Reviews research on the use of part-time faculty in community colleges, focusing on employment trends; impacts and concerns; economic advantages; the effects of funding uncertainty; part-time faculty members' expertise, instructional quality, socialization, and selection; standardization of process and teaching skills; and implications for…

Describes a study of the effects of the demographic characteristics and teaching experience of full- and part-time science and humanities faculty on the type of instructional materials used in class, the number of pages of required reading, self-preparation of instructional materials, and the degree of participation in material selection. (DMM)

Results of a survey of new and experienced part-time faculty at Britain's Open University concerning their attitudes toward learning teaching skills on the job give insights into the teachers' self-confidence and attitudes about their work. (MSE)

This handbook, primarily for new part-time teaching staff at colleges and universities in the United Kingdom, focuses on tutoring and demonstrating teaching skills. Following an introductory chapter, six additional chapters provide an orientation to tutoring and demonstrating. Chapter 2 presents an overview of the roles and responsibilities of new…

Designed for use by community college practitioners in planning for changes related to the advent of the Information Age, this paper provides an overview of the literature addressing the changing role of college faculty. The first section provides a context for the changes, focusing on forces acting upon the colleges, such as the economic…

A study was conducted at Mercer County Community College in Trenton, New Jersey, to determine whether there was any significant difference in the amount of learning attained by students who received instruction from full-time and part-time faculty members. Two independent samples of 50 students each were randomly drawn from the population of 637…

To strengthen its traditional professional development, which relies on off-campus experts, McLennen Community College (MCC) in Waco, Texas, has developed a popular and effective in-house system. Faculty members who are experts in their own fields serve as resource leaders in faculty development opportunities for salary step-credit and in…

This research brief provides information about faculty salaries and employment at North Carolina community colleges. Faculty are employees of the local community college whose salaries are funded primarily from State allocations. Salaries are affected by many factors, including the local labor market, local personnel policies, work assignments,…

This paper reports on a study of part-time faculty at Queensland University of Technology (Australia) which examined concerns and issues facing part-time academic staff, and led to a collaborative and dialectic process for implementing faculty-led changes. The first phase of the project involved: (1)data collection on about 800 individuals,…

Part-time faculty employment has increased by roughly double over the last twenty years, with temporary faculty especially prevalent in English, history, modern language, and mathematics. Women hold 47 percent of part-time positions. This paper charges that the growing use of part-time and nontenure-track faculty is linked to a national crisis in…

The higher education system is seen as having deteriorated in the 1970s due to change in academic schedules, increased size of institutions, impaired effectiveness of faculties, inability of institutions to adjust to increased percentage of disadvantaged students, increase in part-time and nonresidential students, and excessive market orientation…

The data results and the findings on tenure for all of the four major Carnegie Classifications of institutions combined are summarized. Data on current tenure policies and practices are reported from 42 percent of the institutions participating in a College and University Personnel Association study. (MLW)

Data on current tenure policies and practices at comprehensive universities and colleges are reported and analyzed, including information on: governance roles in the tenuring process; relationship of tenure to funding sources; relationships of faculty ranks and tenure; and the relationship of tenure and promotion decisions. (MLW)

Characteristics of and concerns about employment of part-time college faculty are outlined, including increasing use of part-time teachers, tenure, employment security, part-time faculty role in governance, and compensation and fringe benefits. AAUP policy proposals are made reflecting concern about exploitation of part-time faculty and…

Recognizes the benefits and problems of the utilization of part-time instructors. Considers recruitment, orientation and training, accessibility, supervision and communication, evaluation, and consideration of faculty needs as issues of importance in part-time instructor management. (AYC)