Scholarship and research of allied health deans and directors

In 1997, a questionnaire was sent to 141 allied health deans or directors to: 1) determine current research and scholarship, 2) ascertain institutional expectations regarding scholarly activities, 3) characterize the institution's research environment, 4) quantitate scholarship productivity by point assessment, and 5) compare scholarship of administrators from research universities with that of those at non-research four-year colleges and universities. Seventy-three (52%) responded. Measures of research productivity included time spent in research, numbers of publications and presentations, and grantsmanship. While spending two thirds of their time in administrative duties, many deans and directors were actively involved in scholarship. Since 1990, they had, as a group, produced 855 publications, made 1,348 presentations, and been awarded $38.3 million in total funding. They did not differ significantly by employing institution (a research institution or a non-research institution).