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## This page intentionally left blank gible for tenure-track positions. Marginalized and rendered somewhat "invisible" professionally, they serve out on the periphery of the academy's main enterprises. Although the respective circumstances of regular tenure-track faculty members and nonregular faculty differ substantially, the chapters following may still offer useful suggestions for adjunct faculty, no less than for those with tenure-track appointments. They too need to apprise themselves of the local institutional culture and better understand their working environment if they are to be successful.They sometimes need mentoring.Visiting or adjunct faculty do seek to improve their instruction, to become the best teachers they can.They are often called on to assume advising duties. And, finally, many elect to engage in research and publishing, if only for whatever intrinsic rewards are involved. It remains to observe, for all of the challenges and difficulties besetting higher education today, that it must be said that academic life can afford exhilarating, satisfying careers for those suited to it by ability, interest, and temperament. However, evidence abounds that even for the mo

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Author

Christopher J. Lucas and John W. Murry, Jr

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 (hardback: ISBN-0-312-29506-5, $79.95; paperback: ISBN-0-312-29537-5, $24.95). Web site: http://www.palgrave.com

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312295066

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Management, Education

Rating

2.91 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14