At Valencia Community College's Osceola Campus, adjunct instructors make up over 75% of the teaching force. Adjunct faculty are given several challenges: to contribute to every aspect of campus life; to affect major instructional instruction; and to be aware of the constraints created by college policy and a regard for instructional excellence.…

Since the 1970s, there has been a growing trend in the number and percentage of part-time, adjunct, and contingent faculty in higher education. While the working conditions of such faculty vary dramatically, their employment conditions are substandard when compared to those of their full-time colleagues. Generally, they do not receive any benefits…

This document includes 10 issues of Leadership Abstracts (volume 6, 1993), a newsletter published by the League for Innovation in the Community College (California). The featured articles are: (1) "Reinventing Government" by David T. Osborne; (2) "Community College Workforce Training Programs: Expanding the Mission to Meet Critical…

This paper addresses the "graying of faculty," faculty recruitment and retention, roles and responsibilities, evaluation, professionalism, and issues related to part-time faculty. The student body of today's community colleges is tremendously diverse, making the recruitment and retention of new faculty even more complicated. As approximately…

The experimental college must not only define new standards of quality education, but also the means to achieve it, and to defend itself against the educational establishment which it seeks to subvert. (Editor)

Strategies were based on a low-key consultative technique designed to build community-college ownership of the program. The project resulted in staff-development activities at each college, including resource handbooks for part-time faculty, meetings with full-time personnel, and greater access to existing services. (Author)

Discusses the second class status experienced by part-time faculty in terms of office space, opportunity to meet with peers, and access to the decision-making process. Suggests the creation of a committee of part-time instructors as an effective means of assuring their integration into the college's mainstream. (JP)

Outlines the conditions leading to the passage of the tenure law for Illinois public community colleges. Reveals problems with the law's lack of definitions. Discusses the negative effects of the law on local control and part-time faculty. (AYC)

Describes the organization and functions of the Union of Civic and Workers' Institutes, which provides an organizational framework and general regulations for Finland's civic and workers' institutes of adult education, represents and promotes the institutes, arranges training for teachers and administrators, and publishes educational materials and…

A part-time community college teacher and a state senator have filed a complaint with the Department of Education, arguing that the regional accrediting agency is ignoring its own rules about use of part-time faculty. The proportion of part-time faculty has doubled in two decades, to over 40%. Excerpts of the six regional agencies' standards are…

Examines data from 1980, 1985, and 1990 that measure how colleges in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) changed their patterns of resource allocation in response to reduced resources. Shows that VCCS colleges reduced staff, utilized more part-time faculty, increased student faculty ratios and reduced expenditures. Includes 10 data tables…

Describes a model developed to improve the integration of part-time faculty, using socialization, communication, and participation strategies to enhance identification with the institution. Discusses results from a study of community college strategies for integrating part-time faculty, indicating that few institutions had aggressive strategies.…

Offers citations for publications that provide general overviews of various issues related to part-time faculty. Issues include part-time faculty roles and functions, teaching methods and effectiveness, training, institutional integration and professionalism, job satisfaction, and compensation and benefits issues. (Contains 10 annotated references…

Reviews trends in the employment of part-time faculty, sources of part timers, and rationales for hiring them. Summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of employing part-time faculty, concluding that financial constraints will ensure their continued place in higher education. Advocates the development of appropriate recruitment, orientation,…

Presents findings from a nationwide study of community college faculty, focusing on faculty characteristics (i.e., sex, age, ethnic background), academic preparation and experience, professional associations, publications, long-range goals, class size, teaching style, self-evaluation, prior community college attendance, job satisfaction, and…