faculty labor

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• SOURCE: Contingent
  1/7/2023
  

  A Profession, If You Can Keep It

  by Erin Bartram

  "Let’s be clear: this “burnout” that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be.... You are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."

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• SOURCE: Substack
  11/17/2022
  

  Tenured Faculty are the 18% – What Will They Do for the 82?

  by Claire Potter

  "Go to any faculty meeting, and you will hear what the 18% really believes: that if contract and contingent faculty deserved tenure-stream positions, they would have them."

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• SOURCE: Against the Current
  8/15/2022
  

  Faculty Need Labor Organizing, Not Shared Governance

  by Eva Cherniavsky

  "Beyond the walls of the academy, where the default vision of the college professor is (still) that of an over-educated, privileged elite reveling in the outrageous luxury of career-long job security, no one at all is much concerned with the erosion of faculty power. Yet they should be."

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• SOURCE: Slate
  7/27/2022
  

  Young Faculty Refusing the "Free Labor" Their Predecessors Performed Have Their Reasons

  by John Warner

  Faculty used to operate in a gift economy of unpaid labor supporting peer review, journal editing, and writing letters for tenure reviews. Now that institutions have withdrawn the possibility of that work being cashed in for job security, why should any faculty bother with it? 

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• SOURCE: Elle
  12/15/2021
  

  The Secret Lives Of Adjunct Professors

  by Gila Berryman

  "What kind of role model was I? I was a Black woman teaching working-class Black and brown students the importance of learning to write clearly so they could get a good job, yet I couldn’t support myself on my own salary."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/8/2021
  

  I'll Retire if My University Pledges to Replace Me

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Can senior professors contribute to solving the academic jobs crisis by tying their retirement to pledges by universities to replace them with tenure-track faculty? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/20/2021
  

  Fights over Tenure Aren't About Tenure

  by Molly Worthen

  "The fight over tenure is not really about tenure. It’s a proxy for a larger debate about the meaning of academic freedom and the priorities of higher education." If academics want to successfully protect tenure, they must engage the culture war battle, too. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/26/2020
  

  History Jobs Stabilized Before COVID-19

  The American Historical Association's pre-COVID numbers on the job market for history PhDs showed a small increase in the number of history faculty positions. It can be assumed that that stability is now gone. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/4/2021
  

  Irreplaceable: Illinois Supreme Court Says Community Colleges Can't Lay Off Faculty and Replace with Adjuncts

  “To say that someone isn’t capable of earning seniority and therefore they don’t fall within the definition of someone who has less seniority doesn’t really make sense.”

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  6/8/2020
  

  Hundreds of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Face Losing Their Jobs. Their Students Are Upset.

  One Harvard student says that these faculty members "help us grow as people, as thinkers, as learners" and are "integral" to their education.