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Prottas, David J.; Cleaver, Catherine M.; Cooperstein, Deborah – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2016
There continues to be a lack of congruence in the attitudes of faculty and administrators with respect to online or distance education. The authors developed and administered a questionnaire to assess pertinent attitudes and perceptions of full and part-time faculty (n= 421) toward online instruction at their private university in a U.S. Middle…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses
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Shobe, Marcia A.; Murphy-Erby, Yvette; Sparks, Jared – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2014
Social work faculty experience increasing demands to develop and maintain a research portfolio that includes external funding and publications. Given the increase in research expectations, more part-time instructors are needed to teach courses. In addition to the literature review, we briefly describe a pilot part-time faculty mentorship project…
Descriptors: Social Work, Social Studies, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty
LoCascio, Susan H. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined (a) the differences in perceptions of faculty, full-time versus part-time, at a community college in northern Alabama on the importance of institutional effectiveness activities; (b) the factors that affect perceptions of the importance of institutional effectiveness activities; and (c) the effect of academic discipline,…
Descriptors: Tenure, Institutional Evaluation, Intellectual Disciplines, Regression (Statistics)
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Winberg, C.; Adams, A.; Esbach, J.; Groenewald, W.; Lakay, D.; Muzondo, I.; Randall, K.; Seane, G.; Siyepu, S.; Veeran, P. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Universities of Technology (UTs) offer career-focused education in a wide variety of disciplines and fields. Traditionally, UTs recruited academic staff with relevant workplace experience, rather than academic qualifications. The result of this strategy was, while many lecturers possessed professional qualifications in their field, they did not…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Qualifications, Employment Qualifications, Tenure
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Jameson, Jill; Hillier, Yvonne – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2008
Approximately 85,000 part-time teaching staff working in further education (FE) and adult and community learning (ACL) are often seen as "a problem". The intrinsic "part-timeness" of these staff tends to marginalise them: they remain under-recognised and largely unsupported. Yet this picture is over-simplified. This article…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Community Education, Adult Education, Part Time Faculty
Applegate, Edd – Online Submission, 1981
In 1981 a questionnaire was mailed to personnel at 42 Kentucky colleges and universities to determine the number of faculty members teaching technical writing, the academic qualifications and professional experiences of these individuals, and the methods they used to teach technical writing. Of the 29 responding, 20 (68.9%) institutions offered…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Questionnaires, School Surveys, Teacher Characteristics
Lhota, Robert L. – 1976
A rationale, background information, fundamental theory, and implementation strategies are presented for a staff development model focused around a Teaching Center and designed to include part-time as well as full-time instructors. Limited financial resources and resultant demands for cost-effectiveness are first discussed, demonstrating the…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Collective Bargaining, College Libraries, Community Colleges