Adjunct Faculty Hiring System

Kezar and Maxey (2013) further noted that from the first time adjuncts are hired and continuing throughout their employment, they do not have access to resources such as funding to attend training and conferences to support their professional development or formal evaluation by administrators. According to Louziotis (2000), poor hiring and recruitment practices, which are relevant to the study on evaluation of adjuncts are other challenges for adjunct faculty (Bousquet, 2014). Many institutions and departments hire adjuncts within days of the start of the semester. As a result, colleges often have no formal criteria or systematic processes for recruiting and hiring adjunct faculty. Liftig (2014), argues that since institutions dependency on adjunct faculty remains consistent, the administrators should review and agree on recruiting and hiring criteria to meet the acceptable standards of education intuition’s hiring processes. …show more content…
Currently, researchers state that the adjunct faculty is in the majority of the faculty in American institutions of higher learning (Langen, 2011; Keyzar & Maxey, 2012). A research study on the employment status of instructional staff members in higher education found that between 1975 and 2011, the rate of tenured and tenure-track faculty had dropped by 12 % while the rate of adjunct faculty increased in the same period by 17%. Overall, by 2011, 60% of the American teaching faculty in higher education consisted of adjunct faculty (AAUP, 2011). As of 2013, there were more than 1.3 million contingent adjuncts, making 75 percent for all college teachers (Greenberg,