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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.
Overcoming Institutional Barriers To Service Learning, Talia Smith, Annie Zou, Grace Nelson, Ali Al-Ghaithi
Overcoming Institutional Barriers To Service Learning, Talia Smith, Annie Zou, Grace Nelson, Ali Al-Ghaithi
Center for Engagement and Community Development
Partnerships between universities and community organizations contribute to sustainable community development by creating networks of resources that may not otherwise exist among university faculty, students and community members. Service learning serves as a vessel for connecting and strengthening these resources; however, barriers within universities limit effective practice. University faculty members often cite time constraints, coordination challenges, and lack of support as deterrents to the incorporation of service learning projects in their courses. To overcome such barriers, universities can implement institutional structures and programs that facilitate community-engaged learning. A case study of the Service Learning Academy (SLA) at the University of …