Faculty

Research

NEA's Research Center Update
Issued six times a year, the Research Center Update gives brief reports on recent data on faculty and staff. Recent issues have focused on the numbers of part-time faculty, faculty satisfaction, the impact of faculty retirement, the numbers of tenured faculty, the numbers and categories of support staff, e-mail and privacy, retirement plans of faculty, and research on distance education. All documents are available in PDF format.

Who Is Teaching In U.S. College Classrooms?: A Collaborative Study of Undergraduate Faculty, Fall 1999
Roper Starch Worldwide conducted this survey of staffing arrangements in higher education in fall 1999. Six groups-anthropology, cinema studies, folklore, linguistics, English, foreign languages, and philology-surveyed all departments in their fields. Three other groups-history, philosophy, and freestanding composition programs-surveyed a sample of departments. The surveys asked departments about who is teaching their classes, and what they provide their part-time and adjunct faculty in the way of support, benefits, and salaries. The 1999 survey grew out of an earlier conference on the growing use of part-time and adjunct faculty, which was held in Washington, DC, in September 1997. Its purpose was to address a growing concern on the part of many in higher education that excessive or inappropriate reliance on part-time faculty members by colleges and universities can weaken an institution's capacity to provide essential educational experiences.

The Education Review - Reviews in Higher Education and Adult Education
The Education Review is a freely accessible electronic journal that publishes reviews of recent books in education, covering the entire range of education scholarship and practice. Reviews are archived, and you can receive announcements of the journal's publication by means of a listserv (EDREV). The Education Review is a service of the College of Education at Arizona State University.

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