Part into the Whole: the Integration of Part-Time Faculty into the Community College

<p>Previous studies on the topic of part-time faculty in community colleges have pointed to their continuous increase in the percentage the faculty majority in the community college throughout the United States. Other studies have described their personal level of satisfaction or the level of their students' outcomes. The purpose of this study was to uncover factors that can better integrate part-time faculty into the organizational culture of the community college resulting in an increase of personal satisfaction and better student outcomes.</p> <p>This was a modified mixed methods study. The quantitative section used descriptive and Chi-square statistics to analyze the responses of full-time and part-time faculty to selected questions from an institutional survey. The qualitative consisted of interviews of part-time faculty members from the same institution.</p> <p>The data from the quantitative portion was conjoined with the data from the qualitative portion and analyzed based on five main constructs: participation in decision making, socialization, communication, personal satisfaction and student outcome. This study was conducted to provide factors, obtained mainly from the qualitative portion, that would better integrate part-time faculty into the organizational culture of the community college in areas indicated in the quantitative portion and from previous studies.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD Higher Education Leadership, Management, Policy

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education Leadership, Management and Policy

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Carberry, Ruth A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Eunyoung Kim, Ph.D.
• Martin Finkelstein, Ph.D.
• Gerald Babo, Ed.D.

• Factors of Part-Time Faculty Integration
• Organizational Contexts and Processes
• Effective Faculty Integration
• Community College Leadership

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/2011

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.shu.edu:dissertations-3032