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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED272078 AUTHOR: Biles, George E.; Tuckman, Howard P.
TITLE: Part-Time Faculty Personnel Management Policies.
American Council on Education/Macmillan Series on Higher
Education.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1986
NOTE: 175 p.
AVAILABILITY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 866 Third
Avenue, New York, NY 10022 ($24.95).
ABSTRACT: A framework for integrating part-time college
faculty into an existing institutional structure is
presented. Suggestions are offered on ways that department
and division heads can make personnel policies that meet
both the part-timer's need for fairness, certainty, and
structure, and the college's need for flexibility and order.
Policies are recommended to minimize the risks resulting
from poorly designed or nonexistent personnel policies for
part-timers. Constraints imposed by institutional charters,
and by public, private, unionized, and nonunionized status
are also addressed. Potential points of conflict between
full- and part-time faculty members are identified, as well
as the divergent interests of part- and full-timers.
Specific considerations concerning affirmative action,
compensation, hiring, and promotion include: selection
criteria, length of appointment, accruing seniority and
access to full-time positions, general and fringe benefits,
eligibility for tenure, teaching responsibilities,
evaluation of part-timers, due process, grievance
procedures, and collective bargaining units for part-timer
faculty. An appendix brings together the essentials of a
part-time faculty handbook, including the college's
background, contractual matters (e.g., appointment,
promotion), and administrative matters. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Collective-Bargaining;
Contracts-; Faculty-Evaluation; Faculty-Promotion; Grievance
Procedures; Higher-Education; Personnel-Management; Teacher
Employment-Benefits; Teacher-Responsibility; Teacher
Salaries; Teacher-Selection; Tenure-; Unions-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Faculty; *Employment-Practices;
*Faculty-College-Relationship; *Part-Time-Faculty;
*Personnel-Policy; *Policy-Formation
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