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Academic freedom
Academic labor market: The economic conditions that impact that academic workforce.
Administration: Includes college or university presidents, those who are heads of academic units, departments, or schools, and who may or may not have faculty status.Includes human resources staff.
Adoption
Benefits
Business Models in Higher Education: Refers to the use of corporate models of work in academia, with positive or negative effects
Chief academic officers: Includes provosts, vice presidents, and other central administrators at an academic institution, below the president.
Childcare: Relates specifically to issues around the care of children in or outside the workplace, while their parent or parents are working.
Climate: Pertains to the work environment, including access to resources, both positive and negative (e.g., sexual harassment), interpersonal relationships with coworkers, and other concerns related to interactions and experiences in the workplace.
Collaboration: Refers to collaboration between academic workers, often in the classroom or within a department to further work or research in a given field.
Collegiality: Refers to the feeling of community among and respect between academic workers on an interpersonal level.
Compensation
Consulting: Academics working as consultants in industry or another field outside academia.
Deans
Department heads: Includes heads of academic teaching departments as well as heads of research or other related units.
Dependent care: Pertains to the care of spouses, domestic partners, parents, or other relations.
Dependent care leave
Distance education/Online education
Diversity: Refers to diversity of the academic workforce, including the gender, race, and sexual orientation of academic workers.
Domestic partners: Includes both same-sex and non-same-sex domestic partners recognized by the policy-maker.
Dual-career couples
Early career: Refers to the first several years of work for faculty, usually the yearsbefore tenure attainment.
Faculty
Faculty as entrepreneurs
Faculty research
Faculty service
Faculty teaching
Family
Flexible work policy
Full-time faculty
Gender (comparison): Refers to discussion of gender that includes men and women, often in comparison regarding salary, family issues, etc.
Governance: The opportunity to participate and have a voice in senates, committees, or meetings that impact policy, climate, etc., in the academic workplace.
Governing boards: Trustees, regents, and other central governing bodies in academia.
Government policy
Graduate student workers in academia: Refers to graduate students who work as teaching and/or research assistants, or in some other capacity in academia.
Graduate students
Graduate students as future faculty
Institutional policy: Refers to policy governing the academic workforce at the university or college level.
Instructional faculty: Used for materials that specifically discuss instructional faculty specifically in relation to Non-instructional faculty (e.g., collaboration with library staff); rarely used.
Leadership
Leave
Medical leave: Pertains to leave for a medical condition or procedure, disability, etc., aside from pregnancy leave.
Mentoring
Merit review: Refers to review of academic workers, often related to promotion. Also used for post-tenure review.
Mid career: Refers to the years between tenure attainment and senior status in faculty careers.
Mobility: Refers to the movement of faculty between the tenure and non-tenure tracks.
Modified duties policy: Gives employees a period of time with reduced work responsibility to recover from childbirth, or to care for an infant, a seriously ill partner or spouse, parent, or child.
Negotiation: Relates to collective bargaining and individual kinds of negotiation with regard to compensation, mobility, etc.
Non-instructional faculty
Non-tenure-track faculty
Non-traditional families: Immediate families that may include adopted children, domestic partners, single parents, etc.
Organizational fit
Part-time faculty: Faculty who work less than 100% for a given institution, either as a reduction of full-time equivalency or as an initial appointment.
Personal leave
Phased retirement
Policy
Policy creation
Pregnancy
Pregnancy leave: Provides paid time off for women who are pregnant, giving birth, or recuperating from childbirth, and typically ranges from six to eight weeks, or one academic term in length.
Professional development
Promotion
Publication/Professional product
Race/ethnicity
Rank: A faculty member's place on the tenure track.
Recruitment and hiring
Retention and attrition
Retirement
Salary
Satisfaction
Scholarly leave: Leave for sabbatical, further education, or teaching at another institution.
Senior career: Refers to faculty career stage typically spanning the time from reaching full professor until retirement.
Spouses
Statistics: Quantitative data on the academic workforce, such as distributions of race, gender, rank, full-time vs. part-time, etc.
Status: Pertains to the amount of respect afforded academic workers by their peers and administrators in their work environment.
Student/faculty issues
Supply and demand
Technology transfer: Refers to the transfer of research results to outside partners to produce benefits for communities and the general public.
Tenure
Tenure attainment
Tenure clock stop/extension policy: Stops the tenure clock or extends it for a designated period. Granted for dependent care, illness of the faculty member, or other reasons.
Tenure-track faculty
Tenured faculty
Unions
Unit-level policy: Policy implemented at the unit or department level in the academic workplace.
Women
Work conditions
Work/life balance
Workload