DSP Director Dr. Droz Published in Prestigious Journal

Join us as we congratulate our Distinguished Scholars Program Director, Dr. Patricia Droz, for her article, “The Five-Year Job Interview: A call for more bureaucracy on the tenure line" being published in College Composition and Communication, a periodical of the National Council of Teachers of English. We are extremely proud of Dr. Droz’s accomplishment. The success is just one of many earned by Dr. Droz, and we are incredibly grateful for her commitment to education.

 

With an impact factor of .91 and an acceptance rate of only 10%, an article published in CCC is among the highest achievements a composition scholar can earn. Dr. Droz's collaborator on the project was her longtime co-writer and friend, University of Houston - Clear Lake professor Dr. Lorie Jacobs. Their research looked at the workload and working conditions of pre-tenure university writing faculty across the nation. Drs. Droz and Jacobs applied organizational psychology's Job Demands-Resources (JDR) model to explain how role ambiguity creates occupational stress (a job demand), which could be mitigated by the “job resource” of greater bureaucracy, including clearer promotion and tenure guidelines and stronger feedback from supervisors in the form of a more developed performance appraisal system. They found that a more structured approach might have several benefits: reduce affective/emotional labor, improve work conditions for women and minorities, and provide departments with consistent arguments they can make to administration in favor of retaining valuable faculty members.