New Member Interested In Hendrix

volunteer_mom
Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:50:33 +0000

I was curious so I looked at the Carleton 2004-2005 catalog and they list 12 adjunct instructors, 21 visiting assistant professors, 5 visiting distinguished professors and 15 visiting instructors. They also list 29 lecturers but 18 of these are in music so they are probably professional musicians who give occasional lectures.`

Hendrix lists 7 visiting assistant professors, one visiting instructor, and one regular instructor, but it does have 27 adjunct faculty. Of the adjunct faculty, 8 have PhDs, 3 have JDs, 9 have a master’s degree and 3 have a bachelors degree (3 just list dance and 1 lists business) so they sound very well qualified. One of my daughters favorite teachers at Swarthmore was an instructor who was working on her PhD.

I think all colleges use visiting professors and adjunct faculty so I don’t really see this as a problem in terms of the quality of education. It is a problem for those people with PhDs who want to be hired as full time faculty though.