University of New England

Benefits Package

The College of Health Professions (CHP) is pleased to offer a benefit package designed for unpaid adjunct community faculty who serve the various academic units within CHP through their high quality teaching in the field and clinical rotations sites. The current benefit package includes:

• Free access to library services
• Free use of the Finley Recreational Center facilities
• Access to credit and continuing education courses at a 50% rate with a limit of one course per year on a space available basis as described in the UNE Personnel Handbook.
• Periodic training sessions for adjunct community faculty
• Letter of appointment from the College of Health Professions' dean recognizing the unpaid faculty appointment

The following is a brief overview of each of the stated benefits:

Library Services

The Jack S. Ketchum Library on the University Campus (UC) in Biddeford and the Josephine S. Abplanalp '45 Library on the Westbrook College Campus (WCC) in Portland provide adjunct community faculty with access to a variety of services including:

• Remote access to databases and online catalog
• ebooks, ejournals, enewspapers, eforms
• Over 22,000 print and electronic full text journal titles
• Public access computers
• Reference, research, and literature search assistance
• Staff including ten professional librarians and six library technical assistants
• DVDs, videos, compact discs, CD-ROMs, and audio cassettes

Finley Recreational Facility

The Beverly Burpee Finley Recreation Center includes a 11,000-square-foot gymnasium, fitness center, multi-purpose room and complete locker facilities including: showers, lockers, and hair dryers. Recreational activities include basketball, volleyball, baseball, softball, and indoor tennis. 

The 1,500-square-foot fitness center is found on the second floor of the facility, overlooking the gymnasium. The fitness center is equipped with 1,760 pounds of dumbbells and 1, 325 pounds of free weights. In addition, the fitness center also has two treadmills, five elliptical trainers, various stationary cycles, and a complete circuit of Cybex strength training equipment and free weights.  Other services available by appointment include fitness assessments, fitness prescriptions, body composition testing, blood pressure screening and equipment orientations.  Classes offered include pilates, body sculpting, yoga, and spinning.

Credit and Continuing Education Courses

Undergraduate, medical, and graduate credit courses, as well as noncredit continuing education workshops and seminars offered by the University are open to adjunct community faculty who have supervised UNE students matriculated in CHP degree programs.  Eligible individuals must apply and register in the normal fashion within designated time periods. Admittance into the course or program will be on a space available basis.  Tuition for both credit and noncredit offerings is 50% of the normal rate. 

Training Sessions

The Field Instructors and Preceptors Committee (FIP) of CHP offers training sessions that are free of charge to all adjunct community faculty.  The topic of the training sessions, diverse in scope, however, typically relate to issues surrounding the clinical training of students or the delivery of health care/social services.  Formal announcements promoting the offerings are sent to participating clinical sites approximately six weeks in advance.

Letter of Appointment

Adjunct community faculty can request a formal letter of appointment from the Dean of the College of Health Professions.  The letter formally signifies the clinician’s involvement with the College of Health Professions and is a wonderful example of professional service to an external audience.

The University is indebted to the exceptional work of our clinical community.  We view the creation of a formal benefits package to be an important example of our commitment to this valuable group of health care providers.  We hope in the future we will continue to expand the scope of the benefits package to further address the unique professional development needs of our adjunct community faculty.  We look forward to working with you in the future to collectively educate future health care providers.

Utilization of the Benefits Package

Each department within the College of Health Professions has specific qualifying criteria to be eligible to utilize the benefits package.  Please contact the clinical coordinator in your respective discipline to receive additional information.

In order to utilize the benefits package each adjunct community faculty member will need to provide the clinical coordinator with the following information:

Name including middle initial, date of birth, site name and address, phone, email.

Once the information is received by the clinical coordinator a special identification card will be made by security which will enable adjunct community faculty to utilize the benefits package.