The Scholarly productivity of inbred and noninbred faculty in schools of nursing with graduate and undergraduate programs

The purpose of this study was to examine if there was a difference in the scholarly productivity of noninbred and inbred faculty in schools of nursing that have graduate and undergraduate programs. Also, interactions between the variables--faculty status, academic rank, scholarly productivity, highest degree, private/public control, and the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) categories of institutions of higher education--were investigated. Scholarly productivity was defined as research activities, professional activities, and scholarly publications. The sample included 1671 faculty on tenure track from 36 schools of nursing that received continuing National League for Nursing accreditation during 1985-1988. Data were retrieved from faculty resumes in Self-Study Reports. Chi-square and multivariate analysis of variance were used to statistically analyze the data. The findings revealed that the most significant interactions occurred between scholarly publications and research activities by academic rank, highest degree, private/public control, and AAUP schools of nursing. There were no significant interactions by noninbred or inbred status, the majority of the faculty had no research or scholarly publications. There were significant interactions between professional activities by noninbred faculty and academic rank, highest degree, private/public control, and AAUP schools of nursing. Noninbred faculty in private schools of nursing had the highest mean in professional activities.