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Institutional support for computing faculty research productivity: does gender matter?
ACM Southeast Regional Conference (2012)
  • Monica M. McGill, Bradley University
  • Amber Settle, DePaul University
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. 
Keywords
  • Gender,
  • faculty,
  • tenure,
  • promotion,
  • institutions,
  • Taulbee,
  • requirements,
  • collaboration,
  • publications,
  • presentations
Publication Date
March 29, 2012
DOI
10.1145/2184512.2184522
Publisher Statement
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2184512.2184522
Citation Information
Monica M. McGill and Amber Settle. "Institutional support for computing faculty research productivity: does gender matter?" ACM Southeast Regional Conference (2012) p. 36 - 41
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/asettle/35/