I spend a lot of time supporting Adjunct Faculty in their use of pedagogical technology (Chapman employs about 400 adjunct faculty each semester).\u00a0 In fact, many of the most innovative uses of technology on our campus come from our Adjuncts.<\/p>\n
That’s one reason, among many, that the findings of this study about the effectiveness of non-tenure-track faculty<\/a> do not surprise me.\u00a0 The MLA blog<\/a> quotes:<\/p>\n [A] non-tenure track faculty member increases the likelihood that a student will take another class in the subject by 7.3 percentage points (9.3 percentage points when limited to classes outside the student\u2019s intended major) and increases the grade earned in that subsequent class by slightly more than one-tenth of a grade point (with a somewhat greater impact for classes outside of the intended major).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And, the MLA blog adds a concern that this study:<\/p>\n will…rationalize the further immiseration of the large and rapidly expanding part-time segment of the non-tenure-track academic workforce, under the excuse that \u201cthe research shows\u201d faculty members outside the tenure system teach at least as well and often better, irrespective of the size of their classes, their course 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