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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 […]

Pullias Center Announces Winners of Delphi Awards

September 11, 2019December 17, 2019 pulliasadmin Awards, Changing faculty, Pullias News adrianna kezar delphi project

Teams from Penn State University and Santa Monica College to be honored for innovative support of adjunct faculty in promoting student success The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education has selected two winners of the Delphi Award for 2019. Collaborative teams from the Penn State University of four year-institutions, and the […]

Supporting and Creating Space for Part-time Faculty at Montgomery College

Delphi Award Finalist, 2019 Jordan Harper, Daniel Scott Pullias Center for Higher Education (2019) Retelling the story of part-time faculty is of paramount importance to Antonio ‘Tango’ Thomas, the Director of the Institute for Part-Time Faculty Engagement & Support at Montgomery College. Seen as an integral part of the college fabric, there is an institutional belief that part-time faculty must have […]

New ‘State of the Faculty’ Report Shines a Light on Faculty Trends and Issues

August 28, 2019December 17, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Publications, Pullias News adrianna kezar delphi project

The “State of the Faculty” report from the Pullias Center for Higher Education is now available. The report’s authors explore the issues and trends that have affected faculty in the United States. The goal of the report is to provide a snapshot from varied sources about the state of the profession. “This report draws from important sources of data, like […]

Addressing the Unique Needs and Challenges for Contingent Faculty at UNC Charlotte

Delphi Award Finalist, 2019 Jordan Harper, Daniel Scott Pullias Center for Higher Education (2019) The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) Center for Teaching and Learning spearheaded a longitudinal, data-driven project to better understand and respond to the needs of non-tenure-track faculty. When the project began in 2014, the study consisted of five phases: contingent faculty needs assessment, […]

Supporting Non-Tenure-Track Faculty and the Art of Teaching Through Association Collaboration

Applicant for the Delphi Award, 2019 Jordan Harper Pullias Center for Higher Education (2019) In 2015, two of philosophy’s largest professional organizations, the American Philosophical Association (APA) and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) collaborated to produce the Teaching Hub, a two-day professional development event to be held at three place-based philosophy convenings (Eastern, Central, and Pacific). The Teaching […]

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

March 27, 2019 pulliasadmin Pullias Voices adrianna kezar delphi project

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 […]

Adrianna Kezar: A Critical time to support non-tenure-track faculty

March 21, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias Voices adrianna kezar delphi project

Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar voices her support for the right of non-tenure-track faculty to collectively bargain. by Adrianna Kezar At the Pullias Center for Higher Education, we firmly believe that public engagement is a responsibility of scholars and part of quality scholarship. With the recent news about the challenges adjunct faculty unions are facing at USC and at other institutions […]

Adrianna Kezar in Inside Higher Ed: How to talk to non-tenure-track faculty

March 21, 2019September 11, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias Voices adrianna kezar delphi project

A recent guest blog post by Paula Patch in Inside Higher Ed featured research on non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty by Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar. Patch writes: First, we have to let NTT faculty tell their own stories in their own words. Sounds easy, but research by Adrianna Kezar and others shows that most studies of NTT faculty are not conducted by NTT faculty themselves. Nor […]

The Delphi Project in Inside Higher Ed: Protecting tenure

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 pulliasadmin Changing faculty, Pullias Voices delphi project

A Pullias Center report titled National Trends for Faculty Composition Over Time, which tracks the growing percentage of non-tenure-track faculty on college and university campuses, was recently featured in an op-ed by Richard A. Greenfield in Inside Higher Ed: The number of tenured and tenure-track faculty members has steadily declined. A 2013 study by the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of […]