Enrollment for the iterations assessed in this paper was contingent upon teaching Biol18.
As we noted not long ago, a substantial number of these contingent academics teach STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects.
Moreover, disposable faculty members give academic administrators the flexibility they supposedly need to meet fluctuations in student demand, even though most contingent instructors teach required introductory courses like freshman composition and remedial math.
Parent-infant interactions and contingent responsiveness during teaching and feeding, and infant cognitive development were assessed when infants completed the program.
"I'm not surprised that introductory classes might be better taught by contingent faculty members simply because most tenured faculty more often teach advanced courses.
Baldwin and Wawrzynski (2011) posited that there is sufficient evidence to merit concern about the teaching quality of contingent instructors, and they are proponents of targeted professional development strategies for different types of contingent instructors.
Rev. Robert A. Sirico, a Catholic priest and the author of "Defending the Free Market," says that the importance of unions in Catholic teaching is historically contingent.
He says that when they made the offer to buy FamilyLeaf earlier this year, it was contingent on the FamilyLeaf team teaching them everything they had learned over the course of running the startup, which was launched early last year.
