Changing Roles, Improved Conditions for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty.

The article explores the ways on how to address issues concerning instructional quality and equity as universities increase their reliance on part-time and non-tenure-tract faculty. It suggests integrating non-tenure-track faculty into the culture of the department and institution. It highlights how the composition program makes such cultural change in the English department of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. The program relies more heavily on non-tenure-track faculty for teaching composition, wherein their teaching loads have gone from four-four to three-three. Director Georgia Rhoades of the Writing Across Curriculum (WAC) program notes that none of their non-tenure-track instructors were fully employed in 1998 and only two have taught at three-quarter time.