Drawing from national research on the demographics and level of professionalization of faculty at community colleges, this paper suggests ways in which faculty can support and promote the collegiate function of two-year institutions. First, demographic trends with respect to age, teaching load, educational attainment, gender, and ethnicity are…

With an emphasis on humanities instructors, this book presents a profile of the characteristics of the two-year college faculty nationwide. It reviews the current status of the profession and describes the methodology of the 1975 national humanities faculty survey on which the book is based. Additional chapters focus on two-year college teachers'…