A Loyalty Tax? National Measures of Academic Salary Compression

This paper presents measures of faculty salary compression for 1993 and 1999 based on national, rather than institutional-level, data. Using a recently developed technique and two national faculty surveys, actual junior to senior salary ratios are derived as well as predicted salary ratios that represent what the salary ratios would be if junior and senior faculty were similarly compensated for their productive traits. The analysis, which considers three alternative definitions of junior faculty and stratifies results by institutional type, produces an overall finding of no salary compression. A limited number of disciplines, including business and economics, however, do exhibit signs of salary compression.     

高水平大学学科队伍建设的思考

重视和加强高等学校的师资队伍建设具有极为重要的现实意义,队伍建设也是学科建设的关键。但在我国目前高等教育学科建设的过程中,学科队伍建设还存在着一些不容忽视的问题。本文阐述了学科队伍建设的重要性,分析了当前高校学科队伍建设中存在的一些问题和不稳定因素,并讨论了加强学科队伍建设的对策措施。     

Institution initiatives and support related to faculty development of open educational resources and alternative textbooks

ABSTRACT

Evidence exists that American institutions of higher education are well-entrenched in the consideration of mechanisms for supporting the implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) and alternative textbooks. Literature reveals that developing and implementing OER is a significant undertaking in terms of time and human resources. This study deploys content analysis of a sample of United States regionally based higher education institutional websites to determine the current state of institutional support mechanisms to implementers just embarking on the OER journey. Findings reveal that institutions have made strides in the development of faculty mini-grants and stipends with guidelines, proposal checklists, and weighting mechanisms to inform decision making. However, due to widespread language across the stratified sample emphasising award pool and individual limits, it is clear that OER funding is still seeking wider support as a permanent funded resource. Sponsorship of institutional OER initiatives seems split between institutional library functions and teaching and learning centres. Other issues, such as ownership and licensing, are significantly underdeveloped in field implementation or fall in a large continuum of practices. Recommendations of shared responsibility and use of data driven initiatives are provided that may improve institutional support of faculty OER adoption, adaption and creation.     

基于顾客满意度测评的服务企业优劣势分析

从测定顾客满意出发，利用模糊关系方程，建立了一种测定影响服务企业顾客满意度因素重要性的模型，通过此模型服务企业可以了解顾客对服务产品特性的看法，结合对各项指标的满意度找到本企业的优势和劣势。     

论大学教师聘任制改革中的科学管理

以聘任制为核心的高校人事制度改革对学校管理提出了新的要求,只有实行科学管理,才能逐步建立促进学术职业和高校共同发展的新的人事管理制度。在聘任制改革中,加强共享决策与参与管理,协调学术权力与行政权力,完善相关的规章制度,同时,进一步完善人事管理部门的职能,是改革实施成效的重要保障。     

Which notion of implication is the right one? From logical considerations to a didactic perspective

Implication is at the very heart of mathematical reasoning. As many authors have shown, pupils and students experience serious difficulties in using it in a suitable manner. In this paper, we support the thesis that these difficulties are closely related with the complexity of this notion. In order to study this complexity,we refer to Tarski's semantic truth theory,which contributes to clarifying the different aspects of implication: propositional connective, logically valid conditional, generalized conditional,inference rules. We will show that for this purpose, it is necessary to extend the classical definition of implication as a relation between propositions to a relation between open sentences with at least one free variable. This permits to become aware of the fact that, in some cases, the truth-value of a given mathematical statement is not constrained by the situation, contrary to the common standpoint that, in mathematics, a statement is either true or false. In the present paper, the didactic relevance of this theoretical stance will be illustrated by an analysis of two problematic situations and the presentation of some experimental results from our research on first-year university students' understanding of implication. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

高校教师思想状况调查分析

高校教师思想状况的主流积极健康向上，广大教师对中国共产党寄予希望，政治热情空前高涨，树立了社会主义的价值观和道德观，积极支持高等教育的改革和发展。同时，广大教师也对我国经济和社会发展中的难点问题表示忧虑。部分教师中还形成了一些值得注意的思想倾向。为此，必须加强教师的思想政治工作，加强师德建设，促进教师的全面发展。     

旅行社如何做好顾客的吸引与维系

随着人民生活水平的提高，旅游已经成为一种时尚，旅行社是顾客旅游生活的重要环节之一，它想要发展要竞争，就必须搞好促销，做好顾客的吸引与维系工作。旅行社基本上从游客心理、旅游价值、服务质量、服务方法、信息存储利用等方面进行工作，借以加强与顾客的联系。     

中国高校女教师队伍发展的现状分析

This paper examines the changing status of women faculty through an analysis of statistics on China’s universities from 1994 to 2004. This paper first presents the trend of a drastic increase in women faculty members in recent years. Further details on the academic ranks of women faculty, their age and highest degrees obtained are also presented. A comparison of female representation in faculty ranks is made between China and a few selected countries. Lastly, this paper attempts to account for the low percentage of female professors in higher education. Recommendations for the professional development for women faculty are made in the end.      

大学教师发展——“教学学术”的维度

大学教师发展(Faculty Development)有着丰富的内涵,教学工作是其中一个十分重要的方面。论文借鉴欧内斯特.博耶所提出的"教学学术"的相关理论,指出大学教师发展的核心在于"教学专业"的发展,而教学专业发展的关键则在于以重构学术内涵为切入点,牢固确立"教学学术"的观念;认真处理好"教学学术"与专业科研和社会服务之间的关系;自觉加强关于大学教学本身的科学研究。