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Direct linkCarney, Karen Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Consumer demands and annual budgetary inconsistencies have caused today's postsecondary academic landscape to continuously shift and change. Challenges to remain competitive or simply survive impact postsecondary institutions at their most fundamental level: those who are teaching the core curricula. Within the discipline of English, lecturers…
Descriptors: College Faculty, English Teachers, Undergraduate Study, Lecture Method
Download full textMoore, Linda B. – 1997
In a personal narrative reflecting on 27 years of teaching, an adjunct faculty member realizes that she knows quite a bit firsthand about the adjunct. Judith Gappa and David Leslie, in their 1993 book, "The Invisible Faculty," state that budgets are balanced and classes assigned on the assumption that 20 to 50% of all undergraduate…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, English Departments, Higher Education, Nontenured Faculty
Short-Term Secondments: An Examination of the Experience of an Occupational Transition in Education.
McMichael, Paquita; And Others – 1992
This project explored the activities and attitudes of Scottish teachers (N=50) on secondment to a variety of different bodies. The term "secondment" refers to the short-term assignment of a professional person from one institution to another, involving new forms of accountability and professional commitment. Three types of secondments…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Attitudes, Employment Opportunities, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedFlynn, Elizabeth A.; And Others – Academe, 1986
Two part-time faculty members and two full-time faculty members express their personal and professional concerns and attitudes about the trend toward increased and prolonged use of temporary and part-time faculty employment by institutions. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employment Practices, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHauff, Elaine M.; Berdie, Douglas R. – Thought and Action, 1989
Because part-time faculty play an important role in Minnesota, a study to learn about part-timer concerns, their areas of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, and the actions that would improve their situation was funded. The survey results are presented in six subsections. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Part Time Employment, Part Time Faculty
Peer reviewedKnutson, Peter – Academe, 1995
An anthropologist seeking academic employment reflects on the plight of young, underemployed, often temporary faculty in a difficult job market. Conflicts between expectations and the reality of the stratified academic culture are highlighted. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Competition, Employment Patterns, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBleau, Barbara Lee – Research in Higher Education, 1985
A version of the academic flow model analyzed the quantitative effects on faculty composition, compensation, and turnover of implementing seven options. The options were early retirement, change in the probationary period, increased proportions of part-time faculty, unlimited renewable appointments, and nonrenewable fixed-term appointments, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Contracts, Educational Research, Employment Practices
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