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Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns
- NY Times, Nov 20, 2007. "Professors with tenure or who are on a tenure track are now a distinct minority on the countrys campuses, as the ranks of part-time instructors and professors hired on a contract have swelled, according to federal figures analyzed by the American Association of University Professors."
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Clash of Interests
- Inside Higher Ed. "Is a one-size-fits-all union best for everyone at the bargaining table? Adjuncts and full-time faculty members at two community colleges in southern California Grossmont and Cuyamaca Colleges, near San Diego are currently in battle mode over the question, and their contentions are highlighting an issue that is becoming of increasing concern to professors."
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New Book Offers Guide to Organizing Adjuncts
- "Part-time faculty members continue to be frustrated by their salaries, working conditions and general lack of job security. At the same time, some adjuncts have recently won victories on a variety of issues largely as a result of either unions or other organizations working on adjuncts behalf. A new book Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education (Monthly Review Press) offers a step-by-step guide on how adjuncts can organize and develop strategies to improve their working lives."
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Not Exploited
- Chronicle Careers, Decenber 10, 2004. " A Ph.D. who toiled in low-paid academic jobs for four years says he would rather be called a fool than a pawn. "
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The Rise of the Perma-Temp
- New York Times , August 4, 2002. " Spinning gold out of air has become instinctive for Ms. Bobrove, an adjunct professor who was paid $1,300 a course last academic year. She has no office (the windshield of her station wagon sports a sun reflector that reads 'Adjunct Office') and receives no benefits, though she has taught at Camden County for 20 years. The room where she alternately coaxes and goads literary insights, a sagging ceiling tile its only remarkable feature, is an apt metaphor for a low-overhead, no-frills academic career. "
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Professor of Desperation
- " Bad pay, zero job security, no benefits, endless commutes. Is this any way to treat PhDs responsible for teaching a generation of college students? " Sunday Washington Post Magazine, July 21, 2002.
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The long halls of ivy: Adjunct professors
- CNN, January 11, 2001. " How's this for the job not of your dreams: It typically requires an advanced degree, and a workweek somewhere in the 60-hour range, with work on weekends likely. The pay is low, there are no benefits, no job security. To get by, in the course of any given week, you'll likely have to commute to several, often widely-scattered job sites. At none of those places will you have an office -- or sometimes even a mailbox -- to call your own. "
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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
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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? "
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Casual in Blue: Yale and the Academic Labor Market
- An analysis of teaching at Yale. The findings: * 70% of the undergraduate teaching is performed by non-permanent teachers, graduate students, and instructors not on the tenure track. * The pool of graduate teachers has almost tripled in the last thirty years, while the number of tenure-track faculty has declined. * Yale has preferred to lower the rate of endowment spending rather than maintain or increase the size of its faculty.
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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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The Truth About Tenure in Higher Education
- A joint statement on tenure from the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.
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Facing Change: Building the Faculty of the Future
- A 1999 report of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities that calls for post-tenure review, more careful monitoring of sabbaticals, and for part time faculty to be paid at levels comparable to full time faculty. (Requires Adobe Acrobat)
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American Federation of Teachers Statement on Part-Time Faculty Employment
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Going Adjunct
- By Andreas Killen, Salon Magazine. " When all the postal workers have been sedated and locked away, will adjunct professors follow in their gun-powdered footsteps? "
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Association of University Teachers' Campaign Against Fixed-Term Positions
- " Staff on fixed-term contracts (ftcs) and hourly-paid part-time staff now comprise nearly 40% of all university ('old' and 'new') academic and academic-related staff. That percentage is rising steadily and some higher education institutions, such as the London School of Hygiene have stopped issuing any permanent contracts whatsoever. A key aspect of the campaign will be an onslaught against the use of waiver clauses under which staff are forced to sign away basic employment rights, including their right to statutory redundancy pay and their right to complain to a tribunal in the event of unfair dismissal. "
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Growth In Untenured Academic Science Jobs Seen Hurting Careers
- Franklin Hoke, The Scientist , Sept. 18, 1995
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The Tenure Debate -- Near and Afar
- An comprehensive set of articles and links assembled by the University of Minnesota.
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The Status of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
- AAUP report on the use of non-tenure-track appointments in academia.
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Some Implications of Tenure for the Profession and Society
- A defense of tenure from the AAUP.
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On Post-Tenure Review
- May 1997 report of the AAUP on post-tenure review.
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Tenure Remains Vital to Academic Freedom
- A defense of tenure by AAUP President James E. Perley from the April 4, 1997 Chronicle of Higher Education .
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The Growing Use of Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty
- A 1997 statement endorsed by the heads of eight disciplinary organizations, the American Association of University Professors, and the Community College Humanities Association on the growing use of part-time and adjunct faculty members.
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The Adjunct Advocate
- An online magazine for adjunct university professors.
