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@WeiLinChen16 and I completed a Latent Class Analysis on the Wabash Study data from @UIowaEducation in Research in Higher Education w/@SpringerNature . The LCA includes 28 outside-of-the-classroom activities and behaviors. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
We found ten classes of first-year student engagement:
-academic artists-8.3%
-party athletes-7.7%
-serious athletes-6.1%
-conventional non-workers-12%
-disengaged-14%
-maximizers-5.2%
-moderate workers-7.6%
detached partiers-14.2%
-involved partiers-14.1%
-religious-11%.
-academic artists-8.3%
-party athletes-7.7%
-serious athletes-6.1%
-conventional non-workers-12%
-disengaged-14%
-maximizers-5.2%
-moderate workers-7.6%
detached partiers-14.2%
-involved partiers-14.1%
-religious-11%.
Students reporting as first-generation and some racially minoritized groups are overrepresented in the disengaged and underrepresented involved partier classes, while racially minoritized students alone were overrepresented among academic artists.
A lot of grad students/post-docs have been telling me that they are interested in small liberal arts colleges (#SLAC) b/c SLACs have "good work-life balance." Let me comment on this briefly. 1/n
2/n SLACs simply have a different incentive structure/set of requirements for tenure & promotion. The way I see it, since the focus is more on teaching, that's something more within the faculty member's direct control (in contrast to grants, you never know what'll land).
3/n For those interested in a SLAC prof job, or ANY job for that matter, your work-life balance depends on (1) alignment b/w your vision for your work, what's asked of you by the institution, & what resources your institution provides you to reach those requirements.
