Institutional Expectations of Faculty Work: Making Meaning of the Message

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Abstract

This study sought to understand how faculty receive and interpret institutional expectations of their responsibilities (teaching, research, and service). Findings indicate that faculty were actively involved in a process of meaning-making of the varied and often mixed messages they received at different points in their first years at the institution. Part of this meaning-making process involved making sense of contradictions such as reported being asked to prioritize research work, regardless of their institutional type.

Author

• Karla I Loya, University of Hartford