A Focus on Adjunct and Dual Credit Educators
Find support specific to adjunct and dual credit faculty needs at the 76th Annual Convention.
Starting Friday at 10:15 a.m., Adora Villanueva, adjunct professor of sociology from Grand Canyon University, will tackle “Uncivil Behaviors in the Classroom: I Wasn’t Prepared for This!”
The culture and structure of higher education has been influenced by consumerism in the U.S., leading to the massification and market for educational services. Based on research trends looking at changes in student expectations and values of higher education, original research was conducted to uncover the real-world descriptions of personal experiences with a range of uncivil student behaviors of at universities across the United States. This presentation will present the research findings based on in-depth interviews with fellow adjunct educators in the U.S. and address the precarious nature of having to mediate student incivility and entitlement. As a community, collective action can be taken to address the need for both financial, social, and professional support from university administrations.
Later that afternoon, at 4:15 a.m., Seth Batiste, professor, strategist, and consultant of Batiste Consulting, will discuss “Instructor Leadership Styles: Exploring the Relationship Between Classroom Leadership Style and Developmental Studies Student Satisfaction with Teaching Effectiveness.”
Thinking of college developmental studies faculty as non-traditional leaders, this workshop looks at 2015 data collected on 360 community college students in 40 random developmental classroom settings of adjunct and full-time faculty. Come see how the results of this study were of significant interest to faculty in an entirely different discipline, business.
Saturday, morning at, 9:00 a.m. faculty can choose between two outstanding programs:
“Learning Frameworks Courses in Texas Community Colleges: History, Course Characteristics, and Future Directions”
In this session, panelists will overview the Greater Texas Foundation grant project and present findings from content analyses of learning frameworks course syllabi that help to reveal curricular characteristics of learning frameworks courses in Texas community colleges.
The other 9:00 a.m. program in this track is, “The Dual Credit Student: Why Didn’t I Know That?” In this session, Crystal Benoit Tewes, professor of education at San Jacinto College will aid dual faculty differentiate terms such as homeschool, dual credit, early college and traditional college students, identify common characteristics and traits of dual credit students, and utilizing classroom operations to meet the needs of learners in their classrooms.
Come listen to “Confessions of an Adjunct Professor,” at 10:15 a.m., on how to maintain classes and sanity from a veteran adjunct professor, Amy Denton (in both English and history) at Lone Star College. Learn that you are not alone in facing the problems that academics everywhere are facing. Leave convention with concrete strategies for tackling those selfsame problems.
Check out the adjunct educator (hosted by American Association of Adjunct Educators) and accounting discipline-specific pages for more details on the sessions listed above, and don’t forget to browse the other discipline pages to view the over 150 programs we have lined up! Make this event your own by mixing and matching with the sessions that speak the most to you.
Did you know that several colleges around the state have partnered with TCCTA to cover your registration fee? View the list of participating colleges and register today!
Make your hotel reservations at the Westin Galleria and Westin Oaks Hotels for $135/night online or by calling (713) 960-8100 and mentioning TCCTA to get the discounted rate.
We look forward to seeing you there!