Back to School in Higher Ed: Who Needs Faculty?
Although 50 years of research has shown that faculty/student interaction is crucial to student success, recent trends and newly-adopted practices in higher education actually decrease the possibilities for faculty to interact with students in the amounts and the ways that matter most.
This paper examines the price students pay for several trends in higher education that have gained acceptance without a balanced critical analysis.
If research were driving higher education policy, investing in faculty would be a top priority at every college and university. But what is happening in our country, instead, is a growing disinvestment in faculty.
This paper details how serious and how pervasive this disinvestment in faculty has become, and it discusses the ways in which current policies and practices around faculty hiring and salary are hurting students.
As the research on student success suggests, the churning of the faculty workforce along…
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