Changing faculty trends, adjunct faculty, The Delphi Project
Two awards of $15,000 each recognize noteworthy efforts to support non-tenure-track faculty. The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the USC Rossier School of Education today opened applications for the 2019 Delphi Award. The $15,000 cash award is given annually to two individuals or groups who have worked to support adjunct, contingent and non-tenure-track faculty in promoting student success. “Although non-tenure-track faculty […]
Harper College and California State University, Dominguez Hills detail the paths they took to improve working conditions and professional development for adjunct faculty on their campuses. Better opportunities for professional development. Equitable compensation. An inclusive campus culture. These are among the much-needed changes non-tenure-track faculty have called for on many college and university campuses. To help these institutions forge their paths […]
A new guide by Daniel Scott and Adrianna Kezar details ways student affairs departments and non-tenure-track faculty can collaborate. Student affairs departments and faculty share an important goal: to support the success and engagement of their students. Yet while these two groups rely on each other for resources, skills and expertise, collaboration between them has become more challenging in the […]
In a Q&A about strategies for better assessment of online courses in Inside Higher Ed, Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted about faculty development for adjunct instructors: As Adrianna Kezar has written, faculty development can go a long way to eliminating the worst aspects of the growing adjunct situation, but it cannot resolve the long-term structural issues, and this needs to be […]
Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted in Inside Higher Ed about the growing numbers of non-tenure-track faculty at colleges and universities: Some 73 percent of all faculty positions are off the tenure track, according to a new analysis of federal databy the American Association of University Professors. “For the most part, these are insecure, unsupported positions with little job security and few protections for academic […]
Pullias co-director William G. Tierney was quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the status of and career prospects for visiting assistant professors: Visiting positions take a variety of forms, says William G. Tierney, a professor of higher education at the University of Southern California. When he pictures a beneficial visiting position, Tierney thinks of his experiences in visiting fellowships overseas, […]
Two new studies address the challenges faced by growing numbers of contingent faculty. They go by many titles. Adjunct professor, postdoctoral fellow, assistant lecturer, part-time instructor, researcher — The list goes on. All these titles make it difficult to gather comprehensive data about faculty, which in turn makes it difficult to see, let alone address, the challenges many of these […]
An Award to Propel Action: The Delphi Project Offers a $15K Incentive to Inspire and Support Reform of Contingent Faculty Working Conditions Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar was interviewed about the Delphi Project for Changing Faculty and Student Success and the project’s recently announced $15,000 Delphi Award. The Q&A was published in Majority Rule, the official blog of the New Faculty Majority, […]
This blog post, authored by Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar and research assistant Daniel Scott, was originally published in Higher Education Today, a blog by American Council on Education, April 18, 2018. As college and university presidents face a plethora of challenges, the need to address contingent faculty roles and related work policies is growing in urgency. The shift to non-tenure-track […]
Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar and research assistant Daniel Scott announced The Delphi Award on the American Council on Education’s Higher Education Today blog on April 5, 2018. Part of The Delphi Project on Changing Faculty and Student Success, the Delphi Award is designed to recognize campuses that have made changes to their policies and practices for college instruction, particularly […]