. Oreovicz, prism, ASEE, April 2001, p. 37
• Reform from Within: Lesson for Academic Administrators, Faculty Work and Public Trust: Restoring the Value of Teaching and Public Service in American Academic Life by J.S. Fairweather (The Pennsylvania State University), Allyn & Bacon, 1996
• A CE News Roundtable - What employers want from new hires - and what they're getting, by C. Murphy and S. Fauerbach, P.E., CE News, March 2001, pp. 50-56
• Research versus Practice in Transportation Geotechnics: Can We Bridge the Chasm?, by D. J. Goodings and S. A. Ketcham, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, ASCE, Vol. 127, No. 1, January 2001, pp. 26-31.
• Does Size Matter?, by Carol A. Twigg, The Learning MarketSpace, Written monthly by Bob Heterick and Carol A. Twigg, Center for Academic Transformation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1 January 2001
• A Job Well Done?, by M. Mitchell, The Battalion (Student Newspaper at Texas A&M University), 24 January 2001, p. 9
• Adjusting the Balance, by L. A. Gerhardt, ASEE PRISM, October 1997, p. 12
• Tomorrow's Engineering Education, by Wallace Fowler, Prism, ASEE, January 2001, p. 38 
• Sons of Martha (Civil Engineering Readings in Modern Literature), Collected and Edited by A. J. Fredrich, ASCE, 1989
• The Civilized Engineer, by S. C. Florman, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1987
• Flunking the Test - the Dismal Record of Student Evaluations, by P. Trout, Academe, AAUP, July-August 2000, pp. 58-61
• Quality Assurance in Engineering Education: A Comparison of EC-2000 and ISO-9000, by S. Sarin, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 89, No. 4, October 2000
• Dynamics of Peer Education in Cooperative Learning Workgroups, by C. R. Haller, V. J. Gallagher, T. L. Weldon, and R. M. Felder, Journal of Engineering Education, 89(3), July 2000
• "That's Not Fair" - Understanding Students' Ideas of Classroom Fairness, The Teaching Professor, Vol. 14, No. 4, April 2000, p. 1 and p. 6. [Ref. Houston, M. B., and Bettencourt, L. A., "But that's not fair! An exploratory study of students' perceptions of instructor fairness," Journal of Marketing Education, 21 (2), August 1999, pp. 84-96.]
• The New Breed, by W. Cohen, [Regarding Contract Engineering Work] PRISM, ASEE, September 2000, pp. 34-37
• A Teaching Workshop for Engineering Faculty, by K. C. Womack, L. R. Anderson, M. W. Smith, and K. A. Gorder, Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, October 1994, pp. 371-375
• The Future of Engineering Education: Part 5. Assessing Teaching Effectiveness and Educational Scholarship, by R. M. Felder, A. Rugarcia, J. E. Stice, Chemical Engineering Education, 34(3)
• Futuristic Faculty Development, by S. A. Baiocco and J. N. DeWaters, ACADEME, September-October 1995
• The Future of Engineering Education: Part 6. Making Reform Happen, by R. M. Felder, J. E. Stice, A. Rugarcia, Chemical Engineering Education, 34(3), 2000
• Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education, by C. J. Sykes, Regency Gateway Publishing, Washington, D. C., 1988
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• Progress of the Engineering Education Coalitions, by H. R. Coward, C. P. Ailes, and R. Bardon, SRI International Report, May, 2000
• College Professoring, by O. P. Kolstoe, Southern Illinois University Press, Feffer & Simons, Inc., London and Amsterdam, 1975
• Summary Notes on "The Scholarship of Teaching, Chemical Engineering Education, by R. M. Felder, 34(2), 144 (2000).
• The Other Re-engineering of Engineering Education, 1900-1965, by B. E. Seely, Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, July 1999
• The Future of Engineering Education: Part 4. Learning How to Teach, by J. E. Stice, R. M. Felder, D. R. Woods, A. Rugarcia, Chemical Engineering Education, Spring 2000
• The Future of Engineering Education: Part 3. Developing Critical Skills, by D. R. Woods, R. M. Felder, A. Rugarcia, J. E. Stice, Chemical Engineering Education, Spring 2000
• The Future of Engineering Education: Part 2. Teaching Methods that Work, by R. M. Felder, D. R. Woods, J. E. Stice, and A. Rugarcia, Chemical Engineering Education, Winter 2000
• The True Scholar, by R. N. Bellah, ACADEME, Bulletin of AAUP, January-February 2000
• Education with a Bottom Line, by S. Budiansky, PRISM, October 1999
• The Future of Engineering Education: Part 1. A Vision for a New Century, by A. Rugarcia, R. M. Felder, D. R. Woods, J. E. Stice, Chemical Engineering Education, Winter 2000
• Taking Care of Business, by W. Cohen, PRISM, ASEE, January 2000
• Tenure & Academic Excellence, by L. L. Carroll, ACADEME, Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, May-June 2000
• Assessing Scholarship, by E. L. Boyer, ASEE PRISM, March 1995
• Freedom, Coercion, Authority, by R. N. Bellah, Academe, Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), January-February 1999
• The Changing Nature of Engineering, by R. P. Morgan, P. P. Reid, and W. A. Wulf, ASEE PRISM, May-June 1998
• Bringing Adjunct Engineering Faculty into the Learning Community, by J. P. Gosink, and R. A. Streveler, Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, January 2000
• Gone for Good, by Stuart Rojstaczer, Oxford University Press, 1999, 187 pages.
