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The Imperative for Change: Fostering Understanding of the Necessity of Changing Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Policies and Practices

Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey, Lara Badke (2014) This summary outlines the necessity for addressing the changing faculty and its implications for student learning outcomes, equity, and institutional risk management. It aims to build an understanding of the implications of the current faculty model and policies and practices affecting non-tenure-track faculty, as well as to facilitate a conversation about change that […]

The Just-In-Time Professor: A Staff Report Summarizing eForum Responses on the Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education

House Committee on Education, The Workforce Democratic Staff (2014) This report summarizes the responses from a 2013 survey about the working conditions of contingent faculty and instructors, how those conditions affect their ability to earn a living and have a successful career, and how those conditions may affect students and their attainment of educational goals–providing a snapshot of life as […]

Report on the Project Working Meeting

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2013) On May 18, 2012, more than 30 participants convened outside Washington, D.C. to discuss the issues faced by non tenure track faculty and to formulate strategies to respond to these challenges in new ways. The two meta–strategies that emerged from the meeting and are captured in this report are […]

The Changing Faculty and Student Success: Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Promising Practices

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2013) This document represents a sample of reforms and practices implemented at institutions in response to the growing proportion of non-tenure-track faculty on campuses. Categories: Delphi Project

The Path to Change: How Campus Communities Worked to Change Non-Tenure-Track Policies and Practices

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2013) A collection of documents describing how several campuses have already initiated a dialogue about non-tenure-track faculty practices and how different groups on each campus worked together to implement changes. This collection includes: California State University, Pomona; Madison Area Technical College; Mountain College (a pseudonym, but represents an actual institution); San […]

Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in our Department: A Guide for Departments and Academic Programs to Better Understand Faculty Working Conditions and the Necessity of Change

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2012) This guide is designed for use by faculty and staff at the department level who would like to examine non-tenure-track faculty practices and issues. Its question sections, discussion questions, and concluding questions guide practitioners through the process of examining non-tenure-track faculty issues in the department and help them to […]

Non-Tenure-Track Faculty on our Campus: A Guide for Campus Task Forces to Better Understand Faculty Working Conditions and the Necessity of Change

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2012) This guide is designed for use by task forces, committees, or groups who would like to examine non-tenure-track faculty practices and issues at the campus level. Its question sections, discussion questions, and concluding questions guide practitioners through the process of examining non-tenure-track faculty issues on campus and help them […]

Report of Findings from Values, Practices, and Faculty Hiring Decisions of Academic Leaders Study for ACAD Leadership

Adrianna Kezar, Sean Gehrke (2012) The findings of this study are based on the following topical areas of the survey: faculty composition, faculty hiring practices, gathering data related to faculty hiring, policies regarding non-tenure-track faculty, institutional demographics, and individual demographics. Within each section Kezar and Gehrke provide tables with frequencies and descriptive statistics for each question and a brief review […]

Report of Findings from Values, Practices, and Faculty Hiring Decisions of Academic Leaders Study for CCAS Leadership

Adrianna Kezar, Sean Gehrke (2012) The findings of this study are based on the following topical areas of the survey: faculty composition, faculty hiring practices, gathering data related to faculty hiring, policies regarding non-tenure-track faculty, institutional demographics, and individual demographics. Within each section Kezar and Gehrke provide tables with frequencies and descriptive statistics for each question and a brief review […]