Abstract
Numerous academic research studies have been completed during the past decade on differences between full time, tenure track faculty members and their often lower-on-the-food- chain counterparts, adjunct faculty. While most of this research has shown slight differences in attitudes regarding the university, none have expressly tested their perception differences towards students. For the purposes of this research, all North Carolina Masters of Public Administration (MPA) and Masters of Public Policy (MPP) faculty were contacted at both public and private institutions. Each faculty member was sent a 20 question survey with demographic, attitude, and teaching methods questions. These surveys were compiled and analyzed through Qualtrics survey software and SPSS. In North Carolina, there is some support for perceptive differences between adjunct and full time faculty. Specifically speaking, the strongest correlation exists between the in-service adjuncts, who are also engaged in employment outside the academic arena and their full time academic counterparts in their perception of readiness of students graduating from MPA/MPP programs.
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