Five part-time adult basic education instructors were trained to develop tutorials for their students by using the SuperPILOT authoring language to insert their own questions, answers, and hints in already existing generic programs. The project involved 18 hours of training and ongoing supervision and review of products. A total of 66 tutorial…

A study was conducted at a multicampus community college in Michigan to determine the role orientation of full- and part-time occupational faculty. In addition to collecting demographic data, the study sought to determine whether faculty were locals, characterized by a high level of loyalty to the organization and a low commitment to specialized…

A survey was administered to 194 colleges and universities offering instructional technology graduate degree programs to obtain information for a current reference source on their admission and program requirements, degree emphases, enrollment and faculty data, program features, and curricula, for the year 1978-79. All of the institutions…

A survey was conducted of colleges and universities to determine the use of exemption for tenured faculty members and of decoupling measures permitted under Department of Labor regulations. The survey was a followup of an earlier study by the American Council on Education. The followup sample was composed of the 353 institutions in the original…

The ethics and economics of supplemental teaching are discussed by a dean of continuing education. It is suggested that the provision of opportunities to faculty that take them away from their primary responsibilities is a minor aspect of the ethical problem. Continuing education overload compensation is generally low, and there are many people…

Faculty salary and workload data for 1978-1979 are presented as determined by a survey of the 70 California community college districts. Tables in Section I of the report provide district and statewide information on: (1) the number and percent of full-time and part-time faculty; (2) the salaries paid for full-time instructors in 1978-1979, the…

A questionnaire was sent to part-time instructors of adults in four selected areas of Ontario to determine the kinds of adjustments made and the resources used in the move from teaching children and youth to teaching adults. The study reveals that continuing education programs are characterized by informality, fewer discipline problems, and a…

Approximately 74% of the faculty of Arizona's public community colleges are part-time employees; many of these who teach occupational courses have been recruited from business, trades and industry, and have little background in professional educational methodology, but extensive experience in their fields. This report describes a project designed…

In order to design a participatory governance structure of the Division of Continuing Education and Community Services at Bristol Community College (BCC), the authors surveyed 85 randomly selected community colleges throughout the country; 14 institutions responded. Only two institutions, both in Colorado, seemed to have exemplary shared-authority…

The lack of staff development, preservice, orientation, and inservice training programs for part-time community college instructors is considered a serious problem. This brief contains two examples of staff development programs for part-time vocational instructors. The first document, Dr. Milo P. Johnson's "Staff Development for Part-Time…

Part-time instructors constitute a growing proportion of community college instructors. They receive no fringe benefits or office space, they are not assigned to faculty committees, and they sign quarter-to-quarter contracts which contain no stipulation of job security, even for the quarter contracted. There are three reasons for hiring part-time…

This document, prepared as an accreditation report, provides an overview of the function, structure, services, and staffing of Coastline Community College (CCC), a noncampus institution which opened in September 1976. CCC was established because of continuing increases in the number of students in the Coast Community College District. Fiscal…

Personnel development programs for postsecondary vocational and technical faculty in selected postsecondary educational institutions in several states are identified and described according to the following criteria: (1) objectives of the program; (2) organization of the program; (3) cost of the program; (4) motivation of staff; (5) pedagogical…

Contained in this document are the results of nine studies in which various aspects of two-year college faculty were investigated. Data used in the studies were obtained from a 1975 nationwide study of 1,998 two-year college faculty, of whom 1,493 were humanities instructors and 505 were non-humanities faculty members. The areas investigated…

A survey of faculty, students, and administrators in a large Canadian university examined the characteristics of part-time faculty, their perceptions and treatment within the institution, and how the actions and attitudes of their significant others influence self-image and behaviors. (MSE)