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Craig, Ford M. – 1988
In 1987, a study was conducted to identify organizational patterns facilitating faculty development programs for part-time instructors in technical-community colleges. The study involved a review of literature and a mailed survey to 80 public technical-community colleges in Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, and Kansas. A…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty Development, Faculty Handbooks
PDF pending restorationFellows, David B. – 1975
A study was conducted to develop and test an evaluation plan for part-time continuing education faculty at St. Petersburg Junior College. Components of the plan included development of a self-instructional booklet on concepts of adult education and use of the booklet by part-time faculty prior to their teaching assignment, self-evaluation by…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods
Download full textKiefer, Robyn Dickinson – 1997
Designed for use by community college practitioners in planning for changes related to the advent of the Information Age, this paper provides an overview of the literature addressing the changing role of college faculty. The first section provides a context for the changes, focusing on forces acting upon the colleges, such as the economic…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Decentralization, Educational Change
Jackson, Edward John – 1986
A study was conducted at Fayetteville Technical Institute to compare the effectiveness of full- and part-time faculty in terms of evaluations from department chairs, student evaluations, grades assigned, and class attrition. Study findings, based on evaluation results, grades, and attrition rates for 37 full-time and 47 part-time faculty employed…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Full Time Faculty, Grading
Falk, Charles Frederick – 1975
A study was conducted to assess commonalities and differences in perceptions among full- and part-time community college business instructors and their supervisors in selected Illinois public community colleges for the following areas: (1) supervisory and personnel development practices currently utilized with business instructors; (2) the ranked…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Business Education Teachers, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Fent, James E. – 1979
Adjunct faculty, that is, part-time instructors employed for a specific purpose who may not be teachers by profession, comprise more than 50% of the total teaching faculty in community colleges. This study investigated what selected community colleges identified as professional development needs of adjunct faculty, and what adjunct faculty…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations
Long, Edward J., Jr. – 1978
In order to determine the characteristics of continuing education instructors at St. Petersburg Junior College, as well as their professional development interests and attitudes toward the college, a survey was administered to the 125 instructors and yielded an 82% response rate. The study showed: (1) the most typical instructor was a white…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age, College Environment, College Faculty
