The Delphi Project in Inside Higher Ed: Who Is Teaching Your Students and How Can You Support Them?

A recent guest blog post by Paula Patch in Inside Higher Ed featured the work of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, a project of the Pullias Center that provides tools and resources to help create new faculty models and better support faculty off the tenure track to enhance higher education institutions.

A better way to understand the number — and type and workload and impact — of non-tenure-stream faculty on your campus is to count them yourself. The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, an initiative of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California, has tools for doing this work. These resources include a self-assessment tool for departments and institutions to get feedback directly from non-tenure track faculty, and guides for understanding the faculty models at your institution, with a focus on non-tenure-track faculty.

The Delphi Project also provides useful terminology for understanding what is meant by non-tenure-track, contingent, and adjunct faculty….

Read the full post at Inside Higher Ed. Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar is the lead researcher for The Delphi Project.