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To Heaven or Hell: Sensemaking about Why Faculty Leave

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  • KerryAnn O'Meara
  • Andrew Lounder
  • Corbin M. Campbell

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This article analyzes sensemaking about faculty departure among administrators, faculty colleagues, and faculty leavers in one research university. A mixed methods database was analyzed to reveal four dominant explanations for faculty departure and two influences on sensemaking. Dominant explanations included better opportunities, the likelihood the faculty member would not get tenure, family and geographic reasons, and work environment and fit. Sensemaking was influenced by status expectations and proximity to the departure. Implications for future research on faculty careers, and for campuses interested in improving faculty retention, are drawn.

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  • KerryAnn O'Meara & Andrew Lounder & Corbin M. Campbell, 2014. "To Heaven or Hell: Sensemaking about Why Faculty Leave," The Journal of Higher Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 85(5), pages 603-632, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:uhejxx:v:85:y:2014:i:5:p:603-632
    DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2014.11777342
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    1. Katherine Grace Hendrix, 2021. "Disrupting institutional erasure: Organizational exit, remembrance, value, and the need to matter," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(4), pages 1323-1336, July.
    2. Damani K. White-Lewis & KerryAnn O’Meara & Kiernan Mathews & Nicholas Havey, 2023. "Leaving the Institution or Leaving the Academy? Analyzing the Factors that Faculty Weigh in Actual Departure Decisions," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 64(3), pages 473-494, May.
    3. KerryAnn O’Meara & Audrey Jaeger & Joya Misra & Courtney Lennartz & Alexandra Kuvaeva, 2018. "Undoing disparities in faculty workloads: A randomized trial experiment," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(12), pages 1-15, December.

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