The Growing use of part-time faculty
Subtitle: understanding causes and effects
By: David W. Leslie,  editor.
Contributors: Leslie, David W.; Sloan Conference on Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty (1997 : Arlington, Va.)
Series: New directions for higher education -- no. 104 (Winter 1998); New directions for higher education -- no. 104.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: College teachers, Part-time -- United States
Other titles: Growing use of part time faculty.
Notes: "... Prepared for a conference on part-time and adjunct faculty sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation."--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editor's notes / David W. Leslie; title: Using part-time faculty more effectively / Frederic Jacobs; title: A framework for assessing trends in academic careers / Janet H. Lawrence; title: The changing pattern of employment relations / M. Edith Rasell, Eileen Appelbaum; title: The subfaculty / Donald N. Langenberg; title: Variations in the characteristics of part-time faculty by general fields of instruction and research / Ernst Benjamin; title: Implications for knowledge production and careers in science / Catherine D. Gaddy; title: Two-tiered faculty systems and organizational outcomes / Pamela S. Tolbert; title: Part-time faculty, quality programs, and economic realities / John D. Haeger; title: Adjunct faculty in the community college : realities and challenges / Barbara A. Wyles; title: New directions for research, policy development, and practice / David W. Leslie.