Exploration of the Promoting of the Non-Tenure Track Position as a Means of Enhancing Teaching and Professional Effectiveness in Higher Education: A Reflective Case Analysis of Non-Tenure Track Position Model in a Private University

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  • James M Mbuva National University

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https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v19i3.2118

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Higher Education, Enhancing Teaching, Professional Effectiveness, California, United States, tenure-track

Abstract

The study promoted a non-tenure track position as a means of enhancing teaching and professional effectiveness in higher education using reflective case analysis of non-tenure track position model in a private university. Areas explored included: defining non-tenure track position, performance and the mistreatment of the non-tenured faculty, growth of non-tenure compared with a tenure-track position, what tenure-track position offers, how non-tenure and tenure track positions enhance teaching, scholarship, service and professional effectiveness, and personal reflections of non-tenured track professor at a private university in Southern California, USA. The study found that non-tenured faculty is as productive as the tenured faculty.

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2019-07-18

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Mbuva, J. M. (2019). Exploration of the Promoting of the Non-Tenure Track Position as a Means of Enhancing Teaching and Professional Effectiveness in Higher Education: A Reflective Case Analysis of Non-Tenure Track Position Model in a Private University. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 19(3). https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v19i3.2118

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