Analysis of Faculty Members Attitude towards Academic Development Endeavors in Some Selected Ethiopian Universities

This article aims to analyse the attitudes of faculty members on how the current
academic development programs were enacted in selected Ethiopian Universities.
With the help of multiple cases design, evidence was gathered from faculty through
attitude scale having a reliability index of 0.77. Moreover, a document study
including the day-to-day surveillance of the researcher’s observations and
colleague’s reflections were also included. In the investigation, 250 cases have
taken part. The findings of the study reassured that faculty members’
predisposition on professional development programs to augment the level of
educational activities was not aversive. The analysis of variance, F- test
demonstrated that there were no significant differences among faculty members
when gender and study sites had taken as variables. However, F-value was
significant for years of experience. Moreover, less experienced and lower level
qualified faculty members hold significantly favourable attitudes as compared to
veteran and more qualified one. Overall, the study claims that universities should
adapt options, and continue to use technologies as a means to bring faculty from
different programs together and benefit from learning online.