Synopsis
Colleges and universities are turning more and more to part-time and adjunct faculty to fill teaching needs. However, adjuncts may be given little more than a date, a time, a room number, and a brief course description to help prepare for and teach a course. The Adjunct Faculty Handbook provides administrators and part-time and full-time faculty with a much-needed, practical resource for helping adjuncts teach effectively. Administrators will find this book helpful for designing policies for adjunct programs and evaluating faculty. Both part-time and full-time faculty will benefit from its explorations of course planning, teaching strategies, cooperative learning, student evaluations, and professional development. The Adjunct Faculty Handbook is enhanced with handy checklists, sample syllabi, evaluation forms, and case studies.
From graduate students embarking on a teaching career to professionals who wants to share their real-world expertise through teaching, this book is an invaluable guide for the "invisible academics" and those who work with them.
"It is a very useful primer. The book is very comprehensive. It gives plenty of practical examples, yet it also refers to teaching and learning theory. It has very few weaknesses."
--Martin Lightfoot in Management & Education
"The book is very comprehensive. It gives plenty of practical examples, yet it also refers to teaching and learning theory. It has very few weaknesses. It is an excellent little book which I have no hesitation to recommend to a colleague."
--Management & Education
"Higher education generally provides limited guidance and tools for negotiating campus culture and strategies for delivering high-quality instruction to its on-campus faculty. The void of information is dramatically magnified for those who are part-time adjunct employees. Virginia Bianco-Mathis and Neal Chalofsky have edited a handbook that no longer marginalizes, trivializes, or neglects a spectrum of issues--from campus parking to professional development--that confront the often alienated adjunct faculty. This handbook contains advice and approaches for teaching practices that both new and seasoned faculty can employ to revisit and revitalize what goes on in their classrooms."
--Margaret E. Holt,
Adult Education Department,
University of Georgia
About the Author
Dr. Virginia Bianco-Mathis began her career with management positions at C&P Telephone as a training and development manager, then Lockheed-Martin working in corporate training and development. Later, she joined The Artery Organization as vice president of human and organization development. After receiving her doctorate, Dr. Bianco joined Marymount University and began teaching, consulting, presenting, and writing in her areas of expertise: organizational change, strategic planning, executive coaching, organizational communications, team building, and leadership development. Her most recent publications include Leading from the Inside Out: A Coaching Model (Sage, 2002), Organizational Coaching: Building Relationships and Programs that Drive Results (ASTD Press, 2009), and Executive Stories to Change Your Mindset (The Public Manager, Fall 2011). Dr. Bianco has forged partnerships with the American Society of Training and Development and the Society of Human Resource Management in order to align their researched competencies with Marymount’s Human Resource Management degree programs. Dr. Bianco consults with major organizations throughout the country, writes a weekly online column for the The Washington Post entitled “On Success,” and is an editor for the OD Journal.
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