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Striking a Bargain?
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Anastasopoulos, Nicholas – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Massive Open Online Courses ("MOOCs") are free, online courses offered by institutions of higher education to individual users across the world, and in the vast majority of cases, without any admissions criteria. MOOCs are popular with individuals because they offer unprecedented, free access to the best institutions in the world that…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Higher Education, Distance Education, Access to Education
Five Years Later: Maryland Adjuncts Tell Us (Again) Who They Are and What They Want
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Dolan, Dallas M.; Hall, Marilyn S.; Karlsson, Carl Richard; Martinak, M. Linda – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2013
Adjunct faculty make up a large contingent of faculty teaching in today's colleges and universities. In fact, the use of adjunct faculty allows these institutions to fulfill their educational missions. Much is written in the popular press and in periodicals dedicated to higher education about adjunct faculty. While some of this is accurate, a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Credentials, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
Hiring Freeze
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Cooper, Kenneth J. – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
Recession reduces job opportunities in the professoriate, particularly in areas where minorities are clustered. It's a tough time to want to be a professor or try to climb the faculty ranks, particularly for minority faculty, as Dr. Christopher Tudico, a Mexican-American, and others are finding. The recession and its go-slow recovery have cut the…
Descriptors: State Aid, Personnel Selection, Teaching Load, Employment Opportunities
On Adjunct Labor and Community Colleges
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Adamowicz, Catherine – Academe, 2007
The 2006 report from Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, "Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U. S. Higher Education", made recommendations that most parttime faculty cannot follow. The report "urge[s] postsecondary institutions to make a commitment to embrace new pedagogies, curricula,…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Community Colleges, Teaching Load, Governance
Business Faculty Recruitment: The Effects of Full-Time versus Part-Time Employment.
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Winter, Paul A.; Kjorlien, Chad L. – Community College Review, 2001
Describes a study conducted in response to the aging of community college instructors and the need to replace large numbers of retiring faculty. Explains the study's recruitment simulation, which used graduate students in MBA programs in the Midwest. States that, when asked if they would prefer to teach part-time or full-time, respondents…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Aging in Academia, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Part-Time Faculty: A Principled Perspective.
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Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Sacramento. – 2002
This paper details the history of part-time faculty use in the California Community Colleges (CCCs). The status and use of part-time faculty hired on temporary assignments in the CCCs has been a long-standing and growing concern of the Academic Senate. In 1960, the ratio of full-time faculty to full-time students in the public junior colleges was…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Compensation (Remuneration)