Colleagueship in different types of post-secondary institutions: a lever for faculty vitality

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we analyzed 50 faculty interviews to explore the function of colleagueship across different types of institutions. Our findings highlight that colleagueship served toward the improvement of teaching, disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning, securing one’s research agenda, career management, and friendship. We attend to the nuances of our findings within distinct institutional types, and offer several suggestions for practice and research.

KEYWORDS:

• Academic staff
• collegiality
• faculty
• faculty development
• qualitative

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.