The last blog post was on adjunct instructors returning to school for another or higher degree. Even if you decide not to return to school at the moment or have advanced as high as you want to with your degrees, it's important for faculty to be active yearly in other forms of academic development and growth for several reasons.

Research indicates that adjunct faculty often feel isolated and marginalized in higher education (Dolan, 2011; Mueller, Mandernach, & Sanderson, 2013; Webb, Wong,…