ABSTRACT
The Center for Community Education in 1972 and the Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning (CCEDL) in 2000 supported the development of a new type of hybrid faculty that was steeped in the values of critical theory. The facilitator-practitioners brought the real world into the CCEDL classroom and served as the central pool of intellectual capital for the CCEDL. Management of and support of affiliated faculty was in the purview of the CCEDL associate dean. The CCEDL borrowed curricula and courses from the traditional Elizabethtown College (EC) programs. Significantly, all learning modules were work done for hire and were the property of EC and the CCEDL. The development of a new Continuing Education faculty model – affiliated faculty – allowed the CCEDL to exhibit that its faculty was a center of power, politics, critical theory, and legitimacy. CCEDL affiliated faculty are conduits of and implementers of critical theory and its associated tasks.
