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Direct linkAdamowicz, 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
Moorman, Barbara; And Others – 1980
Job sharing is defined as "two people sharing the responsibilities of one full-time position with salary and benefits prorated"; the concept focuses on positions usually offered only as full-time jobs, often in professional and managerial categories. This book is a guide for teachers and administrators on the implementation and use of…
Descriptors: Adults, Board of Education Policy, Employment Practices, Faculty Workload
Peer reviewedWinter, 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
Download full textColorado Commission on Higher Education, Denver. – 1994
This report provides data on instructional workloads at 28 Colorado public universities, colleges, and community colleges during the 1992-93 academic year. The workload data includes classroom and laboratory instruction (Type A), as well as individual instruction (Type B), such as independent study, thesis hours, and dissertation hours. It does…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Community Colleges
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)
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. – 1978
Intended to test the feasibility of job-sharing in Hawaii's schools, this project was set up to provide job sharing of one hundred teaching positions on a fifty-fifty basis between experienced tenured teachers and new hires. The report describes the purpose and intent of the project; defines job sharing; establishes tentative guidelines for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Practices, Employment Qualifications, Feasibility Studies
