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The Growing use of part-time faculty : understanding causes and effects

Title

The Growing use of part-time faculty : understanding causes and effects / David W. Leslie, editor.

Format

Book

Published

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c1998.

Description

107 p. ; 23 cm.

Other contributors

Leslie, David W. Sloan Conference on Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty (1997 : Arlington, Va.)

Portion of title

Growing use of part time faculty

Uniform series

New directions for higher education ; no. 104

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.

Contents

• Editor's notes / David W. Leslie
• Using part-time faculty more effectively / Frederic Jacobs
• A framework for assessing trends in academic careers / Janet H. Lawrence
• The changing pattern of employment relations / M. Edith Rasell, Eileen Appelbaum
• The subfaculty / Donald N. Langenberg
• Variations in the characteristics of part-time faculty by general fields of instruction and research / Ernst Benjamin
• Implications for knowledge production and careers in science / Catherine D. Gaddy
• Two-tiered faculty systems and organizational outcomes / Pamela S. Tolbert
• Part-time faculty, quality programs, and economic realities / John D. Haeger
• Adjunct faculty in the community college : realities and challenges / Barbara A. Wyles
• New directions for research, policy development, and practice / David W. Leslie.

Subject headings

College teachers, Part-time--United States.