Leaving the Institution or Leaving the Academy? Analyzing the Factors that Faculty Weigh in Actual Departure Decisions
Leaving the Institution or Leaving the Academy? Analyzing the Factors that Faculty Weigh in Actual Departure Decisions
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DOI：
10.1007/s11162-022-09712-9
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发表时间：
2022-08
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Damani K. White-Lewis;KerryAnn O’Meara;Kiernan Mathews;N. Havey
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作者：
Damani K. White-Lewis;KerryAnn O’Meara;Kiernan Mathews;N. Havey
虽然研究揭示了许多因素，预测教师营业额，文献往往是有限的使用意图离开作为实际营业额的代理，并进一步巩固教师谁离开机构与教师谁离开职业。我们解决这些限制，并通过研究教师谁实际上离开了他们的高等教育机构的学术和非学术工作推进教师流动文献。基于对773名离职教师的调查，我们采用了结构主题模型和逻辑回归来了解学术和非学术离职者是否有统计学上不同的离职原因。结构主题模型揭示了教师离开的12个主要原因，但这些原因都不是那些离开学术界的人所独有的。回归结果表明，性别，任期地位和工资增长是离开学术界的显着驱动力。我们为未来的研究教师离职和教师保留。
Although research has revealed many factors that predict faculty turnover, the literature is often limited by using intent to leave as a proxy for actual turnover, and further by consolidating faculty who leave institutions with faculty who leave the occupation. We resolve these limitations and advance the faculty mobility literature by studying faculty who actually left their higher education institution for both academic and non-academic jobs. Drawing on a survey of 773 departing faculty respondents, we employed structural topic modeling and logistic regression to understand whether or not academic and non-academic leavers had statistically different reasons for leaving. Structural topic modeling revealed 12 dominant reasons why faculty leave, but none of these reasons were unique to those who left academia. Regression results show that gender, tenure status, and salary increase were significant drivers of leaving the academic profession. We provide implications for future studies of faculty departure and for faculty retention.