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Building a Balanced Portfolio: Investing in TAs and Other Contingent Faculty
- 1. Building a Balanced Portfolio Investing in TAs and Other Contingent Faculty Julia Feerrar, Virginia Tech TILC 2016 Rebecca K. Miller, Penn State Radford, VA
- 2. “ Why did you choose this session? What are you hoping to learn?
- 3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES ◉Articulate the value of investing in partnerships with TAs and contingent faculty in order to build new teaching collaborations ◉Identify strategies for engaging with courses beyond one-shot workshops ◉Analyze your own teaching portfolio in order to reflect on opportunities for building new partnerships and experimenting with new strategies
- 5. OUR STORY FIRST YEAR WRITING AT VIRGINIA TECH 150+ Sections Offered Per Year How to do so in a sustainable and impactful way? Opportunity to Reach Many Students F Faculty Partners
- 6. WHO ARE OUR FACULTY PARTNERS? ENGL 1106 Spring 2016: 125 sections offered by 72 total faculty: ◉43 GAs ◉22 instructors ◉7 adjunct instructors ◉0 tenure-line faculty
- 7. WHO ARE OUR FACULTY PARTNERS? ENG 15: Writing & Rhetoric Fall 2015: 110 sections offered by 74 total faculty, including: ◉ 38 lecturers ◉ 36 GAs ◉ 0 tenure-line faculty
- 8. CONTINGENT FACULTY ● More than 50% of all faculty appointments are part-time ● Over 20% of these part-time appointments are held by graduate students ● Non-tenure-track positions account for over 70% of all instructional staff appointments in American higher education ● Most contingent faculty teach basic core courses, rather than narrow specialty courses
- 9. ◉ Simultaneously be teaching at multiple institutions ◉ Actually be teaching the equivalent of a full-time teaching loading, despite being part-time ◉ Lack access to retirement or health insurance options ◉ Lack access to basics, such as office space or technology support ◉ Experience lack of professional support, including training or evaluation ◉ Have no voice in shared governance ◉ Not feel protected by intellectual freedom CONTINGENT FACULTY MAY…
- 10. “Who are your faculty collaborators? Have you observed any specific challenges or needs?
- 11. VALUE OF PARTNERING WITH THEM BEYOND ONE- SHOTS? Teaching librarians Faculty partners Invest time more wisely Learn from experienced teachers Exposure to new and innovative ideas Acknowledgment and validation of specific and individual expertise Potentially reaching more students Empowered to integrate info lit in customized ways Cultivating future collaborators/faculty members Identify librarians as valuable partners in future interactions
- 12. PORTFOLIO OF INSTRUCTION OPTIONS ◉Training the Trainers ◉Toolkit of Teaching Materials: guides.lib.vt.edu/1106toolkit ◉Drop-In Research Studios ◉Flipped Classes
- 14. Future Growth
- 15. FUTURE GROWTH: PENN STATE
- 16. “What is one thing you could do to strategically integrate collaboration with contingent faculty into your program?
- 17. THANKS! Julia Feerrar Learning Services Librarian Virginia Tech University Libraries @JuliaFeerrar Rebecca K. Miller Head, Library Learning Services Penn State University Libraries @rebeccakmiller
- 18. CREDITS Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free: ◉ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival ◉ Photographs by Unsplash
Editor's Notes
- Introduce bingo Premium accounting
- opportunity cost options
- investment
- Asset allocation trade-offs This is something we’ve been thinking about for a while, especially in the context of FYW at VT
- Inflation of students and instruction demand Bottom line is how to do that in a sustainable and impactful way Tax Need to think more about our faculty partners before we can think about experimenting with different teaching approaches
- Spreadsheet of all sections offered 0 started looking them up and categorizing Ratio – of instructors
- loss
- overhead budget
- Equity Costs commodities
- Liabilities expenses
- Synergy Profit inventory return on investment *Rebecca starts and go back and forth
- Net income Revenue Proceeds *Can certainly do these things with other faculty as well
- Resources growth interest *consulting roles, libguides and other prepackages online content, modules…
- Debt loan
- net worth