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Case Studies Highlight 2022 Delphi-Award Winning Programs to Support Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

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Dominican University of California and Montgomery College, winners of the 2022 Delphi Award, detail their programs designed to support adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty in new case studies. New publications that detail the Delphi Award-winning programs created and implemented by Dominican University of California (Dominican) and Montgomery College (MC) are now available for free download on the Pullias Center’s website. Titled […]

Systemic Improvement for Teaching Faculty and Expansion of Tenure for Teaching at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Delphi Award Winner, 2021 Jordan Harper, Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) In 2012, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), a private research university in Massachusetts, made systemic change to better respect, recognize and support faculty off the tenure track. Motivated by the realization that teaching faculty and other contingent faculty were becoming more numerous at and more critical to […]

Institutionalizing a Culture of Respect for Teaching and Professional Faculty at the University of Denver

Delphi Award Winner, 2021 Jordan Harper, Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) In 2015, the Board of Trustees at the University of Denver approved a new Advancement, Promotion and Tenure document developed by the Faculty Senate and approved by the Board of Trustees. This document created a new line of full time non-tenure-track full-time faculty, which DU refers […]

Creating and Sustaining the Inclusive Teaching Program for Lecturers at the University of Michigan

Delphi Award Finalist, 2021 Jordan Harper, Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) The University of Michigan (UM), a unionized, public four-year university, quickly realized that most lecturers teach entry- level and foundational courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in their disciplines. This realization, along with the launch of a multi-year Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategic […]

Improving the Quality of Term Faculty Careers at George Mason University

Applicant for the Delphi Award, 2021 Jordan Harper Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021) George Mason sought to create an institutional culture in which non-tenure-track faculty (known as “term faculty” at George Mason) are viewed as valuable and the term faculty career path as both productive and rewarding. Through a partnership between the University’s Faculty Senate and the Office of […]

Making Maryville University the Adjunct Destination

Applicant for the Delphi Award, 2020 Jordan Harper Pullias Center for Higher Education (2020) Since its inception in 1872, teaching has been and continues to be a top priority at Maryville University. In 2015, key stakeholders at the university designed a strategic plan titled, “A New Century of Higher Education: Maryville 2022” that uses four pillars to frame future initiatives and […]

Steady Lines of Communication, Representation and Support for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty at Washington University in St. Louis

Applicant for the Delphi Award, 2020 Jennifer Yeh, Jordan Harper Pullias Center for Higher Education (2020) The Association for Teaching Research and Practice (ATRaP) at Washington University in St. Louis was created to support full-time non-tenure-track faculty (FTNTTF) and encourage the institution’s administration to establish a steady line of communication with NTTF. The achievements and institutionalization of ATRaP as an official […]

Advocacy and Equal Access Opportunities for Non-Tenure Track Faculty at Middlesex Community College

Applicant for the Delphi Award, 2020 Jennifer Yeh, Jordan Harper Pullias Center for Higher Education (2020) Middlesex Community College (MCC) recognizes that student achievement is intertwined with faculty success, which of course includes adjunct faculty. MCC has a history of including non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) in consideration of past initiatives, such as opening the availability of some Professional Development (PD), workshops […]

Nurturing the ‘SOUL’ of Adjuncts at The American Womens’ College at Bay Path University

Delphi Award Finalist, 2020 Jordan Harper, Adrianna Kezar In 2013, Bay Path University launched The American Women’s College (TAWC) to deploy the Social Online Universal Learning (SOUL) model for delivering accelerated online baccalaureate degree programs exclusively for women, the first of its kind in the nation. The SOUL model was designed to improve student learning by offering wrap-around supports and […]

Expanding Opportunities and Community for Non- Tenure-Track Faculty at Washtenaw Community College

Applicant for the Delphi Award, 2019 Jennifer Yeh, Jordan Harper Pullias Center for Higher Education (2019) Washtenaw Community College (WCC) is located in southeast Michigan and enrolls around 18,000 students per year. The Part-Time & Adjunct Faculty Institute (PTFI) serves roughly 750 non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) at WCC. Although WCC has a history of supporting NTTF, part-time faculty still lacked opportunities […]