Workload and Rewards

Authors: O’Meara, K., Misra, J., Jaeger, A.J., & Culpepper, D.

This article provides actionable advice for individual faculty members on how to contribute to a more equitable and inclusive academic workplace. It outlines five key strategies: examining and addressing one's own biases, advocating for fair and transparent processes in hiring and promotion, actively mentoring and sponsoring underrepresented colleagues, challenging inequitable practices and policies, and fostering an inclusive classroom environment.

Authors: Beddoes, K., Schimpf, C., & Pawley, A. L.

Engineering education scholars have demonstrated an interest in broadening the scope of the field in multiple ways, including issues addressed and approaches employed. These scholars have argued the need to broaden the epistemological and methodological boundaries of the field. However, numerous challenges to such expansion exist, and they must be better understood if the potential of broadening the field’s boundaries is to be fulfilled.

Authors: Arnold, N. W., Crawford, E. R., & Khalifa, M.

Faculty who have been historically excluded from participating in academia present a unique quandary for those who have traditionally held power at the university. This article explores the promotion and tenure (P&T) process of Black faculty using a psychological construct to examine how racial micro-aggressions manifest and articulate themselves through individual and organizational phenomena such as Racial Battle Fatigue (RBF). We applied a psychological approach to narrative inquiry to examine how two faculty of color experienced the P&T process.

Authors: Baez, B.

Based on a qualitative study of sixteen faculty of color at a private research university, this article argues that service, though significantly presenting obstacles to the promotion and retention of faculty of color, actually may set the stage fora critical agency that resists and redefines academic structures that hinder faculty success. The construct of `service,' therefore, presents the opportunity for theorizing the interplay of human agency and social structures.

Authors: Carrigan, C., Quinn, K., & Riskin, E.A.

This study explored whether there is a gendered division of labor for faculty in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) at research universities and examined the connections between time allocation and satisfaction for STEM faculty within the context of a critical mass of women in the discipline. Using a weighted sample of 13,884 faculty from the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04), we found a gendered division of labor that is mitigated by a critical mass of women faculty in the discipline.

Authors: Misra, J., Lundquist, J.H., Holmes, E., & Agiomavritis. S.

This article introduces the concept of the "ivory ceiling," arguing that excessive and often unrewarded service work disproportionately hinders the career advancement of women and faculty of color in academia. It posits that while service is a necessary component of academic life, the demands for such work often fall more heavily on marginalized groups due to institutional expectations and assumptions about their roles in fostering diversity and community.

Authors: Culpepper, D., Kilmer, S., O’Meara, K., Misra, J., & Jaeger, A.J.

Faculty members experience a gap between how they would prefer to spend their work time and how they actually do so. In this article we report results from a four-week workshop called “The Terrapin Time Initiative.” It was guided by theories of behavioral economics and behavioral design, which suggest that small changes to the context, or “choice architecture,” in which individuals make choices can enhance decision-making.

Authors: Culpepper, D., Kilmer, S., O’Meara, K. A., Misra, J., & Jaeger, A. J.

Faculty members experience a gap between how they would prefer to spend their work time and how they actually do so. In this article we report results from a four-week workshop called “The Terrapin Time Initiative.” It was guided by theories of behavioral economics and behavioral design, which suggest that small changes to the context, or “choice architecture,” in which individuals make choices can enhance decision-making.

Authors: O’Meara, K., Jaeger, A., Misra, J., Lennartz, C., & Kuvaeva, A.

We conducted a randomized control study to improve equity in how work is taken up, assigned and rewarded in academic departments. We used a four-part intervention targeting routine work practices, department conditions, and the readiness of faculty to intervene to shape more equitable outcomes over an 18-month period.

Authors: O’Meara, K., Jaeger, A., Misra, J. Lennartz, C. & Kuvaeva, A.

We conducted a randomized control study to improve equity in how work is taken up, assigned and rewarded in academic departments. We used a four-part intervention targeting routine work practices, department conditions, and the readiness of faculty to intervene to shape more equitable outcomes over an 18-month period.