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Download full textTJCTA Messenger, 1994
Published four times a year by the Texas Junior College Teachers Association (TJCTA), this newsletter discusses events affecting Texas Junior Colleges and their faculty, chronicles the efforts and activities of the TJCTA, and provides a forum for discourse on topics in community college education. Most of the September 1993 issue is devoted to an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Employment Patterns, Faculty Organizations, Graduate Surveys
Peer reviewedThompson, Karen – Academe, 1992
Issues arising from the increasing use of part-time college faculty as an institutional cost-management strategy are discussed, including implications for faculty joining unions, tenure, governance and administrative hierarchy, faculty workload, quality of education, and public confidence in higher education. The trend is seen as ultimately…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Administration, College Faculty, Costs
Peer reviewedThompson, Karen – Thought and Action, 1992
The process and results of establishing collective bargaining for Rutgers University's (New Jersey) part-time faculty, largely women, are discussed. Negotiations for achievement of parity with full-time faculty through pro rata benefits and salaries, the most contested issue, are described briefly, focusing on administration resistance. (MSE)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Higher Education, Part Time Faculty
Santa Fe Community Coll., NM. – 1989
Developed for faculty employed on a part-time basis at Santa Fe Community College (SFCC), this booklet explains the required and optional activities comprising the college's professional development program. Introductory sections reveal that part-time faculty members are required to participate in a number of professional development activities,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria, Faculty Development, Faculty Evaluation
Huffman, John – 1997
Underlying barriers to adjunct faculty forming effective communities are time and distance; they spend little time on campus, and there is distance, physically and psychologically, from their peers. There can be no hope of challenging and changing the system without the organizing and focusing of energies. Lessons can be learned from big business.…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Change Strategies, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education
Norman, Mary M. – AAHE Bulletin, 1984
Ways in which colleges can meet the needs of part-time faculty are suggested, based upon the experiences of community colleges. Recommendations concern basic needs, orientation, and staff development and evaluation. Advice for institutions includes: establish a salary scale for part-time faculty equal to that for full-time faculty teaching…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employment Practices, Faculty Development, Faculty Evaluation
Jiu, Jilly – American Language Review, 1997
Anecdotal comments by teachers of English as a Second Language at all levels focus on problems in pay equity, working conditions, opportunities for professional development, and part-time teaching assignments. A Washington state survey of adult ESL program administrators echoed many of these problems and also found wide variation in class size.…
Descriptors: Class Size, College Faculty, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Fairweather, James S. – 1992
This report studies the role of teaching in the faculty reward structure by examining the relationship between faculty activities (teaching and instruction, research and scholarship, administration, public service) and compensation. The study examined the implicit emphases given by academic institutions to various faculty activities. The data…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Colleges, Comparative Analysis
American Association of Univ. Professors, Washington, DC. – 1988
This document details the collective bargaining agreement between Hofstra University and the Hofstra Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) for the period September 1, 1988 to August 31, 1991. It presents the following 23 articles: list of definitions; recognition of AAUP; faculty statutes and policy series; general…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Professional Staff Congress of the City Univ. of New York, NY. – 1988
This document presents the agreement between the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York (PSCCUNY) which represents the interests of the CUNY faculty. The agreement, covering the period September 1, 1987 through August 31, 1990, details the following 42 articles: recognition;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
American Association of Univ. Professors, Washington, DC. – 1988
This document presents the agreement between Central State University and the Central State University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) for the period September 1, 1988-August 31, 1991. The contract details the following 48 articles: agreement; agreement construction; recognition of the bargaining unit; AAUP…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
Rider Coll., Trenton, NJ. – 1988
This document presents the agreement between Rider College (New Jersey) and the Rider College Chapter of the American Association of University Professors for 1988 through 1991. It covers the following 35 articles: recognition of unit; non-discrimination; affirmative action; academic freedom; Association privileges; definition of ranks;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Arbitration, Athletic Coaches, Collective Bargaining
