Professional Development for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering

Professional Development, 2021

KC Culver and Adrianna Kezar

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021)

The University of Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) was the first teaching center in the United States, founded in 1962. Nearly 52% of the nearly 6,300 instructional staff on the Ann Arbor campus are non-tenure-track faculty, and in 2004, lecturers unionized to gain collective bargaining rights. College administrators recognized a need to better support NTTF. As a result, the college created a Lecturer Advisory Committee and appointed a faculty member to work part time to coordinate lecturer development. The director of lecturer development is now partnering with CRLT-Engin to create professional development events specifically for NTTF.

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