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Provide the Professional Opportunities Adjuncts Need to be Successful

Madison, Wis.—June 13 — “In the best world, we’d like to see a system in which there’s one faculty,” rather than one full-time faculty and one part-time faculty, said Helen Burnstad, director emeritus of Staff and Organizational Development at Johnson County Community College.

Burnstad and JCCC colleague Dr. Joseph Gadberry, assistant dean for the sciences and the director for adjunct certification training, shared this and other thoughts on supporting your institution’s adjunct and part-time faculty during the June 13 online seminar “A Systematic Approach to Supporting Part-Time Faculty.”

Burnstad and Gadberry outlined the following ways community colleges can ensure that their adjuncts and part-timers have a voice in their institutions’ faculties:

  • conducting a campus-wide survey of adjunct/part-time faculty regarding the college environment as it affects them
  • creating an advisory council of adjunct/part-time faculty representatives that meets monthly with the vice president of instruction
  • creating an adjunct/part time faculty handbook
  • creating a part-time faculty list-serve
  • ensuring there is part-time faculty representation on campus-wide committees and other working groups
  • including part-time faculty representation in departmental meetings and textbook adoptions

    • Burnstad and Gadberry also suggested acknowledging part-time and adjunct faculty efforts by:

  • recognizing years of service and longevity
  • recognizing research and publications
  • creating an Adjunct Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
  • holding recognition celebrations
  • recognizing teaching service for adjunct/part-time faculty retiring after teaching 10 or more years
  • providing emeritus status

    • If you missed the June 13 seminar and would like to order a transcript or CD of the event, click here to visit our online catalog.

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