OFTEN Comes Just in Time

by Evelyn Beck Not too long ago, Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) brought its adjuncts into the twenty-first century. “It’s hard to imagine anyone working without e-mail and computers even though it’s only been a few years since they became standards for adjuncts,” says Kathryn Baker, a former adjunct who has been teaching full time at the Florida-based college for nearly four years. The implementation of a project called The Online Faculty Teaching Excellence Network (OFTEN) not only provided e-mail and computers, but it has improved the entire communication system for part-time instructors at SFCC. “All adjuncts now have individual […]