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Institutional support for computing faculty research productivity: does gender matter?

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Monica M. McGill,

Amber SettleAuthors Info & Claims

ACMSE '12: Proceedings of the 50th annual ACM Southeast Conference

Pages 36 - 41

https://doi.org/10.1145/2184512.2184522

Published: 29 March 2012 Publication History

Abstract

We address the question of how male and female computing faculty in the U. S. and Canada perceive research requirements and institutional support for promotion and tenure. Via a survey sent to approximately 7500 computing faculty at the 256 institutions that participate in the annual Taulbee Survey, our results identify differences in reported tenure and promotion requirements, including the number of publications required during the probationary period, the importance of the scope of publication venues, the importance of publishing in non-refereed journals, and the importance of collaborative presentations. Differences were also discovered in institutional support and the satisfaction levels with that support. The study finds that some misperceptions may exist about promotion and tenure requirements among female faculty while at the same time female faculty feel more supported by their institutions.

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Institutional support for computing faculty research productivity: does gender matter?
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  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Computing occupations

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DOI:10.1145/2184512

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Onyefulu C(2024)Perceptions of Faculty on Research ProductivityDeveloping Effective and High-Performing Teams in Higher Education10.4018/979-8-3693-3852-0.ch012(339-366)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2024
https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-3852-0.ch012
Hancock KMaranon RMontgomery ATims J(2021)Female Scholars in Computer Science: The Role of Family and Other Factors in Achieving Academic Success2021 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT)10.1109/RESPECT51740.2021.9620629(1-8)Online publication date: 23-May-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/RESPECT51740.2021.9620629

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