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Recruiting and Retaining Talented Adjunct Faculty
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DESCRIPTION:
“Adjunct faculty are and will continue to be a vital component of the academic community. We need to better understand how to recruit, retain, and support them in their important role,” says Desna Wallin, editor of Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers.
A critical issue for many institutions of higher education is finding talented and dedicated part-time faculty and then providing them with appropriate support and pedagogical assistance. Academic administrators are responsible for the hiring and direct supervision of adjunct faculty, but a number of factors may keep them from sufficiently providing for the needs of this critical group.
During this webinar the speakers will give practical information, useful advice, and other resources and strategies that you can immediately apply at your institution.
What topics will be addressed?
· Recruitment/hiring processes
· Enculturation of adjunct faculty
· Professional development
· Valuing and motivating adjunct faculty
· Full-time/part-time faculty relationships
· Online adjunct training
Who should attend?
Who are the Speakers?
 Desna L. Wallin is assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Georgia and former president of Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (1995-2001). She joined the faculty of the University of Georgia in August, 2001 and brought to the department over 20 years of administrative and faculty experience in post-secondary instruction and administration. From 1989 to 1995 she served as President of Clinton Community College in Clinton, Iowa. She has held additional administrative and faculty positions in Illinois, West Virginia, and Utah.
Dr. Wallin earned her BA in History from Brigham Young University, her MA in English Education from Eastern Illinois University, and her EdD in Post-secondary Curriculum and Instruction from Illinois State University.
She is active in professional associations including the American Association for Community Colleges where she recently completed a term as a national Board member. She serves as a leadership consultant and has designed curriculum and coordinated comprehensive leadership development programs including the AACC Future Leaders Institute and the South Carolina Technical College Leadership Academy.
She is the editor of Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers. She has authored the book The CEO Contract: A Guideline for Presidents and Boards, coauthored the book, Essentialism, Common Sense Quality Improvement, and has written a chapter on the community college curriculum for Multicultural Course Transformation in Higher Education. She has published articles in several refereed journals including the Community College Journal of Research and Practice, the Journal of Educational Technology Systems, the Community College Review, The Community College Journal, and the Journal of General Education. She has made over 60 presentations at regional, national, and international conferences. Her research interests include professional development and post-secondary leadership, particularly in community and technical colleges.
 Dr. Dale F. Campbell, Ph.D. is professor and director of the Community College Leadership Consortium at the University of Florida where he teaches in the Higher Education Administration doctoral program. He is former director of the Institute of Higher Education. His national honors include the 2003 Senior Scholar Award from the American Association of Community Colleges Council for the Study of Community Colleges, the 2002 Outstanding Service to Community Colleges Award by the AACC National Council of Instructional Administrators and the 2000 National Leadership Award by the Board of the American Association of Community Colleges for his long-standing contributions to community colleges nationally. Dr. Campbell is a former member of the AACC Board and Chair of the Learning & Technologies Commission.
Current research interests include the development of a work profile of 21st Century Educational Leaders for executive selection and development. His latest best seller book on this topic published 2002 by Community College Press is entitled The Leadership Gap: Model Strategies for Executive Leadership Development.
Other selected publications include "An Alternate View on the Future of Community Colleges" in On the Horizon and "Developing and Selecting Leaders for the 21st Century" and "Future Concerns--Key Values for Community Colleges" in Community College Journal. He also serves as Editorial Board Member, Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
In 1995, Dr. Campbell founded the Community College Futures Assembly and Bellwether Awards sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education as an independent national policy forum to identify critical issues facing community colleges and recognize model trend-setting programs. www.coe.ufl.edu/futures. He was also instrumental in founding the American Association of Community Colleges affiliate council, the Community College Business Officers, and is recognized as Executive Director Emeritus.
Dr. Campbell was previously Assistant Commissioner for Community and Technical Colleges at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and Visiting Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also served as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Community College Education Program at North Carolina State University and Editor of the Community College Review; Dean of Instruction, Wichita Falls for Vernon Regional Junior College in Texas; Head of Public and Support Services Department, Community College of the Air Force; and is a past Chair of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges. He has provided state and national leadership in workforce development having served as past president of Texas Technical Society and the AACC affiliate National Council for Workforce Education. He is a Lifetime member of the American Technical Education Association.
Dr. Campbell holds a B.A. Degree in Secondary Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.A. in Higher Education from Appalachian State University and a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. He was recognized in 1990 as a Distinguished Graduate of the College of Education and the Community College Leadership Program of the University of Texas.
How do these on-demand trainings work?
1. We will send you a link to the recording, which is good indefinitely.
2. You can distribute this link to your entire faculty and staff via email.
3. They can watch this presentation from any computer that has Internet and speakers.
How would I use it?
You can distribute the links any way you like. Here are some ideas:
- Distribute all links to faculty and staff so they can watch these presentations anytime, anywhere and have a discussion board for each topic
- Distribute one link to all faculty and staff at the beginning of each month during the academic year and plan a discussion session at the end of each month for faculty and staff to get together and plan how they will implement the strategies presented
- Plan a day and time to show each webinar in a large classroom and invite all faculty and staff to attend - debrief immediately following the presentation
- Develop a professional development program around these topics with monthly themes and recognize the staff member that implements the best idea related to the theme
- Utilize these topics to develop cross functional and cross discipline teams to foster collegiality
- Utilize these presentations as part of your new employee training program
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