Changing Faculty Workforce Models

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

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A Model of Consensus Features for New Faculty Roles

Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Scott, Hannah Yang (2017) This infographic shows a model that can guide institutions in guaranteeing that new faculty roles are oriented around the goals of the higher education enterprise while they flesh out the details of what the new faculty will look like in their particular contexts. The 4 themes of influence that must be considered and integrated into […]

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Adapting by Design Toolkit

Daniel Maxey, Adrianna Kezar (2017) Created to support the redesign of higher education models, this toolkit helps campus leaders identify and create an impetus for achieving the changes that are necessary to address changing faculty trends, including the rising numbers of non-tenure-track faculty, at colleges and universities. The goal of this toolkit is to ensure a successful future for our institutions, our […]

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Adapting by Design: Redesigning the Faculty Role Worksheet

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success and Association of American Colleges & Universities (2016) Based on the Delphi Project’s Adapting by Design report (2015), this worksheet is designed to spark conversations among campus stakeholders about potential ways to intentionally and strategically redesign the faculty role on their campus. Categories: Delphi Project

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Rethinking Faculty Models/Roles: An Emerging Consensus about Future Directions for the Professoriate

Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Holcombe, Daniel Maxey (2016) To help campus leaders envision a way forward, the TIAA Institute commissioned research by Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Holcombe, and Daniel Maxey, who surveyed a broad range of hundreds of higher education stakeholders about their views of numerous potential attributes of future faculty models. Their research results are summarized and shared herein. Categories: Delphi Project, […]

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Adapting by Design: Creating Faculty Roles and Defining Faculty Work to Ensure an Intentional Future for Colleges and Universities

Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey (2015) This report is an attempt to create a vision for new, future faculty models both by promoting campus-level change efforts and by initiating a national conversation about our direction as a profession. It follows meetings and discussions with numerous national thought leaders on higher education issues and several years of engaging administration and grassroots leaders […]

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Student Outcomes Assessment Among the New Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Majority

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

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Report on the Project Working Meeting

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 […]

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