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Co-Principal Investigators
Richard P. Chait and Cathy A. Trower
Trower and Chait, co-principal investigators for the Study of New Scholars, have well-established national reputations as experts on faculty work life. Separately or together, they have published dozens of articles, chapters, and books on the topic. They recently concluded work on a $2 million, 3-year Project on Faculty Appointments funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. That study generated numerous products including:
 The Questions of Tenure (Spring 2002, Harvard University Press), which poses and empirically answers 10 central questions about tenure that have heretofore been answered solely anecdotally or not at all.
Policies on Faculty Appointment: Standard Practices and Unusual Arrangements (2000, Anker Publishing), which catalogs the norms and innovations in a stratified random sample of 250 faculty handbooks from 4-year U.S. colleges and universities in nine key areas of faculty employment.
Faculty Employment and Worklife Policies (Fall 2002, Jossey-Bass), which includes case studies on faculty employment issues, organizational leadership, and change.
A 300-page statistical report based on the national survey of doctoral students and first- and second-year faculty about the factors that most influence job choice within the academy: Faculty Recruitment Study: Statistical Analysis Report. Also a companion follow-up 51-page report that highlights information from doctoral students who accepted employment outside the academy, those who entered faculty employment, and those who remained unemployed.
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Richard P. Chait
Cathy A. Trower
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A key-word searchable CD-ROM (Faculty Appointment Policy Archive) that contains the faculty employment policies of 250 four-year U.S. colleges and universities randomly selected from 1,380 such institutions. The policies may be sorted according to Carnegie classification, collectively bargained institutions, or by state.
Faculty employment data templates (and Excel spreadsheets), piloted with 3 colleges and 7 universities, that tracks faculty employment by gender and race from point of hire through retirements including time to tenure; tenure success rates; part-time vs. full-time; tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track full-time faculty and percentage of payroll tied to each category; age of faculty in each category; projected retirements five years out; and outcomes of post-tenure review.
Numerous articles in AAHE Bulletin, Change Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, Next Wave (the on-line career network for Science Magazine), The Department Chair, and Trusteeship.
Some 60 presentations at conferences and academic institutions across the country, seminars for journalists and legislative leaders, and presentations at Harvard’s executive education programs for senior level college and university administrators.
Dr. Cathy A. Trower earned a doctorate in Higher Education
Administration at the University of Maryland at College Park in
1996. In addition to her Ph.D., Cathy has an M.B.A. and a B.B.A.
from the University of Iowa. Dr. Trower has published numerous articles
and several book chapters about faculty work life, and edited a
book entitled Policies on Faculty Appointment: Standard Practice
and Unusual Arrangements (2000, Anker Publishing). Prior to
coming to Harvard, Cathy was a senior level administrator of business
degree programs, and an adjunct faculty member, at Johns Hopkins
University.
Staff Research Assistant
Kiernan Mathews, Ed.M.
Kiernan Mathews has engaged in work primarily in the policies and processes of colleges and universities during periods of significant organizational change. He has conducted research for the Harvard College Curriculum Review, has assisted former Harvard President Derek Bok in a forthcoming book on undergraduate education, and has authored case studies on faculty resource allocation and curricular transformation. Prior to coming to Harvard, Kiernan was the Project Manager for many new technology initiatives at Routledge Publishing and The LEGO Company. He holds a B.A. in Classical Studies with a minor in English from the Honors College of the University of Houston and an Ed.M. from Harvard.
Former contributors to the Study of New Scholars include Jared Bleak, Heidi Neiman-Short, and many others.
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