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Departmental Cultures and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty: A Self-Assessment Tool for Departments

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2015) This self-assessment tool is a detailed survey that can be used by colleges and universities to get direct, actionable feedback from non-tenure-track faculty. The survey, which can be administered by campus leaders, department chairs, union leaders or even by non-tenure-track faculty groups themselves, can be used to assess existing departmental […]

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

Contingent Commitments: Bringing Part-Time Faculty Into Focus

Center for Community College Student Engagement (2014) This resource CCCSE reviews important non-tenure-track faculty issues as they pertain to community colleges, including a discussion guide that helps community college leaders and practitioners to consider conditions on campus and how they affect the work of faculty members. There is also a stand-alone discussion guide, which is also linked below. Categories: Delphi Project, […]

The Imperative for Change: Fostering Understanding of the Necessity of Changing Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Policies and Practices

Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey, Lara Badke (2014) This summary outlines the necessity for addressing the changing faculty and its implications for student learning outcomes, equity, and institutional risk management. It aims to build an understanding of the implications of the current faculty model and policies and practices affecting non-tenure-track faculty, as well as to facilitate a conversation about change that […]

The Just-In-Time Professor: A Staff Report Summarizing eForum Responses on the Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education

House Committee on Education, The Workforce Democratic Staff (2014) This report summarizes the responses from a 2013 survey about the working conditions of contingent faculty and instructors, how those conditions affect their ability to earn a living and have a successful career, and how those conditions may affect students and their attainment of educational goals–providing a snapshot of life as […]

An Examination of the Changing Faculty: Ensuring Institutional Quality and Achieving Desired Student Learning Outcomes

Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey, Judith Eaton (2014) This joint paper by the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty for Student Success and Council for Higher Education Accreditation explores the changing faculty, implications for student learning and accreditation, and makes recommendations for how accrediting organizations can help to address challenges arising from growing contingency in higher education. Categories: Delphi Project, Student […]

Non-Tenure-Track Faculty on our Campus: Supplemental Focus Guide for Centers for Teaching and Learning

Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey (2013) This focus guide has been created for centers for teaching and learning and other offices that provide academic support and development opportunities for faculty on campuses. These offices are an important resource for enhancing the quality of instruction and student learning. Exploring how services and programming are made available to or utilized by non-tenure-track faculty, […]

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 […]

Faculty Matter: Selected Research on Connections between Faculty-Student Interaction and Student Success

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2013) This bibliography includes summaries of a sample of selected studies that describe the importance of faculty-student interactions for facilitating positive student outcomes. Categories: Delphi Project, Student Success

Selected Research on Connections between Non-Tenure-Track Faculty and Student Learning (2013)

NOTE: An updated version of this document exists here. Created as part of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, the annotated bibliography is designed to highlight correlations between the working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty and the outcomes and experiences of their students. Categories: Delphi Project, Student Success