RURAL APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENGLISH PART-TIME FACULTY: A LOOK AT ROLES AND RELATIONSHIPS

Community colleges have played an important role in post-secondary education, especially in the rural Appalachian region. Historically, community colleges have employed an overwhelming majority of part-time faculty. This study investigated the perceptions of the professional roles and relationships of the English part-time faculty at rural Appalachian community colleges, and included the department and the rural Appalachian community. The findings identified multiple roles of part-time faculty as teacher, advisor / mentor, institutional insider, community player, income provider and Appalachian citizen. Within the English departments at the colleges involved in this study, retired public school teachers filled a unique set of these roles.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Studies

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Robinson, Ruby

Contributors dc:contributor

• Anne M Knupfer
• John E. Hill
• Marilyn A. Hirth
• William D. McInerney

• Appalachian
• community college
• Part-time faculty
• rural

Repository record dc:identifier

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1203

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:docs.lib.purdue.edu:open_access_dissertations-2419