On the Ethics of Employing Adjunct Faculty.

Autor/in	Seibert, Charles H.
Titel	On the Ethics of Employing Adjunct Faculty.
Quelle	(1996), (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Adjunct Faculty; Community Colleges; Employment Patterns; Ethics; Faculty College Relationship; Higher Education; Job Satisfaction; Part Time Employment; Personnel Policy; Substitute Teachers; Two Year Colleges + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Ethik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Part-time employment; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Personalpolitik; Substitute teacher; Temporary teacher; Temporary teachers; Aushilfslehrer
Abstract	At many higher education institutions, there is increasing reliance on the services of part-time, instead of full-time, faculty. This article presents critical information on the ethics of employing these adjunct faculty, a trend that is especially prominent in community colleges. The paper's introduction discusses adjunct wages, working conditions, hiring agreements, and benefits. Section 2 presents ethical objections to the use of adjuncts, with subsections that set the stage for more specific arguments, coached in economic terms, against the policy of adjunct employment. Section 3 suggests a limited use of adjuncts that might be acceptable, and section 4 considers other issues concerning the use of adjuncts, such as cost implications, effects of eliminating adjuncts on the tuition structure, effects of heavy reliance upon adjuncts, and the governance implications of a large adjunct teaching force. (AS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01