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The Growing Use of Part-Time Faculty: Understanding Causes and Effects
Leslie, David W., editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
1998
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Part-time and temporary faculty now constitute a majority of all those teaching in colleges and universities. This volume presents analyses of the changes in academic work, in faculty careers, and in the economic conditions in higher education that are associated with the shift away from full-time academic jobs. Issues for research, policy, and practice are discussed.

The chapters in this volume were originally prepared...

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Success Strategies for Adjunct Faculty
Lyons, Richard E.
Pearson Education, Boston, MA
2004
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Success Strategies for Adjunct Faculty provides adjunct instructors with a multi-faceted toolkit for increasing both effectiveness and efficiency in today's college courses and enhances their opportunities for success.

Building upon the research and strategies recommended in The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Success, Dr. Lyons leverages his subsequent workshop experiences throughout North America as well as focused research....

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Exploring The Role of Contingent Instructional Staff in Undergraduate Learning
Benjamin, Ernst, editor
Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
2003
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The majority of undergraduate instructors hold contingent appointments, a term used here to include not only the non-tenure-track part-time faculty but also many instructional staff who lack faculty status, an increasing proportion of full-time non-tenure track faculty, and a substantial number of graduate student teaching assistants. This volume seeks to foster a dialogue, long overdue, between those who believe that the academy...

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Connecting Non Full-time Faculty to Institutional Mission: A Guidebook for College/University Administrators & Faculty Developers
Baron-Nixon, Leora
Stylus, Sterling, VA
2007
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Adjuncts have become the lifeline of a vast majority of colleges and universities. They teach many of the foundation and core courses taken by first and second year students, they teach professional courses in which their own life experiences are invaluable, and they step in on short notice to fill in for regular faculty engaged in research or away on sabbaticals.

A survey of over 4,000 institutions conducted by the...

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Best Practices for Supporting Adjunct Faculty
Lyons, Richard E., Editor
Anker Publishing Company, Inc., Bolton, MA
2007
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The number of part-time faculty members is increasing steadily, to the point that most colleges and universities could not function efficiently without them. The evening and weekend availability of adjunct faculty enables us to expand class schedules to serve the educational needs of nontraditional students, and their expertise offers students important real-world perspectives.Yet there is often a lack of preparation or support...

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