Context: As instructional part-time, non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) come to constitute an increasing proportion of all teaching faculty in the United States, significant research has investigated the experiences and perspectives of these essential higher education workers. In past decades, a subset of this work has sought to typologize this…

Background: Research shows that the academic profession is largely held together by cultural rules and norms imparted through various socialization processes, all of which are viewed as sensible ways to orient rising professionals. In this paper, a critical perspective is assumed, as we utilized the concept legitimacy and legitimation to better…

Suggests that highly scholarly active faculty exist in substantial numbers on select college campuses and that such faculty are more likely to be perceived as effective teachers than faculty who are not scholarly active. Presents some findings from an ongoing reseach project as an argument about faculty priorities. (SM)