Understanding the Needs of Part-Time Faculty at Six Community Colleges. CCRC Research Brief.
Understanding the Needs of Part-Time Faculty at Six Community Colleges. CCRC Research Brief.
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了解六所社区学院兼职教师的需求。
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2018
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Octaviano Chavarín
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Susan Bickerstaff;Octaviano Chavarín
在过去的十年里，社区大学进行了一系列的改革，重点是提高学生的学习能力、毅力和完成度。这项工作包括对发展性教育、咨询和学生支持服务的改革。最近，许多州的社区大学已经开始了整个机构的改革，旨在影响学生从入学到毕业的多个方面。然而，在这场广泛的改革运动中，一个受到较少关注的领域是兼职教员的工作条件。在社区大学，大约67%的教学人员是兼职的（Hurlburt & McGarrah, 2016）。长期的研究表明，兼职教师在具有挑战性的条件下工作，机构支持有限（例如，Kezar & Sam, 2013; Kezar, 2013; Schuster & Finkelstein, 2008）。与这些情况并非无关的是，研究结果表明，由兼职教师教授的学生在坚持、完成和转学方面的结果不太有利（Eagan & Jaeger, 2009; Ran & Xu, 2017; Yu, Campbell, & Mendoza, 2015）。因此，改善社区大学的全面愿景必须包括改善兼职教师的工作条件，因为这样做很可能会对学生的成功产生影响。
Over the past decade, community colleges have engaged in an array of reforms focused on increasing student learning, persistence, and completion. This work has included reforms to developmental education, advising, and student support services. And more recently, community colleges in many states have embarked on whole-institution reforms designed to impact multiple dimensions of the student experience, from intake to completion. Yet, within this broad reform movement, an area that has garnered less attention is the working conditions of adjunct faculty. In community colleges, about 67 percent of instructional faculty are part-time (Hurlburt & McGarrah, 2016). A long history of research has shown that part-time faculty work under challenging conditions with limited institutional support (e.g., Kezar & Sam, 2013; Kezar, 2013; Schuster & Finkelstein, 2008). Not unrelated to these circumstances are research findings suggesting that students taught by part-time faculty have less favorable outcomes in terms of persistence, completion, and transfer (Eagan & Jaeger, 2009; Ran & Xu, 2017; Yu, Campbell, & Mendoza, 2015). Thus, a comprehensive vision for the improvement of community colleges must include improving the working conditions of adjunct faculty, as doing so may well have attendant implications for student success.