scholarly journals An Accounting Program Merit Pay Survey

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
David H. Lindsay ◽  
Annhenrie Campbell ◽  
Kim B. Tan ◽  
Andrew Wagner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Merit Pay ◽  
The United States ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Accredited Schools ◽  
Merit System

Basing the compensation of accounting professors on merit pay in order to encourage better teaching, research and service is controversial. Before the effectiveness of merit-based salary plans can be examined empirically, it must be determined which accounting programs use such a system. In this study, the 852 accounting programs in the United States were surveyed to identify the methods in use to adjust the salaries of individual professors. Initial findings indicate that schools using a merit system usually do not also offer time in grade increases and that doctoral granting schools and AACSB accredited schools are more likely to use a merit system.  

Higher Officials in the Philippine Civil Service

1933 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-221
Author(s):  
Ralston Hayden
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Interview ◽  
Legislative Power ◽  
Government Data ◽  
Commission President ◽  
Philippine Government ◽  
Merit System

In his instructions to the second Philippine Commission, President McKinley designated “the establishment of a system to secure an efficient civil service” as one of the first tasks that this body should undertake upon its assumption of legislative power in September, 1900. Pursuant to the direction of the president, one of the earliest statutes enacted by the Commission—the fifth—was a civil service law. Many other statements and actions reveal that virtually all of the Americans who were primarily responsible for the establishment of modernized political institutions in the Philippine Islands recognized that a civil service based upon the merit system and divorced from politics was essential to the success of the program of the United States in its great Oriental dependency. Today the character of the Philippine civil service is one of the criteria by which the results of that program may be judged.As part of a study of this institution, the writer has made inquiry into the antecedents, the education, and the careers of the higher administrative officials of the Philippine government. Data were secured from the service records of 56 of the under-secretaries, bureau chiefs, and assistant chiefs, and in almost every instance was supplemented by a personal interview.

Robert Bruce Sloane and the mid-twentieth-century struggles of academic psychiatry

2020 ◽  
pp. 096777201989613
Author(s):  
Jacalyn Duffin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Academic Psychiatry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Department ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Oral Testimony

In 1957, British-born R Bruce Sloane became the founding head of a Canadian academic department of psychiatry in a city that had already been served by a busy asylum for more than a century. He plunged into the work with enthusiasm, but encountered blatant opposition and skepticism, prompting his departure. He went on to conduct research in the United States. Archives and oral testimony reveal the attitudes thwarting Sloane’s plans to improve teaching, research, and service—attitudes that may typify a general hostility toward psychiatry in other centers at that time.

Correction and Social Work

1963 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Charles S. Prigmore
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
Curriculum Policy ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Accredited Schools ◽  
Work Education ◽  
Schools Of Social Work

Every decade since the 1930's, the Council on Social Work Education has issued a curriculum policy statement as a guide and framework for the curriculum development of accredited schools of social work in the United States and Canada. The fourth such statement, issued in 1962, sets forth a number of new directions for the curriculum which emphasize social func tioning, prevention, control, and the methods of group and community organization. It distinguishes between social work as a profession and social welfare as a field.

Public Policy in Constitutional Reform

1945 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis G. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Primary Elections ◽  
Corrupt Practice ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
Direct Government ◽  
Merit System ◽  
Direct Primary

Not Many years ago most political scientists accepted the proposition that it is the spirit and tradition of a political system rather than its structure that informs and governs its operation. We may regard such a proposition as a truism; yet its acceptance came in the wake of what might be called the “second era” of democratic reform in the United States. That era had seen the destruction of the old system of making nominations and the rise of party regulation, the adoption of direct primary elections, and of other devices for direct government, such as the initiative, referendum and recall. It had seen, likewise, the enactment of corrupt practice acts, the growth of the merit system in the choice of civil service personnel, the turn to the popular election of United States senators, attempts at administrative reorganization and other devices for increasing the voter's control over his government.

scholarly journals What Does It Mean to Be a Clinical Track Faculty Member in Public Health? A Survey of Clinical Track Faculty Across the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 003335492110487
Author(s):  
Ella August ◽  
Laura Power ◽  
Emily J. Youatt ◽  
Olivia S. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Academic Rank ◽  
Clinical Faculty ◽  
Schools Of Public Health ◽  
Promotion Policies ◽  
Institutional Expectations ◽  
Accredited Schools

Objectives The clinical professor track has expanded and reflects a trend toward hiring non–tenure-track faculty in public health; however, little is known about this track. We documented characteristics of clinical faculty at US schools of public health. Methods We surveyed clinical faculty at Council on Education for Public Health–accredited schools of public health in the United States in 2019, identified via each school’s website. We invited faculty (n = 264) who had the word clinical in their title (ie, apparently eligible faculty), had a working email address, and were not authors of this article to provide information about their rank, degree credentials, expectations for teaching, service, research and practice, and promotion criteria at their institution. In addition, we used open-ended responses to explain and contextualize quantitative data. Results Of 264 apparently eligible faculty surveyed, 88 (33.3%) responded. We included 81 eligible clinical faculty in our final sample, of whom 46 (56.8%) were assistant professors and 72 (88.9%) had a terminal degree; 57 of 80 (71.3%) had an initial contract of ≤2 years or no contract. Most clinical faculty listed service (96.2%), teaching (95.0%), and student advising/mentoring (86.3%) as duties; fewer clinical faculty reported research (55.0%), practice (33.8%), or clinic (7.5%) duties. Only 37.1% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that promotion policies for clinical track faculty were clear. Conclusions If most clinical faculty are at the lowest academic rank, with short contracts and unclear expectations, it will be difficult for clinical faculty to advance and challenging for schools of public health to benefit from this track. Clear institutional expectations for scope of work and promotion may enhance the contribution of clinical faculty to schools of public health and help define this track.

The Forging of a Historian: Robert A. Kann in America, 1939–1976

1981 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 2-23
Author(s):  
Stanley B. Winters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Historical Profession

When the late Robert A. Kann entered the historical profession in the 1940's the study of the Habsburg monarchy was in its infancy in the United States. Today, a robust and mature discipline, its leading American practitioners rank equally with those from other countries, and a voluminous literature has deepened our knowledge of that vanished realm. Professor Kann's achievements through teaching, research, and writing over a span of four decades have contributed substantially to this tranformation in a complex scholarly discipline. This essay will recount some of his achievements insofar as they were realized during his years in the United States. It will also recall some personal qualities of a remarkable man whose death on August 30, 1981, at the age of seventy-five, grieved all who knew him and his works.

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