Articles and Papers

Exploring the Role of Contingent Instructional Staff in Undergraduate Learning: New Directions for Higher Education, No. 123.

Description: The majority of undergraduate instructors hold contingent appointments, a term used here to include not only the non-tenure-track part-time faculty but also many instructional staff who lack faculty status, an increasing proportion of full-time non-tenure track faculty, and a substantial number of graduate student teaching assistants.
This volume seeks to foster a dialogue, long overdue, between those who believe that the academy has failed to give adequate respect and support to undergraduate instruction and those who believe that the academy has failed to give adequate support and respect to the selection and terms and conditions of employment of undergraduate instructors. It may be that the increasing dependence on contingent appointments imperils undergraduate learning no less than it imperils the future of the academic profession.

The "Editor's Notes," really an introduction, is available online as a PDF: <http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/58/07879722/0787972258.pdf>

The Table of Contents and information on each article are also available online: <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/105558366>

Contingent Faculty and Student Learning

The Fall 2002 issue of the Association of American Colleges and Universities' Peer Review, explores issues and trends associated with the use of part-time and full-time non-tenure-track faculty. In particular, this issue focuses on the impact of these trends on the quality of students' educational experiences.

Forum on Adjunct and Part-Time Faculty: Papers from the AIA/APA Joint Annual Meeting, December 1999

In 1998 the APA held a session about contingent faculty at its annual
meeting. Abstracts of presentations appear here.