شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The present study aimed to identify and interpret concerns of early career faculty in Jordanian universities. 336 Early career faculty members who participated in this study were asked to rate their perceptions of issues related to teaching, research, service, balancing work and home life and the academic culture of their workplace. Means and Standard Deviations, ANOVA, and a two tailed t-test were used to determine any differences among the mean scores of early career faculty concerns in Jordanian public and private universities, and them for each of the demographic variables. Results revealed that Teaching and Research have the highest level of concerns, Workplace, Service, Personal and Social Information have the moderate level of concerns. MANOVA results revealed significant differences on the early career faculty concerns regarding to university type, sex, and country that faculty member received his doctorate. No significant affect on the early career faculty concerns related to their social status. (Published abstract)