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American Federation of Teachers (NJ), 2010
Plainly, part-time/adjunct faculty members now play a vital role in educating the nation's college students. Even so, the data and research on part-time/adjunct faculty members have tended to be pretty spotty. This survey, conducted by Hart Research Associates on behalf of the American Federation of Teachers, is one of the first nationwide…
Descriptors: Unions, College Faculty, Compensation (Remuneration), Job Satisfaction
Grenzke, Janet – Update, 1998
This publication presents 14 graphs providing data from interviews with 800 part-time college faculty 396 union members and 404 non-members. Results for union members and non-members are reported separately in each graph. The graphs illustrate the following major findings: (1) over two-thirds of part-time faculty hold other jobs; (2) almost half…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Higher Education, Part Time Faculty, Quality of Working Life
Howard Community Coll., Columbia, MD. Office of Planning and Evaluation. – 2002
This report presents the highlights from the 2001 QUEST (Quality Education for Students and Teachers) Survey for Adjunct Faculty, administered in November 2001 at Howard Community College (HCC) (Maryland). The survey listed 64 service areas to be rated on a 5-point scale ranging from poor (1) to excellent (5), or to indicate if they were…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Job Satisfaction
Mooney, Carolyn J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1990
A survey of 8,383 full- and part-time faculty was conducted by the U.S. Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics. Attitudes about work, workload, allocation of workload and earned income were examined. The new information, combined with the Carnegie survey, suggests an improvement in the conditions of the faculty. (MLW)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Faculty, Faculty Workload, Full Time Faculty
Weglarz, Shirley – 1998
This survey, distributed to adjunct faculty at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) in December 1997, attempts to: (1) determine the relative importance to adjunct faculty of salary and certain benefits; (2) identify the optimum times for staff development; and (3) develop a profile of JCCC's adjunct faculty. A total of 159 completed responses…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Community Colleges, Fringe Benefits, Institutional Evaluation

College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA. – 1993
The Associate Program for Adjunct Faculty (APAF) at the College of the Canyons (CC) in Valencia, California, includes efforts to increase instructional quality by increasing the incidence of good teaching practices among part-time instructors. As part of a project to evaluate the APAF and to determine the involvement of adjunct faculty in the…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, College Planning, Community Colleges
Kronemann, Michaela – 2001
Nearly 1,000 technical and further education (TAFE) teachers in Australia responded to a national survey to determine the impact of funding cuts, constant changes, and restructuring on their work and family life. More than 2,000 questionnaires were sent to a random sample of education union members, approximately 1,700 women and 300 men. In…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Practices
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1979
In spring 1978 National Education Association Research surveyed a national sample of college faculty to obtain estimates of their professional activities, working conditions, characteristics, and opinions. The findings reported here are based on responses from 803 faculty members, or 56.2 of those sampled. Among the findings: the median age of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employment Practices, Faculty Advisers, Faculty College Relationship

Russell, Susan H. – CUPA Journal, 1991
A survey of 11,013 full- and part-time faculty in 450 colleges and universities is reported. Differences between men and women and between minorities and nonminorities are examined in institution type and program area, highest degree held, academic rank and tenure status, age, employment experience, work characteristics, compensation, and job…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Age, College Faculty, Ethnic Groups