adjunct professors

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• SOURCE: Academe
  2/6/2023
  

  The End of Tenure and the Transformation of Higher Ed

  by Marc Stein

  The decline in "tenure density"—the proportion of faculty in tenured or tenure-track jobs—is a dire threat to American higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  2/1/2023
  

  We've Reached the Execution Stage of the Profession's Demise

  by Jacques Berlinerblau

  "The decisions which ravaged the future for coming generations of Ph.D.s were made not just by consultants and suits, but by those with Ph.D.s and likely a few peer-reviewed publications. This was scholar-on-scholar violence."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/14/2023
  

  Why Are We Arguing About History But Letting the Profession Die?

  by Daniel Bessner

  If nobody can expect to earn a decent living researching and writing history, then vast swaths of our past will be unknown to the future, and the history that is written will suit the whims of the rich hobbyists who can afford to do the work. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/9/2023
  

  The Hamline Fiasco is no Isolated Incident

  by David M. Perry

  The key issues at stake in the dismissal of an adjunct art history professor for showing a reverential image of the Prophet Muhammad aren't about campus culture or religious freedom. They're about administrative power and labor relations in modern academia. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  12/29/2022
  

  Most of All, Hamline's Decision Offends Me as a Muslim

  by Amna Khalid

  Hamline University, in firing an art history instructor for showing an image of the Prophet Muhammad (with a content warning, in an optional exercise), has not only exemplified how risk-averse bureaucracies use inclusive language to dismiss faculty expertise, it also insulted Muslims by associating a vast and diverse set of cultures with fundamentalist theology. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/13/2022
  

  Is a College Progressive if Instructors Make Poverty Wages?

  At the New School (as well as at image-minded companies like Starbucks) an educated workforce and a progressive clientele increasingly expects management's treatment of workers to match its stated values, writes Post columnist Helaine Olen. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/6/2022
  

  New School's Adjuncts Demand Better Pay in Increasingly Acrimonious Strike

  The institution's historical left-leaning roots are coming into conflict with the New School administration's efforts to shift teaching labor to temporary, adjunct and contingent faculty and intransigence in bargaining with their union. 

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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: Inside Higher Ed
  10/12/2021
  

  "The Chair" Creator: How to Fight Adjunctification

  by Annie Julia Wyman

  "The academic job market had collapsed -- indeed, it has been collapsing for more than a decade. Even L.A., where people famously go to get their dreams stomped on, seemed like a better bet."

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  9/17/2021
  

  Adjunct Professors Need a Better Ground Game

  by Mia Brett

  If universities aren’t going to invest in tenure track teaching lines, then we need to make sure that they participate in and support the professionalization of adjuncts. Statewide adjunct unionization may be the way to make that happen. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  8/4/2021
  

  How to Cure Colleges’ Adjunct Addiction

  by Holly Brewer

  "Rather than bring absurd administrative costs under control, administrators are going after the university’s core function by opting to hire the cheapest possible teachers." The solution is a government floor on instructor pay and a ceiling on the number of adjuncts a university can employ.

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  4/30/2021
  

  The Real ‘Second-Class Citizens’ Of Academia

  by Donald Earl Collins

  Cornel West's complaints of being treated like a second-class citizen by Harvard may reflect disrespectful treatment. But thousands of adjunct professors experience worse as a matter of routine on the front lines of American universities. 

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• SOURCE: Medium
  5/4/2021
  

  Adjunctification is the Ultimate “Cancel Culture”

  by L.D. Burnett

  What's impeding free debate and discussion in college classrooms? It's not the power of the faculty, but their weakness and vulnerability to being fired. 

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• SOURCE: Kaiser Health News
  7/23/2020
  

  Adjunct Professors: Jobs Are Low on Pay and Health Benefits With High COVID Risk

  If colleges move forward with in-person instruction for the coming semester, adjunct professors will likely play a greater role in teaching students in the classroom. But they often have little institutional support — in terms of health insurance or other benefits — even during this public health crisis.