The Adjunct Faculty Handbook

Book Overview

Colleges and universities are turning more and more to part-time and adjunct faculty to fill teaching needs. However, adjuncts may be given little more than a date, a time, a room number, and a brief course description to help prepare for and teach a course. The Adjunct Faculty Handbook provides administrators and part-time and full-time faculty with a much-needed, practical resource for helping adjuncts teach effectively. Administrators will find this book helpful for designing policies for adjunct programs and evaluating faculty. Both part-time and full-time faculty will benefit from its explorations of course planning, teaching strategies, cooperative learning, student evaluations, and professional development. The Adjunct Faculty Handbook is enhanced with handy checklists, sample syllabi, evaluation forms, and case studies. From graduate students embarking on a teaching career to professionals who wants to share their real-world expertise through teaching, this book is an invaluable guide for the "invisible academics" and those who work with them. "It is a very useful primer. The book is very comprehensive. It gives plenty of practical examples, yet it also refers to teaching and learning theory. It has very few weaknesses." --Martin Lightfoot in Management & Education "The book is very comprehensive. It gives plenty of practical examples, yet it also refers to teaching and learning theory. It has very few weaknesses. It is an excellent little book which I have no hesitation to recommend to a colleague." --Management & Education "Higher education generally provides limited guidance and tools for negotiating campus culture and strategies for delivering high-quality instruction to its on-campus faculty. The void of information is dramatically magnified for those who are part-time adjunct employees. Virginia Bianco-Mathis and Neal Chalofsky have edited a handbook that no longer marginalizes, trivializes, or neglects a spectrum of issues--from campus parking to professional development--that confront the often alienated adjunct faculty. This handbook contains advice and approaches for teaching practices that both new and seasoned faculty can employ to revisit and revitalize what goes on in their classrooms." --Margaret E. Holt, Adult Education Department, University of Georgia

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761902783
• ISBN13: 9780761902782
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A great book for a quick teaching workshop

I was asked to put together a "continuing education" course for community college instructors, and this book came in very handy. I passed it over when we were planning the curriculum for a degree program because it is too general and covers too much ground. However, for a fast-paced introduction to teaching post-secondary classes, this is the book you want. I was tempted to gather free materials and avoid a text for the continuing ed course, but participants find it very handy to have a text to refer to later. And, it is much easier to hand off the course to another instructor if a text is available. This text isn't for every purpose, but I gave it five stars for my purpose of getting college instructors up to speed as quickly as possible before they enter the classroom. The table of contents is a ready-made list of the topics I need to cover.