Higher education has become structurally dependent on part-time faculty. Over the last two decades, the percentage of teaching done by part-time faculty has increased to approximately 45 percent. In 1992, in all fifty states, the part-time faculty cohort equaled 55 to 65 percent of all community col
Adjunct faculty and the continuing quest for quality
β Scribed by Donald W. Green
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 2007
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0194-3081
- DOI
- 10.1002/cc.302
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
This chapter addresses the use of adjunct faculty in community colleges. It examines issues of finding, hiring, orienting, evaluating, and developing adjuncts and stresses critical areas of ensuring quality and maintaining institutional standards.
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