All liberal arts courses at Macomb County Community College where teacher contact with students exceeded the hours for which students obtained academic credit were examined, and comparisons were made with five neighboring universities and eight neighboring community colleges. Macomb's practice of paying for additional teaching time out of general…

This publication provides data on day-program full-time faculty teaching loads in the Los Angeles community colleges for the fall semesters 1972 through 1975, compared to total statewide averages, and statewide small college and large college averages, by instructional discipline. Faculty load is computed by dividing weekly student contact hours…

This publication provides data on day faculty teaching loads in the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) for fall 1973 and fall 1974, and compares this data to statewide statistics. The overall LACCD teaching load in fall 1974 was 532 weekly student contact hours per full-time faculty member, compared to 531 for large community colleges…

Data from the 1973 "Community and Junior College Directory" were analyzed to identify differences between full-time and part-time faculty. The data factors analyzed include: (1) type of control (public or private); (2) basic type of program (occupational, academic, both); (3) years in operation; (4) geographic region; (5) number of students; (6)…

Explores differences between instructional practices of full- and part-time faculty using results of a survey of more than 1,500 community college instructors. Reports that discrepancies emerged regarding time spent in various classroom practices, availability of faculty to students outside class, and faculty connections with colleagues and the…

In fall 1994, the University and Community College System of Nevada (UCCSN) undertook a survey of the total workload of all full-time instructional faculty employed during the semester. In the survey, faculty were asked to report the average amount of time per week they devoted to teaching, research, and service activities. Survey findings, based…

In fall 1996, the University and Community College System of Nevada (UCCSN) undertook a study of the workload of full-time instructional faculty employed during the semester. Surveys were sent to 1,479.3 full-time equivalent faculty requesting information on the average amount of time per week devoted to teaching, research, and service activities.…

This study presents information on instructional staffing in the Los Angeles Community College District in a format that facilitates the development of staffing standards appropriate to specific disciplines or program areas. This year's study compares Fall 1996 staffing levels in three different ways: (1) data on Full-Time Equivalent Faculty…

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…