All Community college faculty members should automatically have 20 percent of their time assigned to community service courses. This will bring community services into the mainstream of the educational program and will assure financial coverage of community service courses. The resulting slack in the regular curriculum should be filled by…

Designed for new adjunct faculty at Reading Area Community College (RACC), this handbook provides an orientation to the college's policies, procedures, and services applying to the credit instructional program. Part 1 presents the history and philosophy of the college; discusses its mission, goals and, accreditation; and includes an organizational…

This booklet addresses two of the competencies needed by part-time faculty who teach adults. The competencies are adult learning and the need for quality in preparation to assure quality in instruction. The booklet begins with a discussion of just who the adult learners are. The next topic is adult motivation to learn at the beginning, during, and…

In spring 1984, a study was conducted at the University of Maryland's University College to evaluate the effectiveness of computer studies faculty. The student ratings of these faculty members were compared with the ratings given to mathematics faculty and to all other faculty teaching that term. On all three evaluation criteria (i.e., encourages…

The increasing number of part-time faculty, especially in university speech communication departments, appears to provide vital continuity in professional development. There are three kinds of part-time faculty: those with new doctoral degrees who want to teach full time but who cannot find appointments, those who are still active or semiactive…

THE JOB OF FIELD TEACHER CONSISTS OF THREE MAIN DUTIES. FIRST, HE SETS UP THE PROGRAM BY SELECTING THE CHILDREN AND RECRUITING AND TRAINING PARENT AIDES. SECOND, HE COORDINATES THE PRESCHOOL CENTERS. THIS INCLUDES INTERPRETING THE PROGRAM TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL, ORGANIZING PARENT EDUCATION, PLANNING EXCURSIONS, ARRANGING INSERVICE AND STAFF MEETINGS,…

Policies, regulations, procedures, and general information are provided in this handbook designed to help orient new part-time faculty at Hillsborough Community College (HCC). After introductory material outlining the history of HCC and stressing the importance of the student in HCC's mission, the handbook describes HCC's evening and weekend…

Suggestions for an individualized approach to staff development of adult educators is offered in this monograph. Individual commitment to professional growth and administration allocation of time and resources are seen as prerequisites to implementation of any program. In discussing program types, the report cautions that large group programs,…

Adjunct (part-time) faculty comprise 35 to 45 percent of the teachers in two-year colleges, yet receive virtually no systematic assistance in professional development. In 1972, Hagerstown Junior College (Maryland) initiated a program of staff development for adjunct faculty to remedy this deficiency. The program is designed to familiarize adjunct…

The number of instructors in the Evening Colleges on the three Los Rios District campuses has grown from 550 in fall 1972 to 954 in fall 1975, a 73 percent increase. Of these instructors, there has been a 137 percent increase in the hiring of part-time instructors drawn from off-campus sources. Meanwhile, the percentage of full-time day faculty…

During 1975-76 Cuyahoga Community College surveyed 37 institutions in different parts of the country to obtain information on faculty compensation. Thirty institutions responded, of which 19 submitted separate information on part-time faculty remuneration, the focus of this report. Part-time remuneration data for 1975-76 are compared to data for…

Over a 6-month period, a four-man team from the University evaluated the first year of Project APT (Applying Partnerships to Teaching) sponsored by the Hartford College Counseling Center (HCCC). Objectives of Project APT were 1) to find and develop a new source of locally available, quality teaching talent by recruiting, counseling, and placing…

The perceptions of part-time faculty at the Downtown Campus of Florida Junior College concerning what their role in college governance should be, what it actually was, their satisfaction with their governance role, and their general knowledge of how the governance process operated, were surveyed by means of a questionnaire sent to 112 part-time…

A questionnaire was sent to 502 Nottingham University part-time teachers in adult education to assess their attitudes towards their training programs. Based on 202 completed questionnaires, new approaches to training programs were formulated. (EC)

Compares part-time and full-time faculty in the areas of teaching experience; selection of course materials; use of instructional media, out-of-class activities, and support services; grading practices; and involvement in professional activities, indicating that the part-time teacher works under much less favorable conditions. (MB)