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Here are a few resources and ideas for those students working on this project.
Adjunct Faculty Senate/Adjunct Faculty Forum - stuff I
brainstormed up a few years ago.
Project Ideas: the project will probably include several of these areas...
Impacts on Education from the Adjunct Condition at UVSC
1. The Student Experience
- gather student opinions and experiences
- factors: lack of office space, adjunct other
employment needs & impacts,
- institutional accreditation requirements and how UVSC measures up.
2. The Adjunct Experience
- job demands
- remuneration (pay)
- dedication, reasons for teaching
- adjunct turnover rate and causes
- adjunct opinions and experiences
3. The Administration Viewpoint
- administration opinions and experiences
- compare to comparable institutions/sister schools
- Are we shooting ourselves in the foot by not taking adjuncts more
seriously?
- Are adjuncts really "Part Time" employees?
4. Solutions / steps in the right direction
- Another tier in the program: part time and committed adjuncts
* time requirement
* competency and/or merit certification
* pay increase and/or other
benefits/opportunities
- if no office space, at least provide lockers (please not only in
Education Building)
- collective lobbying state legislature to fund pay increase (by
students, faculty, administration, with community support - this is how you get things
done in academia and politics)
- form better adjunct representation organization? (what's currently
available?)
- gather more data regarding turnover rates, reasons, etc. - have an
adjunct exit poll.
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