Sustained Professional Development for VITAL Faculty: Engagement and Benefits
KC Culver, Benjamin Selznick & Adrianna Kezar
Pullias Center for Higher Education (2025)
This report provides insights into VITAL faculty members’ engagement in sustained professional development (SPD) programs, such as faculty learning communities. Throughout the report, we examine…
Charting Pathways of Intellectual Leadership for VITAL Faculty at Michigan State University’s College of Arts & Letters
Barielnen Vita and KC Culver
Delphi Award Winner, 2024
At Michigan State University (MSU), a public research institution and a member of the Big Ten Academic Alliance and AAU, the College of Arts &…
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Model: A Comprehensive Strategy for Enhancing VITAL Faculty Work Environments and Student Outcomes
Natsumi Ueda and Adrianna Kezar
Delphi Award Winner, 2024
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMA), a public research university, has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to improving working conditions for VITAL faculty with a 20-year…
San Jacinto College: Support and Success for Part-time Faculty
Barielnen Vita and KC Culver
Delphi Award Finalist, 2024
San Jacinto College (SJC) is a large, two-year, public community college located in Texas, serving a diverse student body with more than 64% identifying as…
The University of Delaware CT Caucus: Grassroots Collective to Foster Institutional Change
KC Culver
Delphi Award Finalist, 2024
Over the past nine years, CTF have accounted for steadily increasing share of total faculty, from 19% in 2015 to 26% in 2023. CTF serve…
Exploring New Horizons for Designing Sustained Professional Development for VITAL Faculty
Adrianna Kezar and KC Culver
Pullias Center for Higher Education (2024)
This report analyzes the design process that campus teams use to create sustained professional development (SPD) programs such as faculty learning communities for VITAL faculty.…
Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments (FACE) Pilot Study and Field Test Report
John W. Curtis, Emily R. Koren, Adrianna Kezar, KC Culver, Caren Arbeit and Nicole McDermott Tate
Pullias Center for Higher Education (2024)
This report describes the two-year pilot study of how best to create a national study of faculty working at non-profit colleges and universities of all…
Faculty, Academic Careers, and Environments (FACE) Conceptual Framework Report
KC Culver, Adrianna Kezar, Emily R. Koren and John W. Curtis
Pullias Center for Higher Education (2024)
The purpose of the Faculty, Academic Careers and Environments (FACE) project is to understand who faculty are, what their academic careers look like, and how…
The Role of Academic Affairs in Supporting VITAL Faculty on Campus
Adrianna Kezar and KC Culver
Pullias Center for Higher Education (2024)
n this brief, we argue that creating avenues to support VITAL faculty is an essential role for leaders within academic affairs, and particularly those in…
What is the Employee Value Proposition for Contingent/VITAL Faculty?
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, TIAA Institute, 2024
This brief, authored by Adrianna Kezar and KC Culver, considers extending TIAA Institute's Employee Value Proposition (EVP) from professional staff in higher education to contingent…
