Part-Time, Adjunct, and Temporary Faculty: The New Majority? [microform] : Report of the Sloan Conference on Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty (Arlington, VA, December 2-3, 1997) / David W. Leslie
- Bib ID:
- 5620283
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Leslie, David W
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED422771
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- Description:
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- [Washington D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998
- 39 p.
- Summary:
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This report examines the changes, and the potential consequences of those changes, in the employment patterns of American academics, focusing specifically on the use of short-term and temporary instructors by postsecondary institutions. Following a brief introduction, the report describes shifts in hiring patterns of postsecondary institutions, noting that 41.6 percent of all faculty at such institutions are now part-time. The next section details the differences between part- and full-time faculty, using economic and demographic data from the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. The causes of the dramatic increase in part-time faculty are examined, and it is suggested that the expansion of community college programs has been the main contributing factor--although no one single factor explains the shift. The effects that the increased reliance on part-time instruction have had on the quality of education is described in the subsequent section, followed by a discussion of the attitudes of part-time faculty toward their work. The final sections of the report examine how the shift to part-time instructors has created changes in the nature of the academic profession that may be impacting the integrity of academic institutions. A list of Sloan Conference participants is appended. (Contains 16 references.) (MAB)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, NY.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Academic Rank (Professional)
- Adjunct Faculty
- College Faculty
- Educational Quality
- Employment Practices
- Faculty College Relationship
- Faculty Workload
- Higher Education
- Nontenured Faculty
- Occupational Mobility
- Part Time Faculty
- Postsecondary Education
- Teacher Characteristics
- National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty Temporary Faculty
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- ERIC
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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