Developing Adjunct Faculty Part 2

by Richard Lyons AS DISCUSSED IN my last column, employing adjunct instructors provides our institutions many benefits beyond reducing overall instructional costs. These include enriching our curricula with real-world perspectives, offering highly specialized courses for increasingly demanding students, cultivating linkages to community resources, and providing staffing flexibility. As any critical resource does, however, adjunct faculty requires ongoing development for its value to appreciate. When sufficiently developed, your adjunct faculty can be leveraged powerfully to aid you in addressing the array of issues impacting institutional effectiveness. In recent years, our paradigm of institutional effectiveness has evolved significantly. While success was once indicated […]