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Show cll The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Sunday,June 20, 1999 With budgetconstraints forcing colleges acrossthe country to rely on part-time professors, Salt Lake City’s Westminster College hopes to becomea national model on howto best cope withthesituation. The private, 2,500-student school has won a $384,000 grant from the New York City-based Teagle Foundation to create a program that will try to ensure students receive the same quality education from part-timeinstructors as they do from full-time faculty. “When peoplego to small colleges they expect to relate with faculty and expect faculty to spend time with them,”said Stephen Baar, Westminster's vice president for academic affairs. It's sometimes difficult for associate instructors to spend that kind oftime.” Baar ; said W ve typicallyrelies on “associate faculty” for ry. “They [associate faculty] have become an importantpart of what we do,”said The problem is ‘part timers often have full-time jobs off cam- pus, andthatlimits the amountof time they can spend with stu- dents. Turnoveris also a concern. “Thereis always an adjustment period whenever you arrive somewhere new,” said Baar. “We're looking at makingthat adjustment happen a little more quickly and cleanly.” then intends to share whatit has developed at education conventions across the country. “Our board was enthusiastic about Westminster's proposal be- cause it deals with faculty developmentissues that many colleges and universities face but none, so far as we know, is addressing,” said Richard Kimball, president of the Teagle Foundation. “What is learned from our grantcould be of enormous value to higher education generally, evenasit enhancesthetotal edu- Baarsaid the schoolwill use the grantto create a new position that will oversee the associate instruc- ster,” he said. tor program. Thegoal is to develop a standardized, collegewide system for recruiting, orienting, The private Teagle Foundation was established in 1944 by Walter C. Teagle, longtimepresident and educating, evaluating and retaining associate faculty. He said Westminster also in- tends to create a mentor program to link associates with full-time faculty one-fourthofits classes, a figure members. Westminster cational experience at Westmin- chairman of the board of Stan- dard Oil Company. The foundation provides grants to strengthen private higher education, with a primary emphasis on small liberal arts colleges. DIAMONDS that has remained constant over SHAPE WEIGHT GRADE PRICE recent years. Salt Lake Community College, by comparison, uses part-time faculty for 60 percent ofits class- es. Orem's Utah Valley State College uses part-time faculty for Marquise Marquise Princess Princess Round Round «31 1.00 43 76 ct. ct. ct. ct. sn sis T sn G VS1G snow su F $ 552 $3,332 $8 625 $2,466 $ 985 $2,675 nearly halfof its classes. 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