![]() Besides being the barometer of the financial strength and social awareness of individual English departments, the ses sional has one power: the power of discourse. They indicate 1) how much money a depart ment has, 2) the degree to which the other faculty are willing to ensure that the economic underdogs have viable working con ditions, and 3) what our present economic situation is. The contract worker is important to include in a discussion about the future of English depart ments, however, because the sessional and the treatment of the sessional are the barometers for an individual English depart ment as a whole. ![]() Because of the insecure nature of this arrangement, the material future of En glish departments is a concern for sessional: W ill they be hir ing? W ill they be expanding? W ill tenured faculty be retiring? W ill retiring faculty be replaced? W ill there even be English de partments in the future? A sessional is the person least able to define the future of English departments because he or she does not, typically, have any power to shape the policies or direction of the employing department. A sessional faculty member is hired on contract to teach one to three courses for a pre determined period, usually one academic year. ROBINSON Royal Military College/Queen's University I represent A sessional’s perspective, and because of that particular perspective, determining the future of English de partments resonates with urgency. Toffyannainthe IvoryTower2000: TheTosy ffuture ofToyfishDepartments fF romaSessional iPerspective LAURA M. They maintain unexpectedly high levels of satisfaction by adjusting their aspirations to current economic realities.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: At the same time, the majority of students appear to have reconciled themselves to the more adverse conditions of university life. Undergraduates at MUN expressed dissatisfaction with the following aspects of the student experience: teaching, administrative procedures, student loans, social support and advising and counselling for students. Satisfied students appear much more optimistic than dissatisfied students that their education will prepare them for the limited opportunities after graduation. Furthermore, student satisfaction is an emotional state oriented toward future expectations. ![]() The unequal distribution of these resources and the inability to define goals in an organizational setting ultimately account for variation in student satisfaction levels. To achieve these goals students require certain resources - monetary support, cultural capital, institutional rewards, social support networks and lay referral systems. This study suggests that an important part of the integration process involves the pursuit of goals in the organizational setting. institutional experiences and the characteristics of the university affects student satisfaction. However, while this research has added to our understanding of how the 'degree of fit' between students and their environments may affect educational outcomes, there is still a significant gap in our knowledge as to how the interplay of students' entry traits, thei. These models suggest that students who are integrated into the social and academic domains of university life express higher levels of satisfaction than those less socially and academically integrated. Much of the data are quantitative, American and designed for use in conceptual models of attrition or retention. Higher education scholars have paid little attention to student satisfaction as an educational outcome. ![]() It identifies those factors that affect student satisfactions and recommends ways to make the university experience more satisfying and rewarding for students. ![]() This study describes the perceptions and satisfactions of 43 senior students in the Faculties of Arts and Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission. PDF (Migrated (PDF/A Conversion) from original format: (application/pdf))Īvailable under License - The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Student satisfaction : the view from the bottom of the ivory tower. ![]()
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