Part-time Faculty Employment in Post-secondary Physical Education: Legal Issues and Administrative Implications

Quest ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Sandra K. Gangstead ◽  
Louise Esplin-Swensen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty ◽  
Faculty Employment

scholarly journals Supply side fantasies and precarious part-time academic labor

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Daniel Jacoby ◽  
Jonathan Boyette
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Data Policy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Commuting Distances ◽  
Time Faculty

Reliance upon part-time instructors within U. S. post-secondary institutions has received a great deal of attention, particularly as the percentage of such faculty has become the largest single category of faculty in academia. Understanding how part-time markets operate may allow better policy. Most current studies on the subject examine national markets, and emphasize demand factors motivating expansion of the part-time workforce. Although the subject of supply was once critical to discussions it has received less attention of late in part due to a faulty understanding of how part-time markets operate. Cross sectional regression analysis is performed to explore potential correlations between the number of graduating masters and doctoral students and reliance upon part-time faculty at neighboring institutions of higher education. Where previous researchers have found that institutions in more urbanized settings exhibit greater reliance upon part-time faculty, this analysis indicates that local availability of recently minted masters and PhD degrees within commuting distances of the hiring institution more closely fits staffing data. Policy actors may be able to use these results to better coordinate regional or local demand to supply, which has implications for unions and other policy actors attempting to limit reliance upon part-time faculty.

scholarly journals Flexibility at the Core: What Determines Employment of Part-Time Faculty in Academia

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangmin Liu ◽  
Liang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty ◽  
Faculty Employment

Summary In this study, we examine institutional predictors of part-time faculty employment in the higher education sector in the United States. We draw upon institutional and individual-level data to examine the variation in the intensity of part-time employment in faculty positions among a representative sample of higher education institutions. Institutional-level data are from Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and individual-level data are from National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF). These data allow us to examine the impact of both economic factors and social environment on employment practices of colleges and universities. This analysis adds to the emerging literature on non-standard work arrangements in core organizational functions. Our results suggest that the employment of part-time faculty is significantly associated with a set of organizational attributes and characteristics such as institutional type, sources of revenue, and part-time student enrolment. Private institutions, on average, have higher levels of part-time faculty than their public counterparts. The proportion of part-time students and the share of institutional revenues derived from tuition and fees are positively associated with part-time faculty employment. Faculty unions are positively related to the employment of part-time faculty. Finally, institutions that have limited resource slack and pay high salaries to their full-time faculty members tend to employ a high proportion of part-time faculty. These results support the arguments that higher educational institutions actively design and adopt contingent work arrangements to manage their resource dependence with constituencies and to reduce labour costs.

scholarly journals A test of resource dependency theory using higher education institution behavioral changes after state based merit aid adoption

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jason (Jason F.) Evans
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Support ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Merit Aid ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Tenure Track Faculty ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty ◽  
Faculty Employment

The purpose of this study was to analyze whether four-year, public institutions altered their behaviors as their revenue streams changed. I utilized state based merit aid adoption to examine whether institutions altered their functional expenditures and faculty employment behaviors as institutions became more resource dependent on students. The dependent variables concerning functional expenditures analyzed were instruction, research, student services, public services, academic support, institutional support, and scholarships. The dependent variables concerning faculty employment analyzed were part-time faculty, full-time non-tenure-track faculty, and fulltime tenure-track faculty. A difference-in-difference estimation strategy estimated institutional responses to a merit aid program being adopted in their state. The findings indicated that after merit aid adoption in their state, institutions altered their behaviors in ways that indicated they became more resource dependent on students. Specifically, the models indicated that, on average, institutions in states that adopted a merit aid program spent more money on instruction, institutional support, and scholarships and employed more part-time faculty than institutions in states that did not adopt any merit aid program. The findings of this study suggest that if states direct funds to students that institutions will respond as though the students provide the funding and not the state.

scholarly journals Faculty Publishing Productivity: Comparisons over Time

2006 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Budd
Keyword(s):  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Time Faculty ◽  
Over Time

Concerns about higher education abound, and these include concerns about productivity. The present study extends two previous examinations of faculty publishing productivity covering the years 1991 to 1993 and 1995 to 1997. Both members of ARL and a group of institutions included in ACRL’s data set are included. For both groups there are some increases in mean total numbers of publications, although the rate of increase has decreased since the second time period. Per capita rates of publication demonstrate an even flatter pattern. In recent years, there have been some changes in the dynamics of universities’ faculties; there are more part-time faculty and more faculty who are not on the tenure track. These factors, coupled with the publishing data, point to activities that all academic librarians should be aware of.

Participation by Women in Annual Meetings, 1970-78

1979 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 318-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Gruberg ◽  
Virginia Sapiro
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Moderate Increase ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Faculty Teaching ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The Status ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty

In the late sixties, women in the United States became sensitized to their second-class status and organized to raise their consciousness and change their conditions. At the same time women in academia began to organize within their disciplines to address the problems they faced there. Political science was no exception; in 1969, when women constituted 5 percent of the membership of the APSA and 8 percent of all political science faculty teaching in colleges and universities, the APSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession and the Women's Caucus for Political Science formed. Numerous reports have revealed a moderate increase in the presence of women in the profession in recent years. As Table 1 shows, the percentage of degrees in political science awarded to women has increased since 1970. By the academic year 1976–77 women constituted 11 percent of full-time faculty and 18 percent of part-time faculty. Twenty-three percent of the students entering Ph.D. programs in 1977 were women, a downturn of 3 percent from the previous year, although an overall rise from the previous decade.

Part-time faculty and the law

1978 ◽  
Vol 1978 (18) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Ronald B. Head ◽  
Edward P. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Law ◽  
Time Faculty
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