Surveys current members in the "Directory of Theatre Programs" to analyze factors influencing theater degrees nationwide. Focuses on graduate and undergraduate populations, the number of full- and part-time faculty members, the availability of release time for faculty, and the quantity and types of productions offered by theater…

A survey of Canadian university students did not support the assumption that the presence of part-time faculty had a negative effect on students' learning experience. Students tend to be unaware of or indifferent toward differences between part- and full-time faculty status. (Author/MSE)

Argues that the division of college staff into full-time and adjunct faculty leads to differentiated teaching services. Reviews statistics on adjunct faculty employment. Recommends that adjunct faculty be required to hold office hours and suggests hiring and promotion policies to improve the performance of adjunct teachers and enhance student…

There is an illusion that each of the thousands of women now teaching writing and other service courses for inadequate pay, benefits, recognition, and job security is doing so only because of her own choices or misjudgments. The illusion must be dispelled; exploitation is at the center of the phenomenon. (MSE)

A study in a private, urban university investigated characteristics and attitudes of part-time faculty relating to developmental advising for college students. Results indicate that years of association with the institution positively affect faculty engagement in developmental advising. Implications are drawn for enhancing faculty commitment to…

Describing economic and professional marginalization of adjunct faculty and reluctance of tenured colleagues and administrators to work for change, calls for institutional caps on percentage of courses taught by adjuncts, a pay rate closer to 75 percent of tenured salary rather than the current 25 percent, and time limits on adjuncts teaching full…

Presents findings from a survey of 159 community colleges to determine their use of part-time faculty, hiring and employment practices, and training and evaluation methods. Indicates that colleges made considerable use of part timers but that few provided benefits or adequate resources for development. (14 citations) (BCY)

Discusses the increasing movement toward organization of part-time college faculty, graduate students, and full-time faculty members who are off the tenure track, describing activities of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor and the California Part-Time Faulty Association. Notes that despite active organization on both coasts, the movement…

Reports data from a survey of freestanding writing programs in the United States and Canada, and provides a context for interpreting the findings. Gives empirical evidence of long-held consensus about the working conditions and compensation of non-tenure-track faculty. (SG)

Discusses how some colleges are letting tenured and tenure-track professors cut their hours and pay to spend more time with their families. (EV)

Discusses the increasing influence that the graduate student caucus is having on the Modern Language Association. Graduate students are now well represented on the organization's delegate assembly and executive council. Critics see the students as using fear and intimidation to press their needs in a bleak job market over other organizational…

Gives an overview of the differences between part-time and tenured/tenure-track faculty members, with particular attention to how these differences may impact students' perceptions of instructors' accessibility. Introduces the construct of extra-class communication (EEC) and explores how faculty employment status of instructors may affect…

This paper reports on a qualitative case study concerned with how the use of part-time faculty influences and embodies organizational culture at one southwestern community college. It examines how four differing cultural perspectives interact from a functional perspective to allow the college to fulfill its mission, and how those four perspectives…

Examines experiences of part-time teachers and the meanings they attribute to them. Draws on data from contact with university sociology departments (n=12). Concludes that academic sociologists should take a moral and practical interest in part-time teachers because they are implicated in the reproduction of sociology and sociologists. Provides…

In the 2007 Legislative Session, House Bill 384 (HB 384) directed the New Mexico Higher Education Department to produce an Annual Accountability Report in collaboration with each public postsecondary educational institution in the state of New Mexico. The report contains information pertaining to: (1) faculty compensation and benefits practices;…