THE TOWN OF BATAVIA, ILLINOIS, EXPERIMENTED WITH A PLAN FOR TRAINING ITS OWN READING TEACHERS. FORMER TEACHERS AND OTHER WELL-QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY WERE HIRED TO TEACH 2 TO 4 DAYS EACH WEEK. DURING THE PRESCHOOL PLANNING DAYS, THE SPECIAL READING TEACHERS (ONE FOR EACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL) MET WITH THE READING COORDINATOR TO…

The data presented in this pamphlet are from the survey of salaries and tenure of full-time instructional faculty for 1974-75. Tables 1-4 show mean salaries of instructional faculty by rank, sex, and level of institution; table 5 shows the percentage of women among the full-time instructional faculty by control and level of institution in the 50…

The Adult Students' Guide is designed to assist the busy part-time Adult Basic Education Teacher maintain a continuous evaluation of individual student's progress. The guide presents an overview of the five curriculum areas in Adult Basic Education. The contents of the guide are: (1) instructions to teachers; (2) evaluation questionnaire; (3)…

This document contains comprehensive information designed to orient the part-time faculty member to the College of the Mainland. Information included in the handbook covers the history and philosophy of the college; student and instructor rights; a description of social and economic characteristics of the students; a description of the faculty;…

Describes political and economic conditions in English Departments that are being manipulated to the detriment of the writing discipline and the teacher of writing. (DD)

The trend toward staffing ongoing programs with part-time faculty should be reversed, and some proportion of the part-time positions introduced since the 1970s should be converted to tenure-track assistant professorships. Part-time faculty should not be consigned to a permanent marginal labor pool through superficial improvement of part-time…

One of the ways public colleges and universities are adjusting to changing financial circumstances is by hiring more part-time faculty and teaching/research assistants than full-time faculty. The possible long-term effects of this change should be watched closely by campus and state leaders. Several cost factors have triggered the trend:…

This study uses institutional level data from the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis of the State University of New York (SUNY) System to investigate reasons for growth in the share of faculty members in U.S. colleges and universities who are part-time or full-time without tenure track status. It presents background data on how the…

Part-time faculty members are a sizeable part of the workforce in postsecondary institutions today. Forty-two percent of all instructional faculty and staff were employed part time by their institutions in the fall of 1992, and 44 percent of those individuals were teaching in two-year institutions. Data from the 1993 National Study of…

Using data from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99), this study examined the characteristics and roles of teachers of undergraduate students. The findings are based on a nationally representative sample of postsecondary faculty and instructional staff. In fall 1998, U.S. colleges and universities employed about 1.1 million…

This document contains two sections: a literature review of material related to part-time faculty, and the review's bibliography. The most recent research indicates that the use of part-time faculty positions in higher education as a proportion of total faculty positions has reached a plateau. The recently released study by the U.S. Department of…

This report describes the roles and productivity of faculty members in the Oregon University System (OUS). Of the 3,199 ranked instructional faculty members in 2000-2001, three-fourths were full time, but the proportion of full-time faculty in the senior ranks and holding tenure has declined since 1995-1996. The proportion of faculty members who…

The use of adjunct faculty members is largely dictated and controlled by institutional needs and policies that exist outside academic departments. Within those institutional frameworks, however, there exist substantial opportunities for departments to improve the working conditions of adjunct faculty members. Through the judicious use of…

During the last decade, concerns have been raised regarding the national increase in temporary and part-time appointments for faculty with an accompanying decrease in permanent full-time faculty. This report reviews trends in the employment of full- and part-time faculty at Maryland's public colleges and universities between 1981 and 1998.…

Employment of part-time teachers can increase the number and variety of subject offerings while holding down teacher costs. (Author)