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Kezar, Adrianna; Sam, Cecile – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2010
This monograph complements volume 36, issue number 4 of ASHE Higher Education Report: "Understanding the New Majority of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty," and focuses on theories applied to study non-tenure-track faculty and philosophical and practical tensions represented in the literature. The chapter "Theories Used to Study and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nontenured Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
Eddy, Margot Sanders – 1981
The innovative actions that faculty, and institutions on behalf of faculty, have taken to adjust to retrenchment and the changing academic profession are considered. It is suggested that faculty have three kinds of employment options to present conditions such as the scarcity of tenure-track positions and the failure of salaries to keep pace with…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Counseling, Change Strategies, College Faculty
Thompson, Donna M. – 1995
Like many businesses across the country, institutions of higher education have been increasing the use of part-time and/or temporary staff. Nationally, adjuncts teach between 30%-50% of all credit courses and between 95%-100% of noncredit courses. At community colleges, adjuncts composed 60% of all faculty as of 1991, up from 56% in 1984 and 42%…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Beginning Teacher Induction, Community Colleges, Educational Practices
Gappa, Judith M.; Leslie, David W. – 1993
This book examines the practices that support and enhance the value of part-time faculty both in and outside the college classroom, offering 43 specific recommendations to help institutions plan and manage their use of part-timers, develop fair employment policies, and invest in part-timers as valued human resources contributing to the quality of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Educational Environment, Employment Patterns