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Victor C. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As the pedagogy of online instruction in higher learning institutions and universities continues to grow, academic leaders must determine the needs and ambitions of online faculty and staff to facilitate workplace satisfaction, personal growth, faculty retention, and professional progress. The problem is that, as the pedagogy of online instruction…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Electronic Learning, Correlation, Preferences
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Ott, Molly C.; Dippold, Lindsey K. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Recent research suggests at least half of community college faculty who are teaching part-time would rather have a full-time appointment (Cashwell, 2009; Kramer, Gloeckner, & Jacoby, 2014). Little is known, however, about what distinguishes those voluntarily teaching part-time from those preferring a full-time faculty position. This inquiry…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Part Time Faculty
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Beaton, Fran – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
Part-time teachers form a growing proportion of the global Higher Education (HE) workforce. Their backgrounds can vary from Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) teaching for the first time, to practitioners bringing workplace experience into HE and sessional teachers, all with differing professional development needs. This paper builds on previous…
Descriptors: Part Time Faculty, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Case Studies
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O'Neill, Marie; Musto, Lara – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2017
Using a mixed methods research approach this study explores faculty perceptions of LORLS at DBS. Data generated by the study will inform advocacy, marketing and training initiatives to promote the platform. The study concludes with a number of deductive and inductive findings. The first is that although DBS faculty are highly predisposed to using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Lists, Business Schools, College Faculty
Page, Kimberly Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2016
During the 21st century Great Recession, college enrollments increased as displaced workers trained to advance their skills (Baum & Ma, 2012). At the same time, state funding to community colleges declined (Baum & Ma, 2012; Ehrenberg, 2012). Although higher enrollments increased tuition revenues, they were insufficient to cover the gap…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Community Colleges, Teacher Selection
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Prottas, David J.; Cleaver, Catherine M.; Cooperstein, Deborah – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2016
There continues to be a lack of congruence in the attitudes of faculty and administrators with respect to online or distance education. The authors developed and administered a questionnaire to assess pertinent attitudes and perceptions of full and part-time faculty (n= 421) toward online instruction at their private university in a U.S. Middle…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses