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Jennifer Danley-Scott Deborah Tompsett-Makin 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(1):64-67
Part-time faculty need to be brought into the student learning outcomes assessment loop not only to help accreditation, but because they, like full-time faculty, can benefit from assessment. When part-time faculty are not participating in assessment, a sizable percentage of courses are being less effectively taught than they could be. In an attempt to increase part-time faculty in discipline-level assessment at Norco College, we experimented with several assessments that required varied levels of effort by part-time faculty. This piece discusses our experience. We found that peer mentoring and communication were better predictors of part-time faculty participation than stipends, adaptable assessment prompts, or administrative pressure. 相似文献
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Over the past several decades, one of the most significant changes in the delivery of postsecondary education involves the
dramatic increase in the use of contingent or part-time faculty. Although the increased use of part-time faculty within higher
education makes sense from an administrative point of view, its use does not come without criticism. With community colleges
representing a more convenient, affordable, and flexible educational option for a number of students, particularly those from
disadvantaged backgrounds, examining how exposure to part-time faculty relates to students’ academic goals represents an important
area of inquiry. This study draws from social and human capital frameworks and uses hierarchical generalized linear modeling
(HGLM) to examine how exposure to part-time faculty relates to community college students’ likelihood of transferring to a
four-year college or university. Findings suggest that students tend to be significantly less likely to transfer as their
exposure to part-time faculty increases. 相似文献
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We examine the variation in employment levels of part-time faculty, full-time teaching faculty, and full-time professorial faculty across 4-year colleges and universities in the United States. Employment structures and practices in higher education institutions are determined by a variety of economic and institutional factors. For example, a 1% increase in the average salaries paid to professorial faculty increases the employment level of part-time faculty by 0.845%. A 1% increase in the average salaries paid to full-time teaching faculty reduces the employment level of full-time teaching faculty by 0.757%. Institutions located in large cities or suburban areas hire 31.3% more part-time faculty but 12.5% fewer full-time teaching faculty. Private institutions hire more part-time faculty than their public counterparts. A 10% increase in FTE student enrollment is associated with a 5.4% increase in the number of part-time faculty, a 10.1% increase in the number of full-time teaching faculty, and a 9.1% increase in professorial faculty. In addition, we find divergent patterns of temporal variability among these three types of faculty. While employment levels of full-time instructors and professorial faculty are rather consistent over time, there is a wide range of fluctuation in the employment of part-time faculty. Finally, the employment of part-time faculty is significantly affected by that of full-time teaching faculty. There is no substitution effect on the employment of professorial faculty. 相似文献
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Melissa B. Jackowski Duane Akroyd 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(8):624-644
Community colleges are increasing their use of part-time faculty who are taking a leading role in utilizing technology for instructional purposes. Part-time faculty are less likely than their full-time counterparts to use technology for instructional purposes and are less likely to teach non-face-to-face classes. For community colleges to be successful in expanding technology-based education, they must promote technology use by all faculty. This quantitative, national study reports factors found to predict faculty use of technology for instructional purposes. 相似文献
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Molly C. Ott Lindsey K. Dippold 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2018,42(3):190-203
Recent research suggests at least half of community college faculty who are teaching part-time would rather have a full-time appointment (Cashwell, 2009; Kramer, Gloeckner, & Jacoby, 2014). Little is known, however, about what distinguishes those voluntarily teaching part-time from those preferring a full-time faculty position. This inquiry draws from person-job fit theory to investigate adjunct faculty members’ abilities and qualifications, as well as their needs from the job itself (Edwards, 1994). Participants were 1,245 adjunct faculty teaching in 10 community colleges during the spring 2016 term. Two thirds of the participants were at least somewhat interested in becoming full-time faculty at a postsecondary institution, with 47% expressing strong, immediate interest in such a position. An ordered logistic regression model indicated that several dimensions of qualifications, job experiences, and socio-demographics predicted employment preference. Part-time faculty with higher levels of recent teaching experience in the community college setting were more likely to express a strong desire for a full-time position, as were adjuncts who utilized more job-related resources. Those who viewed the recognition and rewards given for adjunct job performance as adequate tended to be content in a part-time role. In terms of demographic characteristics, involuntarily part-time faculty were more likely to indicate economic need and self-identify as African American or Hispanic. The findings illustrate how careful attention to the distinctive backgrounds, experiences, and attitudes of part-time faculty subgroups may help college and university administrators more intentionally design policies and programs to better meet the needs of their increasingly diverse constituents. 相似文献
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美国高校大规模使用兼职教师之状况分析 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
兼职教师在美国高校里已经是一个具有相当规模的群体。财政危机是美国高校大量使用兼职教师的首要原因，管理灵活性的需要以及一些课程实践经验的需要是使用兼职教师的另外两个原因。随着兼职教师的大量使用，一些问题也浮出水面：兼职教师待遇的公平性、兼职教师的教学质量以及兼职教师的大量使用对高校教师职业的影响。 相似文献
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Part-time faculty can make substantial contributions to institutions because they represent a flexible resource that allows the institution to respond more effectively to the environment. An area of concern is whether the part-time status imparts a level of commitment to teaching that undermines educational quality. This study examines one component of part-time faculty's teaching commitment by considering their efforts toward the practice of developmental advising. 相似文献
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Are all part-time faculty underemployed? The influence of faculty status preference on satisfaction and commitment 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Utilizing a person–job fit perspective, we examined the job satisfaction and affective commitment of three groups of college
faculty (N = 167): full-time faculty, part-time faculty preferring a part-time position (voluntary part-time), and part-time faculty
preferring a full-time position (involuntary part-time). Involuntary part-time faculty were least satisfied with salient facets
of satisfaction (advancement, compensation, and job security), whereas voluntary part-time faculty and full-time faculty reported
similar levels of satisfaction on these facets. No consistent differences in satisfaction by faculty status were found for
the majority of the other, less salient facets. The three groups of faculty also reported similar levels of perceived overqualification
and affective commitment to the organization. Future directions for research and practice are discussed. 相似文献
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Myron L. Pope Michael T. Miller 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(9-10):745-757
ABSTRACT Traditionally, faculty members who expected to become presidents ascended through the typical labor chain to that position. However, questions are prevalent about whether these individuals gain the managerial experience needed to succeed in a presidency. Unlike the private business management model that has been successful in developing leaders in that arena, community colleges have not provided such formal training to former faculty members who are well-versed in their field and academic-related issues, but lack formal managerial skills development. One area where such training may be achieved is through the development of the leaders of faculty senate bodies. Faculty senate bodies provide their leaders with an opportunity to provide a voice in the campus decision-making process and, potentially, may present an opportunity for more formal training for those interested in the presidency. Further analysis of the perceived skills of these leaders is an important step in addressing this need. The purpose of this study was to identify areas of common thinking among community college presidents and faculty senate leaders about the importance of certain experiences and beliefs needed by effective community college presidents, and the extent that they can be learned by service on the faculty senate. 相似文献
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开放大学功能的发挥离不开兼职教师队伍,本文立足开放性的内涵,提出开放大学兼职教师队伍新型建设观。文章根据开放教育的特点和现实状况,对开放大学兼职教师队伍群体角色进行五维转型定位,提出建设五型兼职教师的概念;同时聚焦政策性、使用性和情感性开发,探讨开放大学兼职教师队伍转型发展的路径。 相似文献
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Reviewed by Trudy H. Bers 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(7):579-582
Scholarship matters. It allows faculty to fulfill the responsibilities of their three academic citizenships--in their institutions, in their disciplines, and in higher education in general. Current standards for community college faculty scholarship, however, have excluded faculty from exercising academic citizenship outside of their institutions. The sector claim to a unique teaching mission has been used to exempt or exclude community college faculty from the scholarly obligations and responsibilities understood elsewhere in higher education. The absence of generally accepted norms for scholarly production and validation at most community colleges continues to set them apart from other institutions, including those also serving non-traditional open admissions students. By discouraging externally validated scholarship, community colleges deny their faculty an appropriate voice in higher education and deny the rest of higher education the important voice of community college faculty. By encouraging scholarship that meets the tests of external scrutiny, community colleges can provide their faculty with legitimate higher education citizenship beyond the institution. 相似文献
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本文试图从社区学院兼职教师的规模、年龄结构、学历、职称、教学质量、工作满意度、收入、地位以及归属感出发,对社区学院兼职教师特点做比较全面、系统的分析,使人们加深对社区学院兼职教师的认识和了解,并从中获取某些有益启示。 相似文献
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基于外聘教师对高职院校教育质量和组织发展的意义,针对当前外聘教师队伍建设中存在的问题,指出促进外聘教师的专业发展是有效解决问题的关键。围绕外聘教师的专业发展内涵及内容,探讨促进外聘教师专业发展的途径。 相似文献
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Dr. Malcolm A. Lowther Joan S. Stark Michele L. Genthon Richard J. Bentley 《Research in higher education》1990,31(6):495-517
Using data from a nationally representative survey of faculty teaching introductory college courses, this exploratory study compares course planning procedures of full-time and part-time faculty teaching courses in eight academic fields. The choice of variables examined was guided by a general model of course design developed from earlier studies of course planning. To control for discipline-related differences in faculty planning assumptions, separate analyses were conducted for the eight fields. No key differences were found between full-time and part-time faculty on the primary factors under investigation: substantive content-related influences on courses, strength of influence within the instructional environment, and planning steps and content arrangements faculty preferred. 相似文献
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Gregory S. Rogers 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(7):673-684
With the Completion Agenda taking such political prominence, community colleges are experiencing even more pressure to find ways to promote and improve student success. One way that has been suggested is to limit the reliance on part-time faculty under the premise that the employment status of faculty has a direct influence on student success. The tacit assumption is that full-time faculty are more engaged with their home institution, and this engagement translates into the engagement of the students taught. The present study examined employment status of faculty on the success of students enrolled in four, two-course sequences. Using Pearson chi-square and binary logistic regression analyses, it was concluded that employment status of the faculty has no statistical influence on student success as has been previously claimed. These results suggest that community colleges should not assume that hiring more full-time faculty will improve student success and, instead, should possibly consider utilizing funds otherwise allocated to hiring new full-time faculty on the development and compensation of part-time faculty. 相似文献
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Marcia A. Shobe Yvette Murphy-Erby Jared Sparks 《Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning》2013,21(5):446-460
Social work faculty experience increasing demands to develop and maintain a research portfolio that includes external funding and publications. Given the increase in research expectations, more part-time instructors are needed to teach courses. In addition to the literature review, we briefly describe a pilot part-time faculty mentorship project developed by our school to build a strong, connected, and consistent part-time faculty team. However, we also wanted to examine mentorship programs at other schools/departments of social work; as a result, we conducted an exploratory research study with social work deans and directors nationwide. Findings suggested that while schools of social work are more likely to employ greater numbers of faculty overall, departments tend to have higher teaching expectations for full-time tenure-track faculty. Despite variability among responses, most schools and departments provide some form of support to part-time faculty members; a lack of resources was given as the primary reason for limited mentorship activities. 相似文献
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医学院校在国家发展建设中担负着培养医学人才的光荣使命.其中教师在医学培养中起着举足轻重的作用,兼职班主任作为高校教师队伍中的重要一员,也发挥着不容忽视的作用.应提高对兼职班主任队伍管理的重视,充分发挥兼职班主任在人才培养方面的优势,使其成为大学生健康成长过程中的指导者和引路人;基于此,从一名临床医师担任医学院校兼职班主... 相似文献
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本文界定了高校教师兼职行为及其表现类型,进而分析了高校教师兼职的行为动机、相关组织为兼职提供的运行机制、以及兼职的外部环境,并认为,高校教师兼职行为在本质上是一种人力资源重新优化和配置的过程,是无需禁止的一种行为,但需要引导和规范。 相似文献
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Planning introductory college courses: Content, context and form 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Joan S. Stark 《Instructional Science》2000,28(5):413-438
Course planning is an important faculty role requiring expertise and effective decision-making. Despite the centrality of planning activities in the teaching-learning process, relatively little research has explored the process by which instructors in higher education plan their classes. Thus, the author and colleagues pursued a three-year series of studies of college instructors in the US who were teaching introductory classes. The study explored faculty members' underlying assumptions about planning and their decision-making processes. This chapter summarizes these empirical studies that inform us about the general and discipline-specific purposes faculty express for their classes, the contextual influences that modify their intentions, and the way they arrange discipline content for teaching. A key finding was that differences in course planning reflect varied assumptions about students and about their discipline that faculty in different fields bring to the planning process and which strongly influence them. 相似文献
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Julie BoarerPitchford 《Community College Journal of Research & Practice》2013,37(12):1067-1082
Critical thinking is an important outcome of a college education. Assessment techniques that require students to demonstrate their understanding of course concepts are referred to as authentic assessment and promote the development of critical thinking. Little research exists on the types of assessment and grading practices utilized by community college instructors. This research examined the incidence and nature of various assessment practices used by community college faculty for basing the course grade. In addition, the study also examined the percentage of course grades that was based on traditional and authentic assessment and factors that may influence the use of assessment techniques. To facilitate the study, an online survey instrument was used to obtain data from faculty employed at two community colleges in California. Study results revealed that a variety of assessment practices are used by community college instructors with differences in relation to faculty status, level of academic achievement, online teaching status, and years of teaching experience. In addition, findings indicate that faculty primarily use authentic assessment in basing the course grade as compared to objective or traditional assessment—suggesting that they are using assessment techniques that promote critical thinking. A significant finding was that part-time faculty emphasize objective exams, attendance, and homework whereas full-time faculty emphasize research projects and learning journals. Findings suggest that professional development may be warranted for faculty by faculty status. 相似文献