SPRING 2003 ADJUNCT FACULTY ORIENTATION
SPECIAL EDITION

To all GCC Adjunct Faculty:

I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!

My name is Jim Hamilton and I am your adjunct faculty representative on the President's Advisory Committee (PAC) at GCC.  For the first time, adjunct faculty now have a voice at the executive level in order to address the concerns that are unique to those of us who only have a part-time affiliation with the college.  If you're like most adjuncts, you probably have another job (or two) and, more than likely, don't have a lot of extra time on your hands to help me with the input I need to properly do my job representing you.  However, busy or not, I really need to hear from you!  I need to find out what GCC can do to help you do your job better ... to either enhance the learning experience for your students or to enhance your ability to educate ... or both.  I need specifics as well as generalities that I can then use as a basis for presenting our combined needs to the PAC for consideration.  But I can't do this without hearing from all of you!  So please take a few moments and let me know your thoughts, ideas, and concerns.  You can call me at 623-845-3518 (if I'm not in, please leave a message) or you can write to me at:

jim.hamilton@gcmail.maricopa.edu

NOTE:  Please be assured that anything I receive will not pass beyond me without your express permission.

CHECK OUT THE NEW ADJUNCT FACULTY WEB-SITE!

There's a brand new web-site that has been developed exclusively for the adjunct faculty at GCC.  In one convenient location, you will find a plethora of information that will provide answers to most (if not all) of your questions as well as many handy ideas and tips for making your professional life a whole lot easier.

You will find this veritable cornucopia of information at:

http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/adjunct/
Check it out and see what's now available for you on-line!  If you don't find what you're looking for, or have any comments or suggestions, please take a few moments to let us know by using the feedback link located in the lower right-hand corner of each web page.

This is the first time that an overall orientation has been held specifically for adjunct faculty and I hope that you have found it as interesting and informative as I have.  I would like to hear what each of you thought about it as well as any ideas that you might have to make it better the next time around (each of the subsequent orientations will be for newly-hired adjunct faculty only).  In order to help us all stay in touch electronically, I've created a distribution list (dl-gc-adjunct@gcmail.maricopa.edu) that any of us can use to easily communicate with all the others (i.e., sending e-mail to this address automatically forwards a copy to everyone on the list).  If you'd like to have your e-mail address added to this list so that you'll be "in-the-loop," please let me know and I'll be happy to take care of it.  Here's to our best semester yet at GCC!
jim.hamilton@gcmail.maricopa.edu (623-845-3518)