Papers from the Spring 2002 Issue of Inquiry

Adventures in Learning By Kay Robertson	A member of John Tyler Community College’s support staff recounts her experience with an educational exchange to Broxtowe College, and she offers advice for those who would follow her lead.
A Recipe for Support Staff Professional Development By Vickie Hash	Hash describes a day of support staff professional development and the characteristics that guaranteed its success.
Managing Teaching Loads—And Finding Time For Reflection And Renewal By Rosalyn M. King	Teaching is a demanding profession that can impact the time and energy of its practitioners. King highlights suggestions from the research literature which can help faculty manage their personal and professional lives.
Impediments to Minority Student Learning By Carmen Marshall	This study examines the kinds of images minority students find in their textbooks and explores the connection between these images and minority students’ sense of self, learning and career choices.
Viewpoints This new column welcomes diverse opinions on topics of concern to VCCS faculty, staff, administrators, and students. In each issue of Inquiry, we will pose a question that invites a variety of responses and publish several of these in the following issue of the journal.
The Role of Adjunct Faculty in the Community College By Ronald B. Head	Adjunct faculty are critical to achieving the community college mission.
Facilitating Adjunct Development By Debbie Naquin	The VCCS could improve its overall instructional environment and increase its institutional effectiveness by providing professional development for current adjuncts.
Putting the Permanent in Part-Time By John Paden	The Virginia Community College System should establish a new category of employment for adjunct faculty—permanent part-time.
Adjuncts: Fill-ins or Replacements? By Gayle Taylor	The Virginia Community College System needs adjuncts for many reasons.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Faculty By Patrick Tompkins	Tompkins offers suggestions for improving the treatment and service of adjunct faculty.
Intruder in the Dust? By Brian Wright	Wright compares the twenty-first century adjunct faculty member to the nineteenth-century sharecropper.
Philosophy of Teaching By John G. Wuchenich	Wuchenich offers a poetic explanation for why he teaches.
The Role Of Community Colleges in Training Arborists to Care For Virginia’s Urban Forests By Joseph Murray	Blue Ridge Community College offers many resources for urban forestry, including a career study certificate program slated to begin Fall Semester 2002.
Experiencing the “Community” in Community College Teaching Through Mural Making By Ellen Elmes	An art instructor narrates the genesis, creation, and effects of two community murals.

Volume 7, Number 1 Spring 2002

Viewpoints

Volume 7, Number 1
Spring 2002