eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2016-06-06 4 8 637 647 10.12691/education-4-8-9 EDUCATION2016489 article K. Garth-James kgarthjames@ndnu.edu 1 School of Business Management, Notre Dame de Namur University, California, USA The growing use of adjunct faculty in higher education has drawn its share of criticism. However, it is not necessarily bad to make use of the Adjunct Faculty Model (AFM) to support institutional mission and goals. This research uses content analysis to explore issues regarding how to precisely define the AFM as well as implementation and implications for faculty job satisfaction linked to student learning, which academic leadership (college deans, department chairs, directors) want to know. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/4/8/9/education-4-8-9.pdf adjunct faculty higher education professoriates part-time instructors