Research: Adjunct Faculty Employment in Higher Education

Academic Literature

2021-2023

• {NEW} Flying Solo: Professional Isolation and Role Complexity in Solo Faculty Programs (2023), by Cristina de Mello-e-Souza Wildermuth, et. al, published in the journal Studies in Higher Education
• {NEW} Power and Potential: Engaging Adjunct Faculty as Leaders and
  Agents of Change (2022), by Karen M. Layou, et. al, published in New Directions for Community Colleges
• {NEW} Not in the Greater Good: Academic Capitalism and Faculty Labor in Higher Education (2022), by Mark L. Spinrad, et. al, published in the journal Education Sciences
• {NEW} A Multi-faceted, Adjunct-Centered Initiative to Support Part-time Faculty (2022), by Caroline Gelman, et. al, published in the Journal of Teaching in Social Work
• {NEW} A Two-way Street: Adjunct Faculty’s Learning from and with Students about Subject Matter (2022), by Liza Ann Bolitzer, published in the journal College Teaching
• {NEW} Toward Fostering a Sense of Community among Online Adjunct Faculty: Strategies of Selected Higher Education Administrators (2022), by Alexandra Catherine Blankinship, unpublished PhD dissertation, College of William and Mary in Virginia
• {NEW} Online Adjunct Faculty Perceptions of Professional Development to Support Personal and Professional Academic Growth During COVID-19 (2021), by Cheryl Burleigh, et. al, published in the journal Higher Learning Research Communications
• {NEW} A Role for Disciplinary Societies in Supporting Community College Adjunct Faculty (2021), by Susan Bickerstaff & Florence Xiaotao Ran, published in New Directions for Community Colleges
• {NEW} Adjunct Faculty Professional Identity: An African-American Postsecondary Administrator’s Part-time Teaching Narrative (2021), by C. Dean Campbell, from The Beauty and the Burden of Being a Black Professor
• {NEW} Power and Potential: Engaging Adjunct Faculty as Leaders and Agents of Change (2022), by Karen M. Layou, et. al, published in the journal New Directions for Community Colleges
• {NEW} (excerpt): Exploitation and Isolation in Academia: The Marginalized Experience of Adjunct Faculty (2021), by Erin Andro, doctoral dissertation, Kent State University
• {NEW} Gleaning the Fields of Higher Education: Exercises of an adjunct Self and Instructional Precaritization (2021), by Stephen T. Sadlier, et. al, published in Labor Studies Journal
• {NEW} How Academic Community and an Ethic of Care can Shape Adjunct Work Environments: A Case Study of a Community College (2021), by Cecile H. Sam, published in the Journal of Academic Ethics
• {NEW} Book Review: The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed their Faculty, their Students, and their Mission, by Herb Childress (2021), by Jon Shelton, published in the journal Labor: Studies in Working-Class History
• {NEW} What do Remote Adjunct Faculty Look for in an Institution? (2021), by Ann Hamilton Taylor, published in the Handbook of Research on Inclusive Development for Remote Adjunct Faculty in Higher Education
• {NEW} It is Not About the Money: Self-Determination Theory as a Lens for Understanding Adjunct Faculty Motivation (2021), by Katie Ervin, from the text Handbook of Research on Inclusive Development for Remote Adjunct Faculty in Higher Education
• {NEW} Why do we Inflate Grades? The Effect of Adjunct Faculty Employment on Instructor Grading Standards (2021), by Kelly Chen, Zeynep Hansen, and Scott Lowe, published in the Journal of Human Resources
• {NEW} Facilitators’ Self-Study of a Virtual Adjunct Faculty Self-Study Collaborative (2021), by Allison Ward Parsons, et. al, published in the journal Studying Teacher Education
• {NEW} Gleaning the Fields of Higher Education: Exercises of an Adjunct Self and Instructional Precaritization (2021), by Stephen T. Sadlier, published in the Labor Studies Journal
• {NEW} Examining the Evolution of Key Characteristics in Faculty Mentoring Programs for Online Adjunct Faculty: Bridging the Distance (2021), by Cathy L. Taylor, et. al, published in The Handbook of Research on Inclusive Development for Remote Adjunct Faculty in Higher Education
  
  2018-2020
  
  
•  To Be Black Women and Contingent Faculty: Four Scholarly Personal Narratives (2020), by Christa J. Porter, et al., published in the Journal of Higher Education 
• The Plight of Adjuncts in Higher Education (2020), by Wes Anthony et. al, published in the journal Practitioner to Practitioner
• The Gig Economy Comes to Academia: Job Satisfaction Among Adjunct Faculty (2020), published in the journal Cogent Education
• Casual Academic Staff Experiences in Higher Education: Insights for Academic Development (2020), by Vivien McComb, et. al, published in the International Journal for Faculty Development
•  The precarious plight of American Working-Class Faculty: Causes and Consequences (2019), by George W. Towers, published in the Journal of Working-Class Studies
• The Adjunct Experience: Is What we “Know” Correct? (2019) by Paul Yakoboski, published in the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
• Professor Who? A Phenomenological Exploration of Working Professionals Who Feel Called to Teach as Adjunct Faculty (2018) by Molly A. Smith, Ph.D., doctoral dissertation at the University of Denver
• Taking College Teachers’ Working Conditions Seriously: Adjunct Faculty and Negotiating a Labor-Based Conception of Quality (2019), by Gary Rhoades, published in the Journal of Higher Education
• {NEW} Preparing University Adjunct Faculty to Teach (2018), by DeJuanna M. Parker, et. al, published in the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice
• Working Off Track: Adjunct Labor in Higher Education (2018), by Chad Gregory Evans, Ph.D., doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania
  
  2010-2017
  
  
• Has the Shift to Overworked and Underpaid Adjunct Faculty Helped Education Outcomes? (2017), by Elvira Nica, published in the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory 
• Waiting to Become: Adjunct Faculty Experiences at Multi-Campus Community Colleges (2017), by Amanda Bakley and Lynn Broadersen, published in Community College Journal of Research and Practice
• The Impact of Faculty Development on Community College Adjunct Faculty (2016), by Stefanie Forster Bourque, Ph.D., doctoral dissertation from the University of New England
• Divided Identity: Part-time Faculty in Public Colleges and Universities, by John S. Levin & Virginia Montero Hernandez (2014), published in The Review of Higher Education
• Adjunct Faculty: Who are these Unsung Heroes of Academe? by Gail D. Garuth & Donald Garuth (2013), published in Current Issues in Education
• The Role of Adjuncts in the Professoriate (2010), by James Stenerson et al., published in the AAC&U journal Peer Review

General References

• {NEW} The Bleak Job Landscape of Adjunctopia for Ph.D.s (2020), by Kevin Carey, published in the New York Times March 9
• {NEW} Characteristics of Adjunct Faculty Members, 2018, published by the Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac 2019
• {NEW} The University is a Ticking Time-Bomb: Treating Nearly 75% of the Professiorate as Disposable is not Sustainable (2019), by Aaron Hanlon, from the Chronicle of Higher Education Chronicle Review
• How to Fix the Adjunct Crisis: Four Views from the Tenure Track (2018), from the Chronicle of Higher Education
• The Faculty of the Future  (2018), by Adrianna Kezar, Daniel Scott, & Hannah Yang, from Inside Higher Education

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