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Redesigning teaching evaluations to support professional development for faculty at Harper College

Delphi Award Winner, 2018 Daniel Scott, Adrianna Kezar, Michael Bates Pullias Center for Higher Education (2019) This new publication highlights the recent successful efforts Harper College made to significantly improve their faculty policies and culture. Harper College is one of winners of the inaugural Delphi Award, an annual $15,000 cash award given to individuals or organizations who have worked to support adjunct, […]

How Student Affairs Departments Can Support and Engage Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

Daniel Scott, Adrianna Kezar (2019) This guide, created by The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success in collaboration with NASPA, highlights the many opportunities student affairs departments have to work with non-tenure-track faculty in furthering its student services mission—and, in turn, to support these faculty in their efforts to foster student learning and success. Categories: Delphi Project, […]

Improving and Dedicating Supports for Part-time Faculty at Central Piedmont Community College

Applicant for the Delphi Award, 2018 Jennifer Yeh, Jordan Harper Pullias Center for Higher Education (2019) In an effort to bolster support for part-time faculty, the division director for Central Piedmont Community College’s largest curriculum department connected and collaborated with full-time faculty members. A research-based program proposal was subsequently submitted highlighting five no-to-low cost support priorities to better the experiences […]

National Trends for Faculty Composition Over Time

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success This report is a review of changes in the number and proportions of non-tenure-track faculty as a segment of the professoriate over the past 40 years, including differences by sector and discipline. Categories: Delphi Project

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

Unbundling Versus Designing Faculty Roles

American Council on Education’s Presidential Innovation Laboratory (2014) This paper, which is a part of PIL’s Presidential Innovation Paper series, explores current conversations about the changing role of college and university faculty, the so-called “unbundling” or “disaggregation” of the faculty role. The editor acknowledges and thanks Adrianna Kezar, Sean Gehrke, and Daniel Maxey for their contributions toward this paper. Categories: Delphi Project

Report of the Task Force to Recommend Best Practices for Non-Tenure-Track Instructional Faculty

California State University, Dominguez Hills (2018) This report presents a strong example of a policy-guiding document for campuses considering making changes to support non-tenure-track faculty, or campuses that have already begun. It presents the purpose, methods, process, and results of the task force’s evaluation process. Categories: Delphi Project, Student Success, Policymaking, Guides

Delphi Example Practices Villanova University

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2017) This example practice is intended to cultivate and share knowledge about positive practices that have been implemented on real college and university campuses to provide information to individuals and groups on other campuses that are beginning to consider changes on their own campuses. The example here includes: Collaborative Efforts […]

Delphi Example Practices University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2017) This example practice is intended to cultivate and share knowledge about positive practices that have been implemented on real college and university campuses to provide information to individuals and groups on other campuses that are beginning to consider changes on their own campuses. The example here includes: University of […]

Delphi Example Practices University of California System

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2017) This example practice is intended to cultivate and share knowledge about positive practices that have been implemented on real college and university campuses to provide information to individuals and groups on other campuses that are beginning to consider changes on their own campuses. The example here includes: University Council […]