Making Adjuncts Part of the Family After working in industry for many years, I came into education, first as an adjunct and then as a full-time instructor. I have experienced the feelings of being either “just a part-timer” or “you’re one of the family.” Feeling like family can make a tremendous difference in both your [...]
Making Adjuncts Part of the Family Without adjunct faculty members, our students will suffer. Participants in this webinar discuss how to make adjunct faculty members feel more like part of the “educational family” and less like part-time staff. Colleges rely heavily on adjunct faculty members, and they need to know how important they are [...]
Don’t Strike Out: Three Rules for Successful Email Communication With Adjuncts The Adjunct Institute at Alamance Community College (ACC) has been working with adjunct faculty members since 2005. Based on our decade of experience, we have developed three simple rules to guide our communication with adjuncts. Adjuncts often have two or more jobs and many [...]
Applause for Apps! Five Great Apps to Create Meaningful Connections Inside (and Outside) the Classroom I love technology! I guess if I’m being completely honest, what I really love is the engagement, excitement, and interactivity that technology brings to my college classroom. I’m not talking about the bells and whistles (although that’s fun, too), but [...]
Effectively Serving the Male Student Population: Keys to Success Are we satisfied with the opportunities provided to and personal and professional outcomes realized by our male students? What toolkit do we give our male students to help them deal with their unique academic, social, and societal challenges? Explore the unspoken, but critical expectations for [...]
Applause for Apps! Five Great Apps to Create Meaningful Connections Inside (and Outside) the Classroom Shawn Orr, Professional Educator Peer-to-Peer Faculty Development and Consulting Cengage Learning
The Value of Professional Development for Adjuncts Essie Childers, Blinn College
Creating Connections Among Dispersed Faculty Webinar Each panelist, all of whom have experience as adjunct faculty members, adjunct coordinators, or both, discuss ways to create community for and among dispersed faculty (adjuncts faculty member and others, such as online faculty who don’t have an office or maintain a regular presence in their department or [...]
Creative Incentives to Increase Adjunct Participation No budget for professional development? No problem! There are a variety of inexpensive incentives you can use to increase adjunct attendance at professional development sessions. As adjunct coordinators, we all know that funds are limited and that adjuncts are pulled in many different directions. While professional development is one [...]
Cengage Learning and NISOD Make Online Professional Development Materials Available to Adjunct Faculty Expanded Partnership Demonstrates Joint Commitment to Adjunct Faculty Boston, Mass., Oct. 29, 2015 – Recognizing the growing need for adjunct support, Cengage Learning, a global education company, is expanding its partnership with the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), a [...]