Browsing by Subject "Community colleges--United States--Faculty"
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Item Adjunct faculty integration in community colleges : a case study(2001-12) Granville, Debra Maria, 1956-; Roueche, John E.This investigation was an action research design--Action research may be traced to Kurt Lewin’s 1947 research method and extends the interpretivist paradigm, setting forth "the idea of studying things through changing them and seeing the effect." (Sanford, 1981 quoted in Merriam, 1995). Edison Community College (Edison), located in Southwest Florida, provided the setting that was investigated and identified practical systematic linkages for use by adjunct faculty supervisors and administrators in American community colleges. (The term community college will be used in this writing to represent public post-secondary learning institutions that serve students’ needs for transfer, career, and vocational preparation.) In stage one of this investigation, the researcher identified a primary communication team to participate in the research design. The team, identified as an Adjunct Faculty Development Team (AFDT) was composed of college personnel that impacted directly or indirectly upon the hiring, supervision, and delivery of vital communications to Edison adjunct faculty. (Adjunct faculty, when used in this writing, will be a descriptor for faculty who are employed for no more than 20 hours weekly at any one institution. Additionally, this term does not include any student assistants or graduate students.) The researcher was included as a participant in this design to act as a facilitator, for an inclusive model in this research study. In stage two, additional community colleges’ documentation provided the researcher was included in the on-going dialogue processes from stage one. Targets for success were identified, a systematic approach for information dissemination form was produced, and a valueweighted form was designed. Procedures and resources were categorically designated as either essential or discretionary functions designed to impact adjunct faculty integration at Edison. The new strategies revealed as a result of this action research process serve to provide stronger linkages between the administrators and supervisors of adjunct faculty as well as improved inclusion processes for the improvement of the adjunct faculty involvement in the organization. The study concludes with a discussion of the implications for organizational development and recommendations that members of the AFDT contributed for utilization in the system-wide organization practices. Limitations of the research are included, and suggestions for future research are indicated.Item The effects of salary on job satisfaction among community college adjunct faculty: specific factors(2003) Goodall, Donetta Denise Beverly; Moore, WilliamAdjunct faculty make up approximately sixty-five percent of all faculty teaching at the college level and from all indications, this percentage will increase as higher education institutions attempt to keep pace with increasing student enrollments while also attempting to remain within budgetary constraints. Adjunct faculty have long been dissatisfied with their conditions of employment and have been very vocal in expressing that displeasure. This issue will continue to grow in importance since colleges have become so dependent on adjuncts to deliver instruction, to bring current practices and knowledge into the classroom setting and provide the contact between the educational setting and the work setting. Many factors can influence how adjunct faculty view their working conditions and experience their jobs, and while there is research that adjunct faculty are dissatisfied, and that salary figures into the equation of dissatisfaction, the latest research does not adequately address what the relationship is between adjunct faculty satisfaction and salary. This research was conducted to determine if there is a correlation between salary and job satisfaction and if there are other factors which have a higher correlation with job satisfaction than salary. This research determined that there are factors identified by adjunct faculty which are more relevant and important to their job satisfaction than salary. Data were gathered by having 1236 adjunct faculty employed at Austin Community College complete a 125-item survey which was divided into broad categories of general information, demographic information, activities at ACC, employment conditions, new faculty information, relationships, role and expectations, scheduling, pay and benefits, policy, and ACC services. Research questions to be answered as an outcome of the data gathering and analysis were: 1) what is the correlation between salary and job satisfaction among adjunct faculty whose assignment is in the community college? 2) Are there factors other than salary that are more important to job satisfaction among community college adjunct faculty? There were themes that emerged from the research and presented as part of the analysis and recommendations. Factors which positively correlate with job satisfaction are identified and form the basis of recommendations for future employment practice.Item Minority faculty recruitment in community colleges: commitment, attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of chief academic officers(2001) Chapman, Brian G.; Moore, William