Project Title: A Self-Study of Contingent Faculty and their Impact on Undergraduate STEM Education at a Research-Intensive Institution
Project Team: Caroline Quenemoen (PI), Margaret Beier (Co-PI), Liz Eich (Co-PI), Matt Taylor (Co-PI), Janet Braam, Megan McSpedon, Dereth Phillips, and Renata Ramos.
Presentations:
Eich, E., Schuh, A., Phillips, D. Payne, T. (2024, June 7-9). Impact of non-tenure track faculty on pedagogy and course norms. Poster presented at the Teaching Professor Conference. New Orleans, LA, United States. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GH8T4
McSpedon, M. R., Beier, M. E., & Quenemoen, C. K. (2024, May 23-26). Procedural fairness perceptions of full-time contingent faculty: Implications of professionalization efforts [Poster session]. Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science. San Francisco, CA, United States.
Quenemoen, C. K., Beier, M. E., Eich, E., Taylor, M., Payne, T., & McSpedon, M. R. (2024a, June 16-18). Factors affecting teaching faculty success. [Poster session] 2024 IUSE Summit. Washington, D.C. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GH8T4
Quenemoen, C.K., Beier, M.E., Eich, E., Taylor, M., Payne, T., & McSpedon, M.R. (2024b, March 3-5) Promotable teaching faculty at Rice University: Impact for faculty and students [Poster session]. ARTFUL Conference. Houston, TX, United States.
Quenemoen, C. K., Beier, M. E., Taylor, M. & McSpedon, M. R. (2023, June 12-13). Creating promotable teaching ranks at a research-intensive institution: Key findings and challenges for institutional change [Poster session]. ASCN Transforming Institutions Conference. Minneapolis, MN, United States. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GH8T4
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2121157. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
News: In March 2024, the project team hosted the Advancing R1 Teaching Faculty for Undergraduate Learning (ARTFUL) Conference at Rice University, which convened eight R1 institutions to discuss the promotable teaching faculty role and identify opportunities for collaboration through a Networked Improvement Community. The participating institutions were Duke University, University of Kansas, Northwestern University, Rice University, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Arizona, University of Houston, and University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
