1. The Adjunct Faculty Certification Institute
Strategy Team 5.4: Creating and a World Class Adjunct Faculty Model

2. The Beginnings Associate (Adjunct) Faculty Development Institute
Benefits: Prof. Development, Title, Pay, and Retention
The Institute was originally implemented at the Muncie campus through a grant in 2015.
The AFDI was modeled after the Faculty Development Certification program at Valencia College.
Three additional campuses (Evansville, Richmond, and Terre Haute) developed an AFDI program modeled after the Muncie program.
BENEFITS:
Professional Development
Earn the designation of Associate Adjunct Faculty member with a name badge
Earn stipend each semester
Become part of a broader collaborative community made up of faculty members from your campus, college-wide and nation-wide
Acquire tools and training to help you develop as a great teacher
Take advantage of support and resources
Retention of Adjunct Faculty
Greater Retention of Students

3. Current State Faculty Development and Student Success
Faculty self-perception
Novice adjunct faculty
Increased student retention and success.
Participating faculty have expressed an appreciation of the ongoing professional development opportunities and believe they are more confident as teachers not just content experts.
Provides novice adjunct faculty many opportunities to strengthen their teaching and classroom management skills quickly.
Research studies have shown that course completion rates of participating instructors rose 3.6% from spring to semester to fall and that the participating group had an overall 2.5% higher completion rate than the rest of the college (Adjunct Faculty program at Fullerton College)

4. Future State of Adjunct Faculty Certification Institute
What is the Adjunct Faculty Certification Institute?
Benefits: Prof. Development, Rank, and Pay
AFCI is intended to be a state-wide vehicle for faculty professional development and will be housed in IvyLead.
AFCI is one part of a three part proposal that includes an adjunct rank system and a simplified and incentivized pay structure.
Adjunct Faculty will have to complete portions of AFCI to move along the rank structure (with other criteria).

5. Adjunct Faculty Certification Institute - Components
Teaching Strategies
Campus Resources
Assessment
Affective and Meta-Cognitive Domains
Personal Development
Teaching Strategies: Facilitates student learning of course objectives in a manner that is varied, supportive, engaging, and research-based.
Campus Resources: Aligns with Ivy Tech Community College’s resources, systems, and priorities.
Assessment: Assesses student learning regularly, accurately, and formatively.
Affective and Meta-Cognitive Domains: Addresses those student issues that impact learning beyond covering the course objectives.
Personal Development: Establishes a reflective, collegial, and continuous-improvement approach to the teaching profession.

6. Adjunct Faculty Certification Institute - Implementation
Currently loading existing AFDI into IvyLead
Submissions require one (1) page reflection on how the information will be incorporated into teaching at Ivy Tech.
Statewide team coming from original task force to oversee maintenance, additions, and acceptance of reflections.

7. Adjunct Faculty Certification Institute
All Faculty
Conferences
Statewide Library
All Faculty encouraged to participate.
Conference attendance can count toward AFCI units.
Conference attendees are asked to commit to “teach backs”.
Goal will be to build a library of professional development that can be shared state-wide.

8. IDEAS? Teaching Strategies Campus Resources Assessment
Affective and Meta-Cognitive Domains
Personal Development
Teaching Strategies: Facilitates student learning of course objectives in a manner that is varied, supportive, engaging, and research-based.
Campus Resources: Aligns with Ivy Tech Community College’s resources, systems, and priorities.
Assessment: Assesses student learning regularly, accurately, and formatively.
Affective and Meta-Cognitive Domains: Addresses those student issues that impact learning beyond covering the course objectives.
Personal Development: Establishes a reflective, collegial, and continuous-improvement approach to the teaching profession.

9. Presenters Heidi Giles – Bloomington - hwampler@ivytech.edu
Brandon Houston – Central Indiana –
Janet Swalls – Terre Haute –