Title: Exploring the role of contingent instructional staff in undergraduate learning /
Authors: Benjamin, Ernst.; Benjamin, Ernst, 1937-
Publisher: Jossey-Bass,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Universities and colleges United States Undergraduate faculty.; Community college teachers.; Universities and colleges United States Faculty.
Abstract: From the publisher: The majority of undergraduate instructors hold contingent appointments, a term used here to include not only the non-tenure-track part-time faculty but also many instructional staff who lack faculty status, an increasing proportion of full-time non-tenure track faculty, and a substantial number of graduate student teaching assistants. This volume seeks to foster a dialogue, long overdue, between those who believe that the academy has failed to give adequate respect and support to undergraduate instruction and those who believe that the academy has failed to give adequate support and respect to the selection and terms and conditions of employment of undergraduate instructors. It may be that the increasing dependence on contingent appointments imperils undergraduate learning no less than it imperils the future of the academic profession.
Contents: The faculty makeover : what does it mean for students? / Jack H. Schuster. - Changing relationships, changing values in the American classroom / Robert B. Townsend. -- Part-time faculty : why should we care? / Maureen Murphy Nutting. -- Contingent faculty and student learning : welcome to the strativersity / Karen Thompson. -- How does university decision making shape the faculty? / John G. Cross, Edie N. Goldenberg. -- The choices before us : an administrator's perspective on faculty staffing and student learning in general education courses / Gary W. Reichard. -- A regional accreditation perspective on contingent faculty appointments / Sandra E. Elman. -- Reappraisal and implications for policy and research / Ernst Benjamin. -- INDEX.