The status of part-time faculty at Ferris State College during the 1984 fall quarter was investigated. A total of 53 part-timers completed the survey, which was based on the concerns of members of the Ferris Professional Women's organization. It was found that part-time faculty members were likely to be female, 36-50 years old, married, with a…

Concerned with the growing utilization of part-time community college faculty and their isolation from full-time faculty and institutional support, an inter-disciplinary team of community college and university faculty investigated current part-time faculty development efforts. Five models emerged, including "benign neglect", a workshop approach,…

A study was conducted to survey all of the adult basic education (ABE) teachers in the state of Washington, giving special attention to the part-time teachers' demographic characteristics and inservice training needs. The study also sought to compare the teachers' statements of need with those of administrative supervisors of the state's local ABE…

A model and implementation process is presented for projecting student headcount and credit hour and contact hour enrollment for each academic area and all areas aggregated by semester and fiscal year for each campus of Montgomery College, Maryland. The projection model is suggested as a managerial tool to assist the college's management to…

In California community colleges there are 14,273 people who are employed full-time as instructors. Another 20,027 are employed as part-time faculty members. In the past three years there has been an estimated annual increase of 10 percent in the number of part-time faculty employed. Benefits of utilizing part-time instructors include: (1) The…

Aspects of part-time teaching addressed in this report, based on a survey of college faculty, include: the "flexibility seeker," the "work seeker," disadvantages of part-time employment, a taxonomy of part time, personal characteristics of part-timers, the part-timer's workplace, and the work history of part-timers. (LBH)

Examines the rationale for the use of part-time faculty; discusses concerns related to recruitment and selection and instructional quality; and addresses the relationship between part-time faculty and the institution. Suggests implementation of a plan by which faculty are paid differentially for a variety of teaching-related functions. (LAL)

Argues that if community colleges are to thrive as institutions of higher learning, they must endeavor to integrate adjunct faculty more fully within the institution and channel more energy into recognizing, understanding, and supporting part-time faculty, and creating cohesion between them and their full-time counterparts. (AYC)

The practice of hiring part time faculty at many colleges and universities and the discriminatory treatment they often receive in salary, tenure, and other employment conditions are described. (RM)

Citing a decreased proportion of full-time tenured faculty at American colleges and steady increase of part-time adjunct and other nontenure-track faculty, this American Federation of Teachers' (AFT) document advocates professionalism of the manner in which part-time/adjunct faculty are employed, compensated, supported and treated in higher…

Many colleges and universities use "adjunct faculty" as a means to address increasingly unpredictable student populations, questionable funding formulas, and tightened education budgets. Initial evidence suggests, however, that the practice of using them contains flaws. This research was conducted to determine existing circumstances of adjunct…

This study examined the perceptions of chief instructional officers (CIOs) at community colleges accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA) regarding: difficulty in meeting accreditation criteria for part-time faculty, challenges in implementing commonly cited practices for employing and utilizing part-time faculty,…

This document consists of the twelve issues of the quarterly journal "Adjunct Info" during the three-year period 1994-1997. Individual issues contain articles, editorials, columns, teaching tips, and suggested resources related to management of adjunct and part-time faculty. Major articles include: "A Message to Managers: From an Adjunct" (June…

This study used data from classroom visits, mentor surveys, and adjunct focus groups at Westminster College, Utah, to determine where part-time college faculty need the most assistance. Results were compared with research about the challenges student and novice teachers encounter in the schools. Just like student and novice teachers, part-time…

Data from the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99) show that fewer than one-third of all faculty members were tenured in 1998-1999. Some observers anticipate a trend toward a two-tiered system with a shrinking number of tenured faculty members in one group and a mix of part-time and nontenured full-time faculty members in the other.…