faculty labor

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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.