Center for Community College Student Engagement (2014) This resource CCCSE reviews important non-tenure-track faculty issues as they pertain to community colleges, including a discussion guide that helps community college leaders and practitioners to consider conditions on campus and how they affect the work of faculty members. There is also a stand-alone discussion guide, which is also linked below. Categories: Delphi Project, […]
Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey, Lara Badke (2014) This summary outlines the necessity for addressing the changing faculty and its implications for student learning outcomes, equity, and institutional risk management. It aims to build an understanding of the implications of the current faculty model and policies and practices affecting non-tenure-track faculty, as well as to facilitate a conversation about change that […]
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 […]
Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey, Judith Eaton (2014) This joint paper by the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty for Student Success and Council for Higher Education Accreditation explores the changing faculty, implications for student learning and accreditation, and makes recommendations for how accrediting organizations can help to address challenges arising from growing contingency in higher education. Categories: Delphi Project, Student […]
Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey (2013) This focus guide has been created for centers for teaching and learning and other offices that provide academic support and development opportunities for faculty on campuses. These offices are an important resource for enhancing the quality of instruction and student learning. Exploring how services and programming are made available to or utilized by non-tenure-track faculty, […]
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2013) On May 18, 2012, more than 30 participants convened outside Washington, D.C. to discuss the issues faced by non tenure track faculty and to formulate strategies to respond to these challenges in new ways. The two meta–strategies that emerged from the meeting and are captured in this report are […]
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2013) This bibliography includes summaries of a sample of selected studies that describe the importance of faculty-student interactions for facilitating positive student outcomes. Categories: Delphi Project, Student Success
NOTE: An updated version of this document exists here. Created as part of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, the annotated bibliography is designed to highlight correlations between the working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty and the outcomes and experiences of their students. Categories: Delphi Project, Student Success
Elizabeth Holcombe, Adrianna Kezar (2013) In this paper, Holcombe and Kezar examine the mental models of various stakeholder groups around implementing new faculty models, based on an analysis of open-ended responses in a survey study. Categories: Delphi Project
The Public Sociology Association at George Mason University (2013) Adapted from the 2011 Back to School Survey created by the New Faculty Majority Foundation, the Public Sociology Survey has been described as the most comprehensive survey of contingent faculty working conditions to date. This survey instrument was designed to be a web-based survey. Categories: Delphi Project