Department Chairs
One of the goals of the Office of Adjunct Faculty Support Programs is to help build stronger relationships between adjunct faculty and their departments. Valuable information can be found in the Adjunct Faculty Handbook.
The Office of Adjunct Faculty Support Programs has compiled a list using the Department Chair Online Resource Center (American Council on Education) of Best Practices for Department Chairs to consult when deciding how to care for Adjunct Faculty. The following PDF summarizes the Best Practices, which were adapted from "10 Things You Can Do to Retain Your Best Adjuncts" by Robert Kelly.
Several resources are available in the links below that offer Department Chairs detailed reading on the Best Practices and other areas of interest from the Department Chair Online Resource Center:
Department Strategies for Avoiding the Abuse of Part-Time Instructors
Part-Time, Adjunct, and Temporary Faculty: The New Majority
How to Make Part-Timers a Part of Your Program's Success
Win-Win: Providing Support to Adjunct Faculty
Recruiting, Developing, Retaining Adjuncts
Integrating Part-Time Instructional Faculty Members into the Department
Considerations in Recruiting Part-time Faculty