Part-Time, Adjunct, and Temporary Faculty: The New Majority? [electronic resource] : Report of the Sloan Conference on Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty (Arlington, VA, December 2-3, 1997) / David W. Leslie.
This report examines the changes, and the potential consequences of those changes, in the employment patterns of American academics, focusing specifically on the use of short-term and temporary instructors by postsecondary institutions. Following a brief introduction, the report describes shifts in...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Part-Time, Adjunct, and Temporary Faculty: The New Majority? |h [electronic resource] : |b Report of the Sloan Conference on Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty (Arlington, VA, December 2-3, 1997) / |c David W. Leslie. |
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| 520 | |a This report examines the changes, and the potential consequences of those changes, in the employment patterns of American academics, focusing specifically on the use of short-term and temporary instructors by postsecondary institutions. Following a brief introduction, the report describes shifts in hiring patterns of postsecondary institutions, noting that 41.6 percent of all faculty at such institutions are now part-time. The next section details the differences between part- and full-time faculty, using economic and demographic data from the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. The causes of the dramatic increase in part-time faculty are examined, and it is suggested that the expansion of community college programs has been the main contributing factor--although no one single factor explains the shift. The effects that the increased reliance on part-time instruction have had on the quality of education is described in the subsequent section, followed by a discussion of the attitudes of part-time faculty toward their work. The final sections of the report examine how the shift to part-time instructors has created changes in the nature of the academic profession that may be impacting the integrity of academic institutions. A list of Sloan Conference participants is appended. (Contains 16 references.) (MAB) | ||
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| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Adjunct Faculty. |2 ericd. |
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| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Educational Quality. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Employment Practices. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Faculty College Relationship. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Faculty Workload. |2 ericd. |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Higher Education. |2 ericd. |
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| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Part Time Faculty. |2 ericd. |
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