Element 6C: Personnel
The unit is of sufficient size to assure the consistent delivery and quality of each program offered (see Table 6-12).  As of Fall 2006, there were 62 tenure track full-time faculty members, 36 full-time professional staff, and 11 full-time administrators.  The unit is currently conducting searches for 13 (10 new) full-time tenure track faculty positions.  Thirty-eight graduate assistants are also employed by the unit.  Graduate assistants do not have teaching responsibilities; they provide support to the academic programs. 

As noted in Standard 5, the contractual faculty workload at Adelphi University is 18 credits.  This workload was reduced from 21 credits in 2005.  The faculty contract does not differentiate between graduate and undergraduate faculty.  In addition, student teaching with seminar increased from 3 to workload 6 credits in 2005.  The University also grants release time for those faculty wishing to pursue research interests.

Advising candidates is considered on-load work without reassigned time, but faculty program directors get three to six credits of reassigned time per year depending on the size of the program. In 2005, Health and Physical Education received a total of 18 credits of released time; Communication Science and Disorders received a total of 15 credits; and Curriculum and Instruction (the three departments of Adolescence and Cultural Studies, Childhood and Leadership Studies, and Literacy and Special Education) received a total of 54 credits.  There are two full-time advisors at the Garden City main campus and one at the Manhattan campus.  To support the full-time director of the STEP program, candidates can be dual-advised by an Arts and Science faculty member representing their content major and by a faculty member from the unit for the professional education component of their program.

During the past two years, the faculty and administration have supported an effort to decrease the number of adjunct faculty and increase adjuncts' integration into the programs (see Exhibit S6-15 for course schedules and full-time to part-time faculty ratios).  Two adjunct faculty members participate and vote at full faculty meetings; this policy began in Fall 2005. Program directors and administrators meet regularly with adjunct faculty to coordinate activities, network, and update information at both Garden City and the Manhattan Center.  Exhibit S6-15 offers examples of the adjunct meetings.

Clinical supervisors come to campus once a month for staff development workshops on issues/topics that they have identified together with full-time staff.  They participate in committee work, advisory groups, and other professional development activities and are mentored by full-time faculty and staff.  Part-time faculty members have become increasingly involved in professional development since the adoption of College.Livetext as the electronic software program to support the unit assessment system.