Adjunct Faculty Advancement Program (AFAP)

Purpose:  To engage and reward adjunct faculty for service to the College and commitment to student learning and professional growth.

Goals:

• To integrate adjunct faculty into the TCC educational community
• To promote the professional growth of adjunct faculty
• To develop institutional practices that foster a commitment to student learning
• To impact student learning outcomes through improved teaching

Enabling Activities:

• Project and support a learning centered teaching philosophy
• Provide assistance in designing professional growth plans
• Provide opportunities for adjunct faculty to develop professional relationships with full-time faculty
• Provide assistance with instructional design, integrating technology, active learning, student engagement strategies, assessment, and classroom management
• Provide a tier of financial rewards to adjunct faculty who develop, implement, evaluate and revise professional growth plans

Eligibility:

Adjuncts who have completed ATLAS are added to a list that is shared with the deans who extend invitations to apply to the Adjunct Faculty Advancement Program.

In addition to completing ATLAS, invited applicants must:

• Have taught at least twelve credit hours
• Complete the application
• Submit portfolio pieces created in ATLAS. This includes:
  • a teaching philosophy statement
  • a sample unit of learning outcomes
  • a reflection on the use of a classroom assessment technique
  • a sample assessment tool tied to learning outcomes
  • a reflection on the integration of technology
  • an annotated syllabus
• Develop and include a mini-professional growth plan
• Present a 10 minute interactive teaching demo to a panel of deans

Format:

This program is designed to provide adjunct faculty members with the time and opportunity to enhance teaching and learning. Participants in the program will:

• Attend one meeting at the beginning of the semester to discuss the details of the program
• Meet with their assigned mentor
• Invite the mentor to class to complete the observation
• Meet with the mentor to compare observation forms
• Work on mini-professional growth plan to improve teaching and learning
• Complete results and assessment form
• Submit mentor’s observation form, self completed observation form, and results and assessment by deadline
• Attend Induction Ceremony

Documents:

• Guidelines (pdf 70.61 kB)
• Professional Growth Plan Example (pdf 185.99 kB)  (pdf 32.06 kB)
• Classroom Observation Form  (pdf 43.60 kB)
• Mentor Guidelines (msword 25.50 kB)

Incentive:

• Stipend of $300
• Salary increase per credit hour as noted in the current salary schedule 
• Induction into the TCC Academy of Adjunct Professors