Inside Higher Ed
August 27th, 2015
Non-tenure-track faculty members are the majority of the teaching
force, so what are colleges and universities doing to help them develop
as teachers? As for many issues related to adjuncts, there’s a
significant data gap on the topic -- in part because adjuncts are
diverse and decentralized, making them hard to study. But a new survey
out of the University of Louisville seeks to close the gap, and early
responses provide insight into how colleges and universities’ teaching
and learning centers are supporting their part-time faculty members --
or not.
“We want to know what’s really going on out there,” said Roy Fuller, a
part-time faculty fellow at Louisville’s Delphi Center for Teaching and
Learning and co-leader of a new survey of teaching and learning
center-sponsored professional development opportunities for adjuncts.
“This is really important.”
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