How Can I Attract and Retain Adjunct Online Faculty?

How Can I Attract and Retain Adjunct Online Faculty?

As the demand for online education continues to grow, so do faculty capacity issues, often making it necessary for universities to implement alternatives for serving the ever-expanding online student community. One way to curb faculty capacity strain-without impacting the student-teacher ratio at your institution-is to hire adjunct instructors for online education offerings. But this doesn’t come without its challenges.

Different adjuncts come with different qualifications, so in order to ensure the most capable online teachers are hired, administrators must understand the traits to look for during the hiring process and the incentives that motivate and retain these instructors.

Purchase the How Can I Attract and Retain Adjunct Online Faculty? 20-Minute Mentor program, presented by Ann Taylor, PhD. Youll receive insight into the five distinct profiles of adjuncts, learn what motivates them, and discover tips about determining which type of adjunct is best suited to teach at your institution.

Learning Goals

In an easy-to-understand format, Taylor walks you through strategies for better attracting quality adjunct faculty to teach online, methods for determining the most qualified adjuncts, and how to effectively retain them.

During this program, you’ll learn:

• Enrollment trends in online education
• Common faculty capacity issues facing higher education institutions and the strategies used to address those issues when growing online programs
• How to use adjunct faculty to deal with faculty capacity woes while maintaining quality online programming
• The research-driven incentives most likely to motivate adjuncts to teach online
• How incentives can be used for retention purposes

Topics Covered

Topics covered include:

• The growth in online education
• Faculty capacity issues
• The five types of adjuncts
• Pairing adjunct style with your programs teaching needs
• Top incentives for attracting and retaining each adjunct type
• Criteria to include in job postings

Audience

The information presented in this 20-Minute Mentor will be of interest to academic leaders, deans, and program directors who are new to hiring and retaining faculty to teach online as well as those who have been doing this work for some time but are looking to implement new strategies and approaches.

Purchase

For online students, the next institution is only a click away. Making sure students are taught by quality faculty-often adjunct instructors-is key to retention and brand success. This program contains proven strategies that can be used to attract and retain the best adjunct instructors for online courses. Purchase today!

Product Code: OM17AD