Resources Supporting Contingent and VITAL 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.
VITAL Faculty Members are Visiting, Instructors, Teaching Assistants, Adjuncts & Lecturers on our campuses.
Teaching Tools: 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:
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- 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
VITAL Faculty Database
In order to best use resources across the LVAIC community, we have built a searchable spreadsheet of VITAL (Visitors, Instructors, TAs, Adjuncts, and Lecturers) Faculty that currently teach at the LVAIC institutions.
Participating in the database is completely voluntary and by doing so you agree that your information will be shared with the members of the LVAIC schools. If you participated in this database last year you will need to re-submit your information for this year.
This survey is being utilized to create a searchable data base of VITAL within the LVAIC community. The information in this data base will be made available to Provost Offices, Department Chairs and Program Directors within the LVAIC schools. The information is intended to be used to help the campuses identify potential candidates to fill teaching needs.
Complete the Survey to be included in the VITAL Faculty Database.
If you would like access to the Faculty Database to connect with VITAL Faculty, please contact us.
