This general handbook is designed to assist adjunct faculty in their role as instructors at The College of New Jersey. Individual schools and departments may have specific procedures for their academic areas and their own departmental handbooks. Adjunct faculty should consult the chairperson of their department for specific details. In addition, each department’s staff is there to ensure smooth running of individual departments. Adjunct faculty are encouraged to consult with their department for help with administrative needs.
Academic Affairs and the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offer an online Adjunct Faculty Orientation. It includes a wealth of helpful information, as well as interviews with long-time adjunct instructors and greetings from senior leadership.
For Adjunct Faculty
The College of New Jersey is committed to academic excellence. Your contribution to this mission is enhanced by extensive communication with both the department chair and other faculty in the department. Adjunct faculty are encouraged to discuss issues such as: the background/prerequisites students are expected to have, the courses they will take after completing your course, and departmental standards for student performance.
Campus Supports and Offices
The supports and offices highlighted below are particularly relevant to adjunct faculty, though they are not intended to be an exhaustive list. Refer to the complete list of TCNJ Offices for more information.
Accessibility Resource Center
The Accessibility Resource Center (ARC) collaborates with students, faculty, staff, and guests to advance access within the campus community and to further extend both the mission of The College of New Jersey and the mission of the Division of Inclusive Excellence to persons with disabilities. As part of this effort, ARC promotes awareness of disability as a facet of diversity, with underpinnings of collaborative efforts being rooted in social justice.
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Consistent with the mission of The College of New Jersey, the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning fosters a dynamic and transformative educational experience by providing resources, opportunities, and strategies that support the teacher-scholar model and enhance student-centered learning in the classroom and beyond.
Center for Student Success
The Center for Student Success was established to provide all students with access to personalized coaching and advisement with the goal of strengthening their academic performance and promoting student success and retention. The staff is dedicated to the academic success and development of the “whole student.”
College Core
The College Core (formerly The Liberal Learning Program) is a shared undergraduate academic experience designed to ensure that all TCNJ graduates have the essential skills, knowledge, and values needed to be successful and fulfilled in their personal, professional, intellectual, and civic lives.
Counseling and Prevention Services (CAPS)
Counseling and Prevention Services (CAPS) encourages students to attend to their academic, personal, physical, interpersonal, social, or spiritual needs, and provides a safe, confidential, and supportive environment for them to do so. CAPS is accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services, Inc.
Human Resources
The Office of Human Resources can answer many employment-related questions for adjunct faculty.
Information Technology
The Information Technology teams protect and support TCNJ’s network, enterprise systems, hardware, software, telephones, and technology for classrooms, research, and business operations.
R. Barbara Gitenstein Library
The R. Barbara Gitenstein Library, in support of the College’s mission, provides high-quality information resources, expertise, and a learning environment that enhance the search for knowledge and understanding. The Library serves as an intellectual, cultural, and social center for the College, empowering TCNJ community members to become self-directed, lifelong learners and responsible citizens.
TCNJ Cares
The TCNJ Cares program works extensively with individual students and campus and community partners to ensure that our students are connected to the resources to develop new skills in navigating challenging experiences and to ultimately meet their goals.
Tutoring Center
The Tutoring Center provides services that facilitate TCNJ students’ learning and persistence as they meet academic challenges throughout their careers. Trained in principles and practices of International College Reading and Learning Association certification, peer tutors assist students in mastering course content and developing learning skills, including problem-solving, analytical reading, writing researched arguments, oral presentation techniques, test-taking strategies, and time management.