• Engineering a New Education, by S. G. Walesh, PE, Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE, March/April 2000
• What Will It Take to Reform Engineering Education? by John W. Prados, and Stanley I. Proctor, Chemical Engineering Progress, March 2000
• Teaching Portfolios
  1. "A Positive Appraisal", by Peter Seldin, Academe, January-February 2000
  2. "Another Perspective," by Candace W. Burns, Academe, January-February 2000
• Use of Systems Analysis in Water Management, by P. P.Rogers and M. B. Fiering, Water Resources Research, Vol. 22, No. 9, August 1986
• Point of View: Restoring Sanity to an Academic World Gone Mad, by James F. Carlin, Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 November 1999
• Quantifying Cost and Quality – The National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, by Ruth Flower, ACADEME, AAUP, July-August 1998
• Student Ratings of Teaching: The Research Revisited, by William E. Cashin, (Referred by Nancy Simpson), IDEA Paper No. 32, Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development, Kansas State University, September 1995
• Teaching versus Research – Incompatibility or Overemphasis? by Phillip S. Myers, Journal of Engineering Education, January 1993
• Integrating Teaching and Research, by Deborah Coppula, PRISM, ASEE, December 1979
• Schooling Vs Education and Other Balancing Acts, by Richard M. Felder, Hoechst Celanese Professor of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, ERM Division Plenary Lecture, 1999 Annual ASEE Meeting, Charlotte, NC, 23 June 1999
• On the Use of Numerically Scored Student Evaluations of Faculty by William Rundell, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, 1997
• Toward an Understanding of Our Current Predicaments, by Robert Zemsky and William F. Massy, Change, November/December 1995
• Serving on Promotion and Tenure Committees – A Faculty Guide, by Robert M. Diamond, Anker Publishing Company, Inc., 1994
• Reclaiming the Public Trust, by Derek Bok, Change, July/August 1992, pp. 13-19.
• The Myth of the Superhuman Professor, by Richard M. Felder, J. Engr. Education, 82(2), 105-110 (1994). Click here for complete paper.
• What Do They Know, Anyway? by Richard M. Felder, Chemical Engineering Education, 26(3) (summer 1992). Click here for complete paper.
• If You've Got It, Flaunt It: Uses and Abuses of Teaching Portfolios, by Richard M. Felder and Rebecca Brent, Chemical Engineering Education, 30(3) (Summer 1996). Click here for complete paper.
• The Scholarship Landscape in Civil Engineering: A Bridge Between Rhetoric and Reality, The 98 Draft Report, by The American Society of Civil Engineers Task Force on Redefining Scholarly Work (Amir W. Al-Khafaji, et al.), 24 April 1998
• J. P. Bean, "Alternative Models of Professional Roles: New Languages to Reimagine Faculty Work, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 69, No. 5, September/October 1998 (34 references cited in the paper)
• Reinventing Undergraduate Education, (A Blueprint for America’s Research Universities, Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University, Summary of Chapter IX (Changing Faculty Reward Systems)
• The Editor's Page, by Edward Ernst, Journal of Engineering Education, ASEE, October 1993.
• Measuring Up, by G. Gaither, B. P. Nedwek, and J. E. Neal, ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 5, 1994, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
• A Culture for Academic Excellence, by J. E. Freed, M. R. Klugman, and J. D. Fife, ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, Vol. 25, No. 1, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1997
• Restructuring the University Reward System, A Report by the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Forum, Sid W. Richardson Foundation, 309 Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas, 76102-4088, 1997
• The Civil Engineer, Scientist or Technician? Jose M. Roesset, and James T. P. Yao, Education and Continuing Development for the Civil Engineer, ASCE, Las Vegas, 17-20 April 1990
• Summary of Engineering Curriculum Changes at Old Dominion University (from "College answers challenge and re-engineers its curriculum, by Dr. William Swart, P.E., Dean of Engineering & Technology, Update, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA) – through Andrew Sauvage
• Forks in the Road, Richard Weingardt, Palamar Publishing, Denver, Colorado, 1998.
• Women Faculty Model - New Values for Research Universities, Women in Higher Education, January 1999
• Faulty Workload: Research, Theory, and Interpretation, H. E. Yuker, ASHE-ERIC Research Report 10, 1984, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
• The Urgency of Engineering Education Reform, Wm. A. Wulf, The Bent, Fall 1998
• Trends and Concerns in Civil Engineering Education, James T. P. Yao, and Jose M. Roesset, to be presented at the Second North American Civil Engineering Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 1-3 October 1998.
• The Value System of a University - Rethinking Scholarship, Draft Manuscript (Shared by Dr. Janis Stout), Conrad J. Weiser, Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331.
• Faculty Teaching Practices and Perceptions of Institutional Attitude Toward Teaching at Eight Engineering Schools, (Shared by Jan Rinehart), Manuscript by R. M. Felder, R. Brent, T. K. Miller, C. E. Brawner, and R. H. Allen
• Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Student Evaluation of Faculty: Galloping Polls In The 21^st Century, by Robert E. Haskell, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Editor: Gene V. Glass, Volume 5, Number 6, February 12, 1997

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