ABSTRACT
Socialization occurs throughout an individual’s career, although it is particularly intense during the initial years when a new recruit joins an organization (Tierney & Perkins, 2015). According to Tierney and Rhoads (1993) the values, beliefs, and attitudes held by new university faculty members about their roles strongly reflect their socializing experiences and mirror the culture of fellow faculty members, their disciplines, and the individual institutions they attend. That is, the implicit and explicit ways individuals learn to become university faculty members shape how they go about their roles once they enter academic life (Tierney, 1997).
