1. Achieving the Dream Grant-Funded Initiative
Delta College’s Pioneer Year: Engaging (Adjunct) Faculty in Student Success
Achieving the Dream Grant-Funded Initiative

2. Assessing the Need: Does This Sound Familiar?
Delta in Brief
Student population: Approximately 10,000 with steadily decreasing retention and admission.
Faculty: Full Time and 300+ Adjunct
Segregated faculty: Adjunct Office removed from Discipline; Full time faculty attend a series of fall learning days; adjunct faculty attend a 3 hour evening session; Divisions may or may not include adjunct faculty in division meetings, student activities such as campus fairs, oversight for student organizations; Concern over the number of adjunct faculty hired and impact on full time faculty; Limited resources/money for faculty development; adjunct faculty teaching at multiple colleges

3. What It Takes To Be a Pioneer!
Challenge: Break Barriers, Dream Bigger, Teach Smarter

4. BREAK BARRIERS: Collegiality The First Frontier: Faculty Learning Circles
GOAL: To establish a networking system of trust and respect among faculty.
Recognizing the Challenges
CCRC/Delta Survey: Faculty reported:
Lack of professional relationships with colleagues
Limited opportunity to attend professional development offerings
Adjuncts: fearful of making mistakes
Adjuncts: feel disconnected from departments

5. Celebrate the Successes
BREAK BARRIERS: Collegiality The First Frontier: Faculty Learning Circles
Celebrate the Successes
FFCs create a feeling of solidarity
FFCs define professional development
FFCs open opportunities
FFCs foster Team Teaching Partnerships

6. Recognize the Challenges
DREAM BIGGER: Collaboration The Next Frontier: Creating Professional Repository
GOAL: To create a repository of professional materials identified and created by the faculty.
Recognize the Challenges
CCRC/Delta Survey
Limited opportunities to present/attend conferences
Less than 1/3 adjuncts attend fall academy
Want to better serve underserviced, struggling, and diverse student population but feel lack of preparedness

7. Celebrate the Successes
DREAM BIGGER: Collaboration: The Next Frontier: Creating Professional Repository
Celebrate the Successes
Faculty-driven professional development
Alignment with Delta campus
Strengthen initiatives and Streamline Process

8. TEACH SMARTER: Ownership The Final Frontier: Team Teaching Partnerships
Goal: To fully engage faculty in student success through collegiality, collaboration, support and shared classroom teaching. Recognize the Challenges Shift in classroom dynamics Faculty resistance Institutionalizing: Costs and Scheduling Use of the findings: incentive/dismissal

9. TEACH SMARTER: Ownership The Final Frontier: Team Teaching Partnerships
Anticipated and Recognized Successes Ability to learn from each other Exchange of ideas; innovation Increase in time with students Ability to try new strategies, techniques, activities Self-evaluation, peer-evaluation, division support

10. Beyond the Final Frontier: Institutionalizing Professional Development
Celebrate the Successes: Successful completion of first year. Ongoing interest and support of project. Increase in adjunct faculty supplemental compensation. CAMPUS FOCUS ON STUDENT! Work with ATD coaches. Desire by campus to institute true change.

11. Beyond the Final Frontier: Institutionalizing Professional Development
Strategies Moving Forward
Revitalize Delta Professional Development
Rebrand and vision
Continue aligning project with current Delta initiatives
Continue to design a repository from faculty need
Scale up: Increase faculty involvement