ABSTRACT
As social work professional education requires both academic preparation and semester-long student field placements in social service, mental health, and policy-based organizations, recruiting talented field instructors from these agencies and programs as possible prospective adjunct faculty can provide an added benefit. Adjunct faculty have often been considered “invisible”—they go and come when other faculty are not on campus and may not be known even when they appear at faculty functions. Adjunct faculty salaries, nationwide, remain a difficult, challenging problem. Training was the most important cornerstone of the adjunct support program begun in 2002—and it remains so. Although adjunct instructors in all domains are hired because of their highly regarded practice or policy expertise in the subject area, they often have had little or no teaching experience.
