"The Adjunct Faculty Are Our Lifeblood" An Institution's Response to Deliver Value to Volunteer Community Faculty.

Background And Objectives: Because of the importance of and increasing competition for unpaid community faculty's time, we qualitatively evaluated the adjunct community faculty experience in order to identify mechanisms to improve the recruitment, training, and retention of these faculty members.

Methods: The authors captured community faculty and key stakeholder opinion through interviews, focus groups, and a survey to elucidate their perspective of roles, responsibilities, facilitators, and barriers for providing quality teaching and learning experiences. After evaluating the data, we created an impact/effort matrix to guide suggested changes.