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Contingent faculty: More than a tribe of nomads
Author(s) -
Harrell Charles L.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/teth.12512
Subject(s) - tribe , perspective (graphical) , institution , adjunct , value (mathematics) , service (business) , sociology , social science , anthropology , philosophy , art , business , computer science , marketing , visual arts , linguistics , machine learning
In this essay I review the advantages and challenges of contingent faculty service from a perspective which crosses programs, but chiefly from within one academic institution, a church‐related but independent theological seminary. I anecdotally relate certain “value‐added” potentialities which accrue for students and instruction when an adjunct faculty's primary institutional connections are outside the academic environment. I cite benefits to the student, school, and instructor. See companion essays published in this issue of the journal by Hoon J. Lee, Adam Wirrig, Bradley Burroughs, and Kyle A. Schenkewitz.