The academic expectations of academic staff from their universities

Abstract

The objectives of this research are first to determine the level of academic expectations of academic staffs working in seven universities in the Aegean Region in Turkey. Second is to determine the level of realization of these expectations. Third is to asses the effect of the realization level of these expectations on their performances and to propose some suggestions. This research is based on a descriptive study using a general survey model. The research sample comprised of 620 academic staffs and was selected based on stratified random sampling. The data were collected through a developed Likert scale survey questionnaire and analyzed based on the descriptive techniques and parametric statistical techniques. The researchers concluded that most of the academic staffs did not have any academic expectations from their universities. © Kamla-Raj 2014.