JOINED VPI& SU: 1982
CURRENT PROJECTS: Bayer's current research in the sociology of education area entails a series of national studies of contrasting undergraduate student-faculty perspectives on college classroom misconduct manifested by professors. He has a proposal pending with NSF on a parallel study addressing ethical standards in American doctoral training programs, and a proposal with NIH/ORI on assessing university social control measures regarding scientific misconduct. In the science studies area, he is undertaking a bibliometric network analysis of the influences of contemporary feminist theory in sociological literature. Through Virginia Tech's Center for Survey Research, he also collaborates in conducting more than 20 surveys each year assessing various local, regional, and national public policies and programs. He is co-investigator on an annual Virginia statewide survey monitoring quality of life and trends over time.
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Pennsylvania State Univesity |
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Florida State University |
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Florida State University |
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CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:
Sociology of Higher Education
Survey Methods
Gender
Sociology of Science
Ethics in Sociology
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Reward Systems in Higher Education Institutions
Assessment of Teaching Norms Held by the Professoriate
Influence Networks of Feminist Scholars
Bibliometric Analysis of Scholarship in Science
Ethical and Normative Structures Affecting Misconduct in Science
Impact of Collaboration in Science
SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Consultant: National Science Foundation; National Institutes of Health; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Associate Editor, Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research (annual by Agathon Press)
Consulting Editor, Journal of Higher Education
National Advisory Board and Review Panel Member, ERIC Report Monograph Series on Higher Education
Advisory Board Member, Higher Education Series, Vanderbilt University Press
Outstanding Alumnus of the Year (1994), Excellence in Education Award, Pennsylvania State University, College of Education and Alumni Society
Alumnus of the Year Award, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences (1994)
Phi Kappa Phi honorary society
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Braxton, John M. and Alan E. Bayer (Eds.) Faculty
and Student Classroom Improprieties, Jossey-Bass Publishers (2004).
Braxton, John M. and Alan E. Bayer. Faculty Misconduct in Collegiate Teaching. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Other Publications
Bayer, Alan E., et al. Quality of Life in Virginia (report on a survey conducted and published annually through the Virginia Tech Center for Survey Research).
Lisette M. Garcia and Alan E. Bayer. Variations Between Latino Groups in U.S. Post-Secondary Educational Attainment. Research in Higher Education, 46 (forthcoming, August, 2005).
Bayer, Alan E. and Susan M. Willis-Walton. The Virginia Nursing Workforce in the New Millennium. Virginia Nurses Today. Vol. 10, 2002, 1, 5-6.
Braxton, John M. and Alan E. Bayer. Proactive Responses to Professorial Misconduct: The Chair’s Role. The Department Chair. Vol. 12, 2002, 15, 18-20.
Mardy T. Eimers, John M. Braxton, and Alan E. Bayer. Normative
Support for Improving Undergraduate Education in Teaching-Oriented
Colleges. Research in Higher Education, 42 (October, 2001),
569-592.
Bayer, Alan E. and John M. Braxton. Teaching Norms and the ASA’s Code of Ethics. ASA Footnotes. Vol. 28, 2000, 4.
John M. Braxton, James A. Noseworthy, and Alan E. Bayer. Students as Tenuous Agents of Social Control of Professorial Misconduct. Peabody Journal of Education, 77:3 (Fall, 2002), 101-124.
Bayer, Alan E. and John M. Braxton. The Normative Structure of Community College Teaching: A Marker of Professionalism. Journal of Higher Education. Vol. 69, 1998, 187-205.
Braxton, John M., Mardy T. Eimers, and Alan E. Bayer. The Implications of Teaching Norms for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education. Journal of Higher Education. Vol. 67, 1996, 603-625.
Braxton, John M. and Alan E. Bayer. Personal Experiences of Research Misconduct and The Response of Individual Academic Scientists. Science, Technology, & Human Values. Vol. 21, 1996, 198-213.
Braxton, John M. and Alan E. Bayer. Perceptions of Research Misconduct and an Analysis of Their Correlates. Journal of Higher Education. Vol. 65, 1994, 351-372.
Department of Sociology
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