Other colleges, for example College of the Canyon in California, have developed programs for the training and inclusion of part time faculty. I have communicated by with Russell Richardson who is the director the Associate Program at the College of the Canyon and he has offered to help us in to develop a systematic program addressing the issue of integrating the part time faculty into the college community. Mr Russell has even offered to fly out to Columbia to set up a training program. I have attached a copy of one of his communications. One issue that surfaced over and over again in our interviews with the part time faculty is the issue of training.
Many colleges have a systematic program for training part time faculty.
The College of the Canyon, for example has a two part training program. All new part time faculty are required to attend a basic training seminar which takes place on Saturday before each semester. The College of the Canyon also offers an advanced training program. This program provides veteran instructors a chance to enhance their teaching skills in the course of three Saturday sessions. Twelve instructors are chosen each semester to receive this advanced training.