Over the past 5 years, the percentage of credit teaching in the California Community Colleges (CCC) system conducted by part-time faculty has grown from 40 to 47 percent. In fall 1999, two-thirds of teaching faculty were classified as part-time. Part-time faculty do not generally receive medical or retirement benefits and are paid significantly…

In this paper, the author/educator recalls a 1972 article that reviewed 11 books about the English to minorities. Over the years, teaching issues have been debated--one commonly discussed topic of the '90s being Ebonics. The author asserts that the public at large pays no attention to most academic writing. Exploitation of graduate students as…

This document discusses the creation of a faculty development program in Valencia Community College's Osceola Campus called Faculty to Faculty Connection. Part-time faculty makes up 48-55% of classes taught depending on the discipline, which is higher than the College's full time to part time ratio. The program's purpose is to address two concerns…

A part-time faculty fellowship was established at the Medical College of Pennsylvania to integrate the humanities into the medical school curriculum. The fellowship has been awarded in successive years to educators in philosophy, history, religion, and art, and an elective course is developed each year to relate humanities to medicine. (MSE)

Traces the development of the part-time academic advisement program at John Wood Community College (a college with no full-time faculty of its own). Enumerates the problems which necessitated the use of part-time advisers, profiles the staff involved, and presents the results of the first year's evaluation. (AYC)

Data from a nationwide survey of part-timers, conducted by the American Association of University Professors in 1977, are used to compare job-related characteristics of males and females and their motivations for working part-time. The data suggest that part-time academic employment may be a female issue. (Author/MLW)

A California court ruling that part-time community college faculty are temporary and therefore have limited access to the state community college tenure system is discussed and criticized. (Journal availability: Wm. W. Gaunt & Sons, 3011 Gulf Drive, Holmes Beach, FL 35510, $6.50.) (MSE)

The use of part-time, adjunct faculty by many colleges as a money-saving device is reviewed. Implications for both personnel and institutions are illustrated by example and by National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) statistics. (JMF)

Describes a part-time instructor needs assessment survey devised during the 1978 spring term at Richland College in the Dallas County (Texas) Community College District. The survey provided a way for part-time faculty to share in the planning of relevant staff development programs to help them function more effectively. (MF)

A study of two-year college humanities instructors surveyed demographic data, attitudes and preferences, reference group identification, and measures of job satisfaction and personal functioning. (JG)

A national study indicates that part-time faculty now teach a major portion of undergraduate studies, and that most institutions plan to use more in the future. Data from the study are used to describe part-time faculty characteristics, how they contribute to their institutions, and the conditions in which they work. Suggestions are made for…

To reach rural populations, the University of Namibia hires part-time faculty with varying qualifications on one-year contracts to conduct distance education. A study of these teachers' classroom behavior and attention to course content, based on observations made by their full-time faculty supervisors, suggests that they are substantially lacking…

Describes a study of the perceptions of adjunct faculty at New York City Technical College regarding the adequacy of: (1) their orientation to the college; (2) instruction/information provided on policies, regulations, grading, examinations, syllabi, lectures, and course development; (3) office space, secretarial support, and instructional aids;…

Examines the employment of part-time faculty at private junior colleges in terms of numbers and full-/part-time ratios; expectations with respect to teaching load, student advisement, faculty meeting attendance, committee service, and evaluation; characteristics (e.g., formal education, teaching experience, sources, subject areas, additional…