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The Departmental Work Lives Of Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty, Pamela Jane Clouse
The Departmental Work Lives Of Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty, Pamela Jane Clouse
Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation
This qualitative phenomenological dissertation explored The Departmental Work Lives of Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty (FTNTT) at two public four-year universities located in the Southeastern region of the United States. This study is based on interviews with twelve (FTNTT) faculty members representing departments traditionally associated within the College of Arts and Sciences. This study found FTNTT faculty participants highly credentialed and reasonably satisfied in their positions. This study adds the descriptor heterogeneous to FTNTT faculty members’ job roles, work environments, daily engagements, and work experiences and contradicts existing literature that finds FTNTT faculty positions to be resource deficit and administratively non-supporting. …