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LTI-ENA-023

Compensate part-time community college faculty for academic advising duties

Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearappliesFour-year to four-yearapplies

Mechanism

Part-time and adjunct faculty are paid a stipend to advise. It buys advising capacity, and major-specific guidance from the people who teach the courses.

Preconditions

Budget approved by the board or written into the bargaining agreement.

Owner, by role

Vice President of Academic Affairs / Chief Financial Officer

Who can act

One institution alone

Effort

Medium, 6 months to first visible effect

Outcome metric

Part-time faculty in advising workshops; student contact hours

Failure modes

Insufficient funding allocations can fail to motivate adjunct faculty who face high teaching workloads.

Contra-indications

None stated