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PERCEPTION OF BARRIERS: THE EXPERIENCES OF LECTURERS IN ADAPTING TO CHANGING INSTITUTIONAL EXPECTATIONS IN UPGRADED PRIVATE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY IN TAIWAN
by
Nan Nan Chiang
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2011
Copyright 2011 Nan Nan Chiang
Object Description
| Title | Perception of barriers: the experiences of lecturers in adapting to changing institutional expectations in upgraded private technological university in Taiwan |
| Author | Chiang, Nan Nan |
| Author email | nnc@usc.edu; nanchiang@ymail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-12-20 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-02-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Sundt, Melora |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hentschke, Guilbert C. Baca, Reynaldo |
| Abstract | In 1996, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan adopted a policy to allow technical and vocational junior colleges to become four-year colleges. In order to strengthen the faculty’s structure, the institutions expected the lecturers to seek and earn promotion to higher rank as soon as possible. After a decade, there were still a great number of lecturers who remained at the same rank. This study aimed to learn from un-promoted lecturers and their administrators about the lecturer’s experiences with changing work expectation and the lecturer’s difficulties with promotion. In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 32 lecturers and 10 administrators at two private upgraded vocational higher institutions.; Seven barriers were found for lecturer’s difficulties in conducting research and getting promoted to higher rank and there was much agreement in the categories mentioned by lecturers and administrators. The seven barriers identified were inadequate research support such as research equipment, funding, library database, and research assistants; work adjustment from teaching and service to teaching, research and service due to changing workload; barriers of publishing in prestigious international journals due to inadequate research and English skills; difficulty of using the authoring of specialized publications and technical reports to earn a promotion to associate professor due to unclear expectations from the Ministry of Education; longer time frame required to earn a doctorate in the humanities and social sciences versus in other specialized disciplines; age, especially in that lecturers over 50 had less tolerance of long hours of research and study; and family responsibility, such as taking care of small children and sick parents for lecturers of both genders.; It was further found that both the lecturers and the administrators perceived the lecturers should be mainly responsible for the success of their promotion to higher rank because the institutions had policies in place to encourage lecturers to promote to higher rank. Though both the administrators and the lecturers perceived lecturers’ barriers to promotion as less related to problems such as inadequate research equipment and funding and more related to personal problems such as age and family responsibility, there are still some improvements the institutions can make to increase the promotion rates for all lecturers. The recommendations provided in this study can not only be helpful in improving lecturers’ promotion rates but can also enhance mutual understanding between institutions and lecturers. |
| Keyword | technological and vocational higher education in Taiwan; research productivity; barriers of promotion to higher rank; adapting to changes |
| Geographic subject (state) | Taiwan |
| Geographic subject (country) | China |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3662 |
| Rights | Chiang, Nan Nan |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Chiang-4283 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Chiang-4283.pdf |
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| Full text | PERCEPTION OF BARRIERS: THE EXPERIENCES OF LECTURERS IN ADAPTING TO CHANGING INSTITUTIONAL EXPECTATIONS IN UPGRADED PRIVATE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY IN TAIWAN by Nan Nan Chiang A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2011 Copyright 2011 Nan Nan Chiang |
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