Restructuring of the Professoriate

Tenure Reform

The Adjunctification of Academia

Gone for Good : Tales of University Life After the Golden Age: by Stuart Rojstaczer. A Duke professor's look at some of the unpleasant realities of the modern research university. "To get tenure and be respected at my university, I had been required to abandon my ideals, lower my standards in the classroom, and lower my own expectations of intellectual achievement. I looked at my colleagues at Duke and elsewhere, and almost all of them were doing the same. I was dismayed." $15.40 from Amazon.com
The Graying Professoriate -- a Chronicle of Higher Ed colloquy: "Is the aging of the American professoriate a problem for higher education? What, if anything, should colleges do about their aging faculties?"
The Vanishing Professor: American Federation of Teachers, Higher Education Department, 1999. "...no issue, none whatsoever, arouses more concern among our members than the erosion of full-time tenure track faculty positions and their replacement by a growing, and exploited, army of part-time and other non tenure-track faculty. This publication is intended to help affiliates who want to take positive and effective action on both fronts: to curb the loss of full-time jobs on campus and to improve conditions for part-time faculty and other contingent academic workers."

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