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KC Culver, Adrianna Kezar, and Jennifer Yeh Pullias Center for Higher Education (2022) This toolkit is meant to accompany our report “Designing Accessible and Inclusive Professional Development for NTTF,” which was created as part of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success. In this report, we found that a variety of professional development opportunities are often necessary […]

KC Culver and Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) One of the main lessons from the recent pandemic is the importance of professional development for all faculty. With a post-pandemic context, we are provided an opportunity to address long-standing problems in higher education, problems that are particularly prevalent within STEM education, including that professional development has not been […]

KC Culver, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) This toolkit helps design teams engage in this process of implementing the Design for Equity in Higher Education model,  For each phase of the model, this toolkit provides a short description and offers some questions and suggestions to guide practice. Categories: Delphi Project, Racial Equity, Guides

KC Culver, Jordan Harper, and Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) A customized guide about liberatory design thinking processes that have been tested within college settings to support changes that enhance equity in policies and practices within institutions. This research is based on case studies of several institutions, including focus group interviews with the campus design teams and […]

Daniel Scott, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Adrianna Kezar (2019)   The report explores the issues and trends that have affected faculty in the United States to provide a snapshot from varied sources about the state of the profession. Topics covered include the future job market, faculty accountability policies, shared governance, tenure, unionization, non-tenure track faculty, salaries, and benefits.  The report […]

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success This report is a review of changes in the number and proportions of non-tenure-track faculty as a segment of the professoriate over the past 40 years, including differences by sector and discipline. Categories: Delphi Project

Adrianna Kezar In this TIAA-CREF Insitute paper, Kezar describes the trends that have led to the dramatic change in faculty workforce models and outlines several new models that have emerged. Categories: Delphi Project

American Council on Education’s Presidential Innovation Laboratory (2014) This paper, which is a part of PIL’s Presidential Innovation Paper series, explores current conversations about the changing role of college and university faculty, the so-called “unbundling” or “disaggregation” of the faculty role. The editor acknowledges and thanks Adrianna Kezar, Sean Gehrke, and Daniel Maxey for their contributions toward this paper. Categories: Delphi Project

Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey (2014) This occasional paper published by the National Institution on Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) explores the potential for non-tenure-track faculty to meaningfully contribute to student learning outcomes assessment and outlines policies and practices that can facilitate such contributions. Categories: Delphi Project, Student Success

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 […]