Jordan Harper & Adrianna Kezar (2020) Created as part of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, this guide is designed for student activists at the undergraduate and graduate level looking to support Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in higher education. These students are in a unique position to make a difference in the lives of faculty currently experiencing […]
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 […]
Delphi Award Winner, 2019 Jordan Harper, Daniel Scott, and Adrianna Kezar (2019) This publication highlights the successful efforts by Santa Monica College to significantly improve their faculty policies and culture. SMC is one of winners of the 2019 Delphi Award, an annual $15,000 cash award given to individuals or organizations who have worked to support adjunct, contingent, and non-tenure-track faculty […]
Delphi Award Winner, 2019 Jordan Harper, Daniel Scott, Adrianna Kezar Pullias Center for Higher Education (2019) This publication highlights the successful efforts Penn State University to significantly improve their faculty policies and culture. PSU is one of winners of the 2019 Delphi Award, an annual $15,000 cash award given to individuals or organizations who have worked to support adjunct, contingent, […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is little notice of or conversation about the significant – perhaps catastrophic — employment changes taking place at colleges and universities. After decades of ignoring the adjunctification of faculty, we now see the transformation of almost every employment category in higher education – graduate students, postdocs, research faculty, and staff. These groups are being outsourced, facing contingency and marginalization, just […]
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 […]
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, […]
Delphi Award Winner, 2018 Daniel Scott, Adrianna Kezar, Kirti Celly, Pamela Robinson Pullias Center for Higher Education (2019) This new publication highlights the recent successful efforts California State University, Dominguez Hills made to significantly improve their faculty policies and culture. CSUDH is one of winners of the inaugural Delphi Award, an annual $15,000 cash award given to individuals or organizations who have […]