TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose This research explores whether gender affects faculty satisfaction with opportunity for advancement in rank at two elite liberal arts colleges in the United States.Methodology We analyze survey data from associate and full professors to identify predictors of satisfaction with advancement. Focus group and interview data supplement our interpretations of regression results.Findings The two colleges differ in the impact of gender, rank, perceptions of the full professor promotion process, and quality of department relationships on satisfaction with advancement. At one college, there is no gender difference, while at the other, women are less satisfied than men. The effect of gender at this college is fully mediated by department relationship quality.Research limitations This cross-sectional study was conducted at only two colleges. Interpretations of the quantitative results are inductively generated and not tested in the analysis.Practical implications We make recommendations to improve processes and pathways for promotion that recognize the role of department climates in fostering or hindering career progression. Gender may be less salient in contexts in which associate professors have positive department relationships and in which promotion criteria value their administrative service and other institutional contributions sufficiently.Originality Previous research about promotion to full professor has focused on research universities while we examine the issue at liberal arts colleges, institutions that emphasize undergraduate study.
VL  - 19
SN  - 978-1-78441-070-4/1529-2126
DO  - 10.1108/S1529-212620140000019008
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620140000019008
AU  - Berheide Catherine White
AU  - Walzer Susan
PY  - 2014
Y1  - 2014/01/01
TI  - Processes and Pathways: Exploring Promotion to Full Professor at Two Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States
T2  - Gender Transformation in the Academy
T3  - Advances in Gender Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 177
EP  - 198
Y2  - 2024/09/22
ER  -