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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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Dispelling the Myths: Locating the Resources Needed to Support Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Maxey (2013) This resource outlines potential changes that could be made to improve support for non-tenure-track faculty on campuses, organized in terms of those that would be less expensive to implement or would likely require the reallocation of funding or increased expenditures. It also provides a set of strategies for developing services and resources to support the […]

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