Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Faculty at Mercy University

These pages provide information on support and benefits for adjunct faculty.

In addition, these pages provide information regarding Mercy’s collective bargaining with SEIU. The University's 2022 contract with SEIU is available here.

Professional Development

Mercy University provides professional development to all faculty (without distinction between full-time and part-time) across all schools and disciplines in various forms.  To learn more about the resources that the Center for Teaching and Learning provides visit their dedicated webpage at: https://www.mercy.edu/academics/faculty-resources/center-teaching-and-learning

Mercy University provides Blackboard training and support for all of full-time and part-time Faculty.

Click here to learn more: https://www.mercy.edu/academics/faculty-resources/blackboard-resources-faculty

Click here to use the Online Scheduler, Calendly, which describes each of the Blackboard Workshops from Basic to more Advanced Topics:  https://calendly.com/blackboardtraining

Mercy University Libraries provide pivotal support to all faculty both full-time and part-time.  

Mercy University Libraries offer support to faculty in all areas of their scholarly endeavors - teaching, scholarship, and service. We provide information literacy sessions as requested, both general and course-specific, support for your publishing, as well as collaborate on best outcomes for students. Additionally, we provide collection development support for adequate and current curricula needs.

To learn more about these resources visit: https://libguides.mercy.edu/faculty-support 

Benefits

As a Mercy University employee, your wellbeing is always the upmost of importance to us, we are pleased to announce that you now have the following benefits available to you! Many of these benefits can be added at any point in the year, and include:

Available from Allstate, this benefit offers much more than just monitoring your credit – from monitoring online activity, financial transactions to online activity and more.

We’ve partnered up with Shipt to offer a safe and convenient way for employees to get their groceries and necessities delivered on demand. Employees will receive a 50% discount on their annual Shipt membership and free shipping on all orders of $35 or more.

Available through ScriptSave WellRx Premier, employees have access to a free pharmacy discount program that allows you to receive discounts for you, your loved ones (furry 4-legged friends too) on a wide variety of prescriptions with savings averaging 60% and can even be 80% or more. 

TurboTax is one of the most used online tax preparation service, we are pleased to announce as a Mercy employee, you now have access to specialized savings to prepare your taxes this year, be sure to access TurboTax via the Shops & Offers so that the discount is applied on your tax filing this year. 

We offer several insurance plans at discounted rates with Liberty Mutual and Bristol West Auto Insurance Companies. You can find exclusive rates that are available just for Mercy University employees for Auto, Home, Renters, Boat, RV and even Condo coverage.

You also have access to pet insurance from Nationwide Pet Insurance as well, which provides you with 50%,70% or 90% reimbursement based on the tier of coverage you select and can cover cats, dogs, avian and exotic pets too! Pet insurance covers the unexpected expenses (emergencies, etc.) but also planned expenses too such as flea/tick, routine visits/immunizations and more!

Employees can enroll in three easy ways: 

1) Follow the above link to the dedicated page 

2) Visit www.PetsNationwide.com, then enter our organization name and you will be redirected to the dedicated webpage 

3) Or call 877-738-7874, and mention that you are an employee of Mercy  University, and you will receive a discount on your policy 

*Non-payroll deduction. 

  • The ID# to sign up is: 99032075 

  • For Staff and Students: 

  • Click "Apple in Education", and search for "Mercy University" via the "Shop for your School" button