As higher education emerges from COVID-19 restrictions, the post-pandemic transitional moment provides Catholic institutions the opportunity to reconsider their reliance on adjuncts in core curricula. As tenure-track positions decline nationwide and universities increasingly source out coursework to temporary or part-time adjuncts and other…

The purpose of this instrumental qualitative case study was to address the challenges that community college professors face when curating or creating high-quality and low- or no-cost open educational resources (OERs), the accessibility of the resources, and the impact OER has on student success and social justice in education. The goal of this…

The increase in use of part-time faculty, commonly referred to as "adjunct," has shifted the academic workforce. Utilization of this populace has increased steadily over the past several years and is anticipated to continue this growth as colleges and universities seek cost-cutting measures in balancing their annual budgets. With this…

This article presents new quasi-experimental evidence regarding the effectiveness of teaching-oriented faculty with tenure-track appointment, a model pioneered at the University of California (UC) system. Using data from six cohorts of students at a UC campus, we examine the impact of initial course-taking with three distinct types of…

This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over seven years with academics in the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors analyze the experiences of four types of academics as they respond and adjust to the demands of…

Ongoing need for adjunct instructor support is a critical aspect for institutions to consider. Through research focused on full-time and part-time faculty job satisfaction, a number of practices for supporting faculty and improving job satisfaction have been suggested. In this article, we present an innovative model of instructor resources and…

Higher education institutions are heavily reliant on part-time adjuncts to teach their students. These part-time adjuncts now account for the majority of faculty in the United States. This qualitative study utilizes a phenomenological approach to explore the essence of the lived experiences of part-time adjuncts who travel to more than one…

The purpose of this quantitative study was to use Senge's theory of the Learning Organization to examine faculty perceptions of the importance of information literacy education and the integration of information literacy instruction at three Mid-Atlantic community colleges. The researcher examined faculty characteristics (gender, race, and age)…

Open educational practices (OEP) as a research field is relatively new. One aspect that has received limited attention is the impact of using open educational resources (OER) on the development of OEP. This article, based on a doctoral study (Pulker, 2019), considers teachers' activities when reusing and adapting OER, with a view to providing…

In light of policies and programs designed to address the domination of academic positions by male, frequently white individuals, we review the participation of women, one of multiple minority identities within the academy, in Aotearoa New Zealand's academic workforce using employment data from eight universities from 2002-2017. While the number…

Adjunct, part-time faculty members account for a majority of the faculty group on many campuses in the U.S.A. The hiring of adjuncts saves higher education institutions money, and it provides part-time roles for those interested. However, there is not the rigor of planning for employing adjunct faculty as exists for employing full-time faculty. As…

Higher education institutions are relying more and more on part-time faculty, and are inclined to hire them instead of full-time tenure track faculty. It is important to retain this group of faculty therefore making it necessary to understand how teaching part-time impacts them. The purpose of this exploratory study is to examine burnout among…

In any academic department, faculty members retire or leave for a variety of reasons, and new faculty members are hired to replace departing faculty or fill newly created positions. This report focuses on departures, retirements, recruitments, and new hires in physics and astronomy departments. In our Academic Workforce Surveys, we collect the…

The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to explore if, and to what extent, faculty employment status predicted the subsequent course success and retention of Native American Community College students. Native American students enroll, persist, and graduate at the lowest rates of all students, which is why Tinto's student retention…

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES, 2015) over 750,000 individuals are working as part-time faculty in higher education. As universities are being faced with the corporatization of higher education, many colleges and universities have chosen to hire part-time faculty, also known as adjuncts (Fain, 2014). Adjunct…