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CONCERNS OF HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY MEMBERS REGARDING PARTICIPATION IN THE INSTRUCTION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES
Abstract
Full time faculty members of the University of Nebraska, Omaha were surveyed using the Concerns Based Adoption Model to determine their concerns regarding their involvement or potential involvement in the instruction of noncredit continuing education courses. This study was concerned with analyzing those factors inhibiting faculty participation in continuing education. These identified concerns and other demographic factors (age, tenure status, experience in continuing education, experience in higher education, and university college) provided information regarding reasons for non-participation in the instruction of continuing education courses. The overall assessment indicated that those faculty members having experience in continuing education were relatively unconcerned about continuing education instruction at this time. These faculty members were concerned about revising the existing form of continuing education instruction. Faculty members having no experience with continuing education instruction were intensely concerned about their potential instruction and about obtaining information regarding such instruction. In regards to the effect of the identified demographic factors on the concerns of faculty members, these factors revealed relatively few areas of significant difference or actual effect. Experience in the instruction of continuing education courses appeared to be the factor most affecting the concerns of faculty members. For those faculty members with some previous experience with continuing education instruction, discouraging factors seem to be involvement in more important activities, improper rewards, promotion and tenure considerations, demanding organizational requirements, lack of sufficient time to prepare and teaching the non-traditional student. For those faculty members with no prior experience with continuing education, factors discouraging their involvement appear to be lack of encouragement from significant others, lack of information, tenure status, improper rewards, time commitments and perceived lack of resources. Intervention strategies to encourage faculty member participation in continuing education instruction were also considered.
Subject Area
Adult education|Continuing education
Recommended Citation
CATES, DEBRA MANESS, "CONCERNS OF HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY MEMBERS REGARDING PARTICIPATION IN THE INSTRUCTION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES" (1984). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8423767.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8423767