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Onboard, Don’T Orient, New Faculty, Jacqueline Kress
Onboard, Don’T Orient, New Faculty, Jacqueline Kress
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Each year 50,000 highly educated, accomplished people with no preparation for most of the tasks that comprise college faculty work will be hired. Typical orientation programs do not meet their needs to provide useful, timely information and skill-building. Onboarding programs are more effective, and the benefits go beyond the faculty.
Faculty Roles: Unending, Unbundling, Or Unraveling?, Jacqueline Kress
Faculty Roles: Unending, Unbundling, Or Unraveling?, Jacqueline Kress
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
More new adjuncts than new tenure-track faculty? Enrollment and budgets contribute, but the “adjunctification” trend is more complex. The steady unbundling of faculty roles is an important but less recognized contributor. This session overviews the unbundling phenomenon and positions faculty to make informed decisions at their home campuses.