How the Other 2 [microform] : 3 Live: Institutional Initiatives for Part-Time Faculty Assimilation in America's 2-Year Colleges / Michael H. Parsons
- Bib ID:
- 5614921
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Parsons, Michael H
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED417793
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- [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998
- 12 p.
- Summary:
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The number of part-time faculty employed in two-year colleges has risen dramatically in recent years, with current data indicating that 64% of two-year college faculty work part time. It is critical, therefore, that colleges ensure that part-time faculty are well integrated into the organizational culture. In assessing initiatives for helping part-timers assimilate, colleges can look to standards established by their regional accrediting agency or guidelines developed by advocacy groups, such as the American Association of University Professors. In addition, a number of processes have been developed and implemented, making part-time faculty integral components of the college. These processes include such steps as providing handbooks for part-timers, conducting formal evaluations at least once a year, developing mechanisms for recognizing and publishing adjuncts' efforts, providing professional development funds, including adjuncts on college committees, and involving them in curriculum and textbook decisions. Moreover, part-time faculty should be recognized as integral to the future of two-year colleges, in that their broad-based experience adds to the colleges' comprehensiveness and flexibility. Finally, improving the quality of institutional life for part-time faculty is not a finite goal, but a part of the endless process of developing teaching excellence among both part- and full-time faculty. A paradigm for assimilating part-time faculty is appended. Contains 13 references. (BCY)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at Forum 8 of the Annual Convention of the American Association of Community Colleges (78th, Miami, FL, April 24, 1998).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Adjunct Faculty
- Adjustment (To Environment)
- College Faculty
- College Planning
- Community Colleges
- Educational Practices
- Employment Practices
- Faculty College Relationship
- Faculty Development
- Institutional Mission
- Interprofessional Relationship
- Part Time Faculty
- Personnel Policy
- Program Development
- School Policy
- Standards
- Teacher Administrator Relationship
- Teacher Role
- Two Year Colleges
- American Association of University Professors
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hagerstown Junior Coll., MD
- Available From:
- ERIC
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