part-time faculty
Non-tenured teaching staff
Part-time faculty are instructors hired by colleges and universities to teach without full-time status.
They typically receive lower pay, fewer benefits, and no guarantee of continued employment.
The term often overlaps with adjunct, though some institutions distinguish between them based on workload or contract type: Part-time faculty teach nearly half the courses at community colleges.
The arrangement offers schools flexibility while keeping labor costs down.
- adjunctSubordinate addition to something
- lecturerOne who teaches formally
- contingentConditional or representative group
- instructorOne who teaches skills
- semesterHalf academic year
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- Facultyprofessor, assistant professor, associate professor, full professor, adjunct
- academic ranksprofessor, lecturer, full professor, assistant professor, associate professor
- faculty unionsunion membership, union dues, union organizing, union recognition, union contracts
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