Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Resources Supporting Contingent and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members at LVAIC Institutions
These resources are provided for all faculty with temporary appointments in LVAIC (e.g. adjuncts, instructors, lecturers, visiting assistant professors, clinical instructors) to support teaching efforts, sustain scholarship, and advance academic job search efforts.
Teaching
Online websites and books informing teaching initiatives
Websites
- How to Be a Great Adjunct Professor
- Top Benefits of Teaching as an Adjunct Instructor
- How to Create a Syllabus Advice Guide
- The Case for Inclusive Teaching
- Classroom Assessment Techniques
Books
- Happy Professor: An Adjunct Instructor’s Guide to Personal, Financial, and Student Success by Erin Lovell Ebanks
- Small Teaching by James M. Lang
- Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Harry Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
- What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
- Powerful Teaching: Unleashing the Science of Learning by Pooja K. Agarwal and Patrice M. Bain
- Creating Significant Learning Experiences by L. Dee Fink
- Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe
- Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education by Thomas J. Tobin and Kirsten T. Behling
- Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers by Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross
Scholarship
Below are several examples of how contingent faculty members can sustain scholarship during their appointments:
- Dedicating non-teaching time to working on scholarly projects
- Publishing dissertation work
- Collaborating on research projects with faculty internal or external to the institution
- Carrying out and publishing scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects
- Participating in scholarly writing groups or other writing sessions
- Seeking out available departmental and institutional resources such as funding for conference travel or other support for scholarship
Academic Job Search
Resources for advancing faculty job searches and interviews
Chronicle Vitae articles:
- Preparing for the Job Market
- The Quick and Relatively Painless Guide to Your Academic Job Search
- Making a Statement
- How Do I Pitch Myself for a Visiting Assistant Professorship?
- Lunch with Your Faculty Interviewers
- How to Succeed at a Teaching Demo
- The Teaching Demo: Less Power, More Point
- The First-Round Interview Versus the Campus Visit